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And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

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Everyone wants the fucking magic bullet. What you need is leadership that organizes people and moves things bit by bit in a better direction. It's about building a movement. Not flipping a switch.

Not shouting at you, sorry if came across as such. Pretty up to my neck with both the “strongly worded statement” people and the “shouting do something” but don’t have any ideas people in equal measure.

I respect you (Collins not as much) but: 1. You are both underestimating the effects of the asymmetrical media environment. 2. What "worked" with the Epstein situation (the files have still not been fully released) and for Mamdani might not work everywhere.

Oh no! So because one thing won't work everywhere in every situation it's okay for our leading Democrats to do nothing? Come on. Don't be ridiculous

That’s the biggest idiocy of @schumer.senate.gov and the Dem leadership. They treat public opinion as static and don’t attempt to do anything to affect it. That’s why he’s still talking about cost of living as Trump openly defies the Epstein law and invades sovereign nations.

"a skilled politician can present information (factual or false) in a way that helps to shape public opinion on various topics. This is something that Republican politicians apparently understand and that Democratic politicians demonstrably do not" medium.com/@ZhiZhu/stro... #Politics #Memes #US

This is one of the most interesting things about listening to history podcasts or reading books like Nixonland. Once upon a time politicians in the minority party could at least move the needle by drawing attention to something. I get that the media atmosphere is fundamentally different now, but…