david robertsI will keep repeating this until I die: the Democrats had the opportunity to put their entire agenda into a legislative proposal & the result was the original Build Back Better act. If you want to know what the real Democratic agenda is, no need to speculate -- it's on paper.
Nothing "woke," nothing about CRT in schools or drag shows, just a long series of proposals to improve child & elder care, improve wages & working conditions, improve health care, & accelerate the growth of domestic clean-energy industries. Meat & potatoes.
And yet! The phantom "Democrat agenda" that RW media ascribes to Democrats gets *more discussion* in media than the real one. Average news consumers, if asked to describe that agenda, will think vaguely of trans people in HS sports or cancelling offensive comedians.
This is a failure of the MSM, especially cable news. It's a failure of the Democratic Party to build an effective communications machine. But above all it's a triumph of RW propaganda -- perhaps its most important triumph. They really don't want voters to know what Dems will do.
Oh, and it's also a failure of "centrist" pundits, who passively let RW propagandists tell them what the Dem agenda is. They then turn around & lecture Dems that Dems ought to be doing more of the stuff *that was in Dems' signature legislative proposal*.
Anyway, you wanna know what Dems will do with power, look at the original BBB: health care & drug costs, child & elder care, unions & working conditions, wages & vacation/sick leave, more clean energy. That may not get as many clicks as culture war shit, but it's the real thing.
Tom Bellin 
@drvolts "Democrats say they want to make life better for all Americans. Republicans say they want to install Donald Trump as a fascists dictator in the model of Hitler. But when in power both parties show a similar lack of cohesion when it comes to implementing their stated priorities."
Lizrdeb@drvolts Rupert Murdoch and his enablers in the senate
Runner@drvolts Since the midterms I’d love to see Stacy Abrahms and Beto O’roarke go to work for the DCCC.
Rep. Steven Woodrow@drvolts even local news doesn’t like talking about D accomplishments or plans. It’s all crime tsunami! Inflation!
Imagine if the last 20 years of war were covered like the final 20 hours.
MarlaHK@drvolts It is mostly the latter. When I think about the recent $1 billion gift to Leonard Leo, on top of the $ already sloshing around RW orgs, I shudder. Dems don't have that kind of centralized messaging org and $ to back that up. We've got our work cut out for us.