Democrats try moderating every election and it makes no difference. Sure if people are mad at Republicans, Dems win but it’s reactive. I am advocating for is actually putting forward a positive agenda, not “more money for cops” or means tested micro policies like this that 3 people qualify for
![[CNN.com article snippet] Yet to regain the majority, Democrats would need to run more competitively among White voters without a four-year college degree — the mostly widely accepted definition of the working class — than they typically have done in the Trump era.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x67wjnnylxhuxlhfcimudaet/bafkreif25mvpgcqxh6wqeivtanjnubzmso2ecnbvdydzpszbdq57tpbfg4)
![From True Detective, Detective Rust Cohle is in a police interrogation room, he’s telling a woman suspected of a heinous crime “if you get the opportunity, you should …” the end of the quote is [REDACTED]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x67wjnnylxhuxlhfcimudaet/bafkreia7xdqftlcghvdlc6ktjgy2v6d65tm72ificjgtpvidzovvuifqgm)
![Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting, usually used as a meme to indicate an unpopular truth.
[Wikipedia description]
Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen's announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down, was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol. Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease.
The blue-collar speaker wears a plaid shirt and suede jacket, with dirty hands and a darker complexion than others in attendance. The other attendees are wearing white shirts, ties and jackets. One of the men in the painting is holding a document that reveals a subject of the meeting as "a discussion of the town's annual report". Edgerton's youth and workmanlike hands are fashioned with a worn and stained jacket, while the other attendees appear to be older and more neatly and formally dressed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x67wjnnylxhuxlhfcimudaet/bafkreig2pteloeet5tbaplv5qa3jyccastlsp4hntsdiiyy7qog6ac6gqe)
