{"id":4142,"date":"2025-08-06T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:27:06","slug":"the-democrats-find-their-clear-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4142","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Find Their &#8220;Clear Message&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/clearmessage\/clearmessage300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/clearmessage\/clearmessage650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"865\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to have to confess<\/strong> to having gone for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpm.org\/news\/2025-07-31\/the-democratic-party-is-still-trying-to-figure-out-its-message-after-2024s-defeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Democrats need a clear message&#8221;<\/a> horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical anvil fell on my head from the top of a metaphorical skyscraper and I suddenly realized that oh, f&#8217;crissake, the Democratic Party has been giving me a <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/blogs-and-newsletters\/tap\/2025-02-19-how-about-a-daily-democratic-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great big loud-ass and clear message<\/a> since at least 1996, when Ralph Nader first ran on the Green Party ticket, and<a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2025\/07\/lawmakers-pressure-trump-on-gaza-aid-as-support-for-israel-craters-among-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> that clear message is \u2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11 x 15 inch high-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/clearmessage\/clearmessage300dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 2mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the &#8220;Democrats need a clear message&#8221; horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical anvil fell on my head from the top of a metaphorical skyscraper and I suddenly realized that oh, f&#8217;crissake, the Democratic Party has been giving me a great big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,168,132],"tags":[1501,1210,977,167,944,1502],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-media","category-palestine","category-party-animals","tag-2028-elections","tag-aoc","tag-buttigieg","tag-gaza","tag-midterms","tag-raskin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}