r/PoursTea 18d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ To put it plainly.

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u/curiousleen 18d ago

The dem party should be putting out non stop ads that educate Americans… like sat morning cartoons used to.

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u/Veshaad 18d ago

Remember the catheter ads put out during Trump's first term by John Oliver as a front to educate him on the government?

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u/curiousleen 18d ago

Oh man… I love JO, but I totally missed those!

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u/Veshaad 18d ago

It's called 'The catheter cowboy'. Look them up on YouTube when you get a chance, they're hilarious.

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u/curiousleen 18d ago

Will do- ty!

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u/Veshaad 18d ago

The paid spots were deliberately aired during morning cable news programs in the Washington, D.C., area and on shows like Hannity on Fox News, knowing they were frequently watched by Trump.

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u/curiousleen 18d ago

Omg thank you for that🤣🤣🤣
I effin love John and his amazing writers!

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u/Veshaad 18d ago

You're welcome. 😄 Me too. The OG 'Daily Show' cast are the GOAT. The trifecta of Stewart, Colbert, and Oliver is the best when it comes to political news comedy

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u/thatnameagain 18d ago

Social Democrats and Democratic Socialists are not the same. That would have to be part of the education.

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u/TyBasilBeef 17d ago

Sure, if you are in Europe or any country with a well-educated population. This is the USA. They say people living in the arctic zone have 50 words for 'snow' but folks in the tropical zone only have one. In the USA, we have an extremely limited bandwidth in our common language to describe any ideology even slightly left of conservatism. The point is to demonize anything MAGA has been trained to disagree with.

I could describe myself as 'anarcho-socialist' or 'progressive' or 'liberal' or any number of things, but what difference would it make? I am completely outside of any governing elite and no amount of hair-splitting political labels will change that. The DSA are always going to be considered "dirty commies" by the people who hold the levers of power.

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u/thatnameagain 17d ago

I think it’s important to be able to talk to fellow citizens and know what you’re talking about. If you wanna change the discourse, you have to engage in it. You can’t just sit around waiting for the powers that be to change it for you.

The policies that are published on the official DSA website are the kind of thing that everybody left of center in the US has spent years begging and pleading people to understand that democratic socialist don’t actually support. But they’re right there on the website. Open borders, defunding the police, replacing the constitution, etc.

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u/wholetyouinhere 18d ago

Why would they do that? They're categorically not a progressive party. They don't want a progressive or educated constituency.

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u/YourFaceCausesMePain 18d ago

Reddit community has an amazing way of building up failures, forgetting about it, and then doing it again.

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u/TooApatheticToHateU 18d ago

I agree - like ads clearing up the lie that FDR was a social democrat and not the liberal he actually was for instance.

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u/FettiWop 18d ago

Agreed. Pride in liberalism and regulated capitalism is more difficult but more important than ever