Out of My Mind

This guy has ten fairly good reasons why the Dems are doomed to failure and that's with leaving out the lack of any message and any clue to having any message although he alludes to a God-waful inability to communicate although it's far deeper than that.

CENK UYGUR

Lessons Learned from the Alito Fight

1. There is no organization on the left side of the political spectrum.
2. The reason they will lose every fight is because every issue is settled the minute it is framed.
3. Once the Republican framing goes unchallenged, the media repeats it as if it is fact.
4. The easy next step is to do a poll (sometimes by completely biased polling groups like Rasmussen and sometimes by legit polling organizations). The poll will show that the public supports the Republican position by a slight majority.
5. Shove the poll in the Democrats face and tell them that they have no hope of winning and that the public is against them.
6. When the Democratic representatives start to cave in, quiver and repeat the same talking points used against them....
7. At which point, the base of the Democratic Party -- otherwise known as the people who voted them into office -- gets pissed.
8. Then the Republicans point disapprovingly and tell the Democrats that their own base is crazy, radical and can't be trusted. If they "pander" to their base, they will lose all the mythical Republicans who vote for them in red states.
9. Final result is that the Democrats have been sorely outplayed. They have switched positions in the middle and criticized their own stance and their own voters.
10. Democrats sink further and further into a hole and come out convinced they have to work harder at appealing to the "middle" in the next elections.

Them's just his points. Whole piece is here.