General Discussion

and numerous democracy-supporting civil rights organizations are doing a lot. Tonight many Dems used signs on their shirts or hands to make statements that bypassed media censorship and even possibly caused a few of those who don't follow politics but happened to tune into this to wonder about what's going on with Medicaid.

Could they be talking more clearly and forcefully in many cases? Probably yes, but some really aren't naturally effective communicators. Few have the verbal gifts of an AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and some others, or the presence.

Are the media giving them a platform to speak? Quite often, media doesn't unless maybe local media when they're back home. But a lot of local TV stations are owned by Sinclair and others with a conservative agenda, and I suspect they don't get a platform there either.

BTW, Elissa Slotkin's response to the president's speech was terrific. Clear, and made the point that this administration's change has been chaotic, that Elon Musk called Social Security a Ponzi scheme when it was most American's retirement plan that they'd earned.