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“Low info” (black) voters just don’t know about all our great policies. This is a “communication” issue.

Democrats really are so fucking stupid. It’s never them that are wrong. It’s always the stupid voters

enjoy your dictator! We won't be fighting for you

Until the Dems address the different attitudes of black people based on class and faith he will bleed black support. The black people the administration touts like Amanda Gorman, Symone Sanders, Kamala etc. are a world apart from the middle and lower middle class black people in cultural attitudes, concerns, etc. When I seen irl how everyday black people speak to someone black whom they think is high upper middle class, there is so much distance between them it borders on no solidarity. Makes sense, since while most black people have had a relative in jail or have been in jail themselves, this applies to only 1/3 of college educated black people.

Unless you are a black humanities major from a college town a lot of broad brush "inclusivity" stuff falls on deaf ears, and when you finger wag at your base for antisemitism or even LGBTQ+ discrimination it's completely alien and unengaging to the average black American. A lot of black people even lean toward anti-PC attitudes, and there are shows like those on the Zeus Network made by/for middle class black people to mock inner city and poor black people in the same way that white supremacists and "telling it like it is" comedians mock. And that's not to mention the schism between Carribbean/African immigrants and black people descended from American slavery.

Basically, Dems at the top often have an unnuanced view about the black community that literally makes the party come off as more out of touch with that community than some Stonetoss Comics/Groypers. They need to actually honestly look at intracommunal relations and the warts and all of Black Americans and find a galvinizing message. I hate seeing Dems hedge and give into the right wing's framing on DEI/Affirmative Action type programs as "racist handouts" rather than proudly vowing to protect them for black people in a non-condescending way, cementing their necessity but also allowing some to opt out. I hate how white Dems are just looking for the right set of catchphrases to memorize and chide fellow whites for not reciting right, rather than finding rousing and reactionary-triggering comments that shore up support.

Black American groups that don't feel any kinship with one another WILL rally together to support Dems when the party's policy and advocacy are right. Hell, a lot of the anti-woke/anti-PC black people online started fighting fiercely with the crypto racists whom they usually align with, when it was announced that the next Assassins Creed game featured Yasuke--a real black samurai exemplifying welcomed black representation. If this Ubisoft reskinned slop marketing team can figure it out, and the Dems still collapse their black vote percentage this year, then they are losers and suckers just like the troops.

in bidenland if you say "he hasn't done anything" it's just met with incoherent screeching, so people have given up trying to convince the diehards of this and are going for the gentler "people haven't heard about all the things he's done" then letting the diehards walk directly into the pit of trying to lay out his accomplishments in a way people won't immediately gut-dismiss as hot air

Dems are just going to keep on repackaging "Biden's done a lot about x, people just aren't hearing about it", huh? I skimmed the entire article and didn't see one thing Biden has done.

Whether it’s material conditions or lack of communication, the democrats have shown they fail at basic political tasks. Why should anyone vote for people who can’t even play the game right?

I'm sick of this "they just don't know about all the great things (dem canidate/party) has done!" "Its a messaging problem/information gap."

These ghouls are the one suffering from an "information gap." The message being sent to them could not be more clear

“When you tell people ‘Here’s what the Biden administration has done,’ particularly related to issues the Black communities care about, people are really surprised”

Funny haw the article never tells you what these issues are then. I would imagine that's very relevant to the gripe repeated 40 times in the article

it was explained to me that having the support of Jim Clyburn, the 83 year old man at the top of the extremely gerrymandered 6th congressional district of South Carolina, was effectively the same as having the support of all people of color in the united states.

this was why Bernie Sanders had no chance at winning the general election in 2020 despite winning the first 3 primaries and we had to go with Biden (who had won zero primaries), because Biden had the support of Clyburn, the most powerful DNC power broker in South Carolina... which is like boasting about being the best bullfighter in all of Belgium.

are you implying that being a potent gatekeeper for the convoluted primary process might not translate to broad electoral support?

I think this time we're just going to see a record low turnout

Don't these fucking idiots know what we're doing for them?? The fuck are they complaining about??

bro I swear to god if people just knew about the tax credit, they'd forget all about palestine and the price of groceries and how unobtainable housing is

It's always pretty funny to me to see articles talking about how the Biden campaign just isn't doing a good job communicating what he's accomplished and then they don't say what he's accomplished. Like, come the fuck on. And the thing is I know he has actually done some things that are good and don't get mentioned ever. So yeah, they are genuinely doing a terrible job of campaigning even on their own terms, which are of course totally out of touch with what he electorate wants and cares about. I really am finding it hard to believe that they want to win at all. It's been misstep after misstep since before Biden was even inaugurated. What was the first visible thing democrats did after the election? They cut a chunk out of the check you were getting and tried to weasel out of admitting it. It has been that same tone and function ever since for everything they say publicly.

This piece complains about a "lack of communication" about bidens accomplishments and then goes on to list precisely none of them. Are we to suppose it's a case of not wanting to because theyre not worth mentioning or is it more a casually racist assumption by the writer that no black Americans read Politico?

Listen Jack, heres Bernie Mac to explain that Republicans won't make student loan debt any less whack, with the Inflation Reduction Act for infrastructure we have a fat stack

Now that I've rapped vote for me

Part of me wonders if the flood of "Biden is in trouble" articles are intentional cuz the Dems know nothing motivates people better than fear.