Image: The Three Stooges, NBC via Wiki Commons in Public Domain
Image: The Three Stooges, NBC via Wiki Commons in Public Domain
Trump and his cronies could not be happier with the DNC right now. Their incompetence and misdirected attention for the past year and half could spell the death of this country and our Constitution. Time for a change, and a big one.
There is a principle in managing any group that is critical to its success, but this data is not very well known. And is apparently a complete surprise to the DNC.
That principle is that external influences and factors are not a direct cause of a company’s or group’s success or failure. The direct causes of success or failure always rest with the management and members of any given organization. Sure external factors and pressures can create problems for any group. But it is how they respond that counts, not the fact that the pressure happened.
The much—and deservedly so—maligned “autopsy” released by the DNC about the loss of the 2024 election fails completely to recognize this principle.
Sorry, Ken Martin, et al, but nothing Trump and his Nazi fan club did or thought was the cause of your failure. This may sound harsh, but it is a hard fact. But until cold, hard facts are confronted head-on no management anywhere can pinpoint a cause. It takes humility and a willingness to self-examine one’s own actions to arrive at the real reasons and only that will open a door to solutions to remedy the problem.
The fact that this DNC report was even being considered is just sad.
Here’s a snippet of the report posted by D. Earl Stephens on his Substack blog:
DNC Report extract
Purely useless drivel. Chewing on cardboard or GrapeNuts cereal would be more entertaining and useful than this crap.
The scary thing about this report is that over one and half years later, it clearly demonstrates that the search for clues has not gotten past the “We lost, how the hell did that happen?” stage of investigation. And even worse ,Ken Martin and the DNC are not even close to looking internally where the cause really lives.
In the past 10 years, have you people learning nothing from Trump? Sure, he’s a psychotic criminal. Sure, he’s as corrupt as the day is long. But how much effective use have you made of these facts? None.
In case you missed it, and you did, demonstrably, Trump knows how to stoke fear and use it. He knows how to communicate with people who are deeply in fear of their livelihoods and futures. Even worse, these folks seem to be wiling to follow him straight into Hell, and they are willing to just follow along. If this doesn’t make sense to you, understood. But keep reading.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were perfect candidates who could have and would have moved the dial forward for the country. They were obviously enthusiastic and so were their boisterous and well-attended rallies. And guess what. That very enthusiasm did them in. That’s right. But wait there’s more.
Have you ever tried to communicate logically and enthusiastically with an angry or fearful person? Doesn’t work does it. What does? Anger, bluster, antagonism, etc. That’s right. Trump knows instinctively how to communicate to that section of the electorate that lives in the lower realms of emotions. So the messages of hope, future and enthusiasm towards them expressed by Harris and Walz were not even being received much less believed or understood.
And that, DNC management, is something you could have done something about and with. You couldn’t do anything about Trump’s blatant racism, “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats…” You could not do anything about a drug-addled Nazi donating nearly $300 million to Trump’s campaign.
But how you communicated to the members of Trump’s base was entirely under your control.
Trump and his cronies worked hard to paint Biden and then Harris into the corner created by James Carville’s famous line, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Oil companies and various other corporations hoping to benefit from Trump’s promise to gut regulations, raised prices so Trump could blame that inflation on Biden and Harris. But these guys also made money hand over fist doing this. And they bragged about it in shareholder meetings and quarterly earnings calls.
Did the Biden and Harris campaigns use any of this to generate any outrage at all? Not even close.
Both the Biden and Harris campaigns behaved like crash test dummies when this conspicuous corruption was obvious and visible. And the nation got slammed into a wall.
Trump has consistently gotten his way by lying to everyone angrily. Democrats at the national level tried to be level-headed and calm when it was exactly the wrong thing to do.
Here’s a clue for you all, the guy who yells the truth angrily is much more powerful in the end than the guy who lies with anger. The difference is the truth. And Trump is ecstatic to this day that the DNC has no idea about how to use this fact.
The collective thought agreement that taking the high road would be attractive to voters and save the day obviously missed the fact that the high road is also easier to fall off of.
We are in a fight for the very soul of this country. The GOP is firmly in charge of all three branches of the government and is following a blueprint, Project 2025, designed to turn it into a one-branch government ruled by a permanent dictator. This is where any ideas of politeness, decorum and feelings had better get tossed. The DNC has been ignoring the message of the reality pressing down on it: take the f*cking gloves off!
The fact that Trump is losing support is great news. But that does not necessarily translate to Democrats gaining it. And that is the game.
Incompetence now—when Trump and his cronies are actively working to stack the decks and take over elections and rob the country blind—starts to look more like complacency. And being complacent with treasonous activity being paraded in front of you is just being complicit which makes you part of the problem. You’re either in agreement with what is happening or too apathetic to raise a finger about it. Either way, to partially quote Mike Judge’s ever more relevant film, Idiocracy, a quote he borrowed from George S. Patton, “Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.”
There is an obvious replacement to Carville’s campaign tag line today, “It’s the corruption, stupid!”
Marty Kassowitz is co-founder of Factkeepers. As founder of Interest Factory and View360, he brings more than 30 years experience in effective online communications, social media management, and platform development to the site. He is a writer, designer, editor and long time observer of the ill-logic demonstrated by too many members of the species known as Mankind. After a long history of somewhat private commentary on a subject he totally hates: politics, Marty was encouraged to build this site and put up his own analyses as well as curate relevant content from other sources.
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