I am going to put this out quickly. I must take my son to the dermatologist today, so I will make this brief. I will add updates to it, when I have time (as it is not full of my complete thoughts on the subject, yet).
Your highfalutin words are not helping the Democratic Party, not helping Democratic Party members win elections, and not producing anything tangible to solve the issues of the day (see: Anthropogenic Global Climate Change). A lot of people on this site are producing a lot of comments and diaries about language, “taking the higher road”, &c., but all this activity is useless. Here you sit, in your comfortable bubble, patting each other on the back over your clever essays, and your exhaustive articles on this or that issue — as if you were writing a term paper for your professor. All your erudite nonsense is achieving nothing, except a self-congratulatory masturbation fest. You are in a bubble, the same as Faux News viewers. When will you come out of it? What will you do? How do you propose to win over minds? How do you propose to win elections? With ponderous diatribes on minutiae that most people have never heard of? Congratulations on preaching to the choir year after year. What next?
Update: I told you what works. If you want to reach people, no amount of erudite lectures is going to help you. You need to appeal to the visceral reaction. You wanna’ know if it works? Look at the elections over time. Look at the successes of the GQP. Look at how they throw red meat and win.
You wanna’ win? Take the military away from the GQP. Explain how, even with all their cheerleading for decades, they have never supported the military. Show the damage they did to veterans and military families. Make the cuts front and center on campaign ads.
You wanna’ win? Talk to the everyman. Your lectures on here, and talking down to everyone, constantly, is not helping us win. Learn to address issues. Learn to make appropriate soundbites. Hell — there is so much red meat out there now — so many Democratic ads already written for them by Republicans, all they need to do is use that fodder. Democrats don’t want to win.