What Will The Democrats' Platform Be In 2020?

[Belsnickel]

(06-13-2019, 04:22 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: And do they have a prayer, if they even come together enough to find a capable candidate?

Trump's bringing manufacturing jobs back from other countries, the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in a long time, 4 million jobs have been created since he was elected, unemployment among minorities is reaching record lows, 4.6 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since Trump was elected, Trump signed in the largest package of tax cuts in history, women's unemployment rates have reached lows they haven't seen in over 50 years, and there's a lot more things he's done as POS.

So, my question is, what will platform will Democrats run on?

Will they just hope that all these millennials that ***** in these videos online about how they're oppressed will register to vote and the rest of the population will forget how good they have it?

Will they find one thing Trump has done, like giving states the right to ban abortion, and run with it and hope enough women vote against it without realizing that their own state banned it?

What issue or issues can the Democrats possibly hope to exploit to get a win in the 2020 election?

First I had to laugh, heartily, at the Freudian slip in bold. Which helped with digesting this Kool-Aid laden diatribe.

The decrease in unemployment is a meaningless figure because the trend was already in place before Trump even announced his candidacy. This is a long term trend, not something Trump is responsible for. The same can be said for the reduction in SNAP recipients as the trend line we are seeing for that hasn't really changed since 2010.

As for manufacturing jobs coming back, that may be true, but other jobs have abandoned our shores to avoid tariff issues. Focusing on those numbers is cherry-picking the data.

The tax cuts aren't popular outside of the die-hard base. Most Americans aren't too fond of them, and they have dug our country into even more debt as revenues have declined at the Treasury.

So, really, all of the things that Trump has to run on aren't that great. But Democrats aren't going to try to convince folks like you of this, because you aren't going to listen. They're going to focus on people who like to look at evidence, reason, and logic in order to make decisions. They will also need to energize their base, because they didn't turn them out in 2016. Clinton didn't excite the voters. Most important, though, is the narrative that people in the Rust Belt aren't better off right now than they were pre-Trump. He hasn't fulfilled his promises, all while being one of the most corrupt administrations in our history, using the office to line his own pockets and those of his friends. He ran on a populist message and then turned into the typical fat cat right away. That is the narrative to win back the Obama-Trump voters, the ones that felt abandoned by the Democratic party.