By John Johnson II johnjohnson0527@gmail.com
“Democracy, as a wretched slave ship, has brought us thus far. Rather than dismantling, is it not worth strengthening with morality and men of integrity so that its journey continues?” 10/5/23
Pollsters, behaving as political forecasters, are predicting that the Republican Party’s presidential nominee for the 2024 presidential election, will present turbulent adversarial challenges for President Joe Biden, who’s slated to be the democrats’ incumbent presidential nominee. Surely, no one should think that democrats are sitting on their laurels and crying woe is us. No! Democrats are launching a strategic offensive election plan, which includes registering tens of millions of voters with incorruptible integrity.
However, tens of millions of voters are insufficient to defeat the Republican Party’s presidential candidate even if it isn’t Trump. Remember, Hillary won the popular vote and still lost the election. Consequently, it’s necessary that democrats win both the popular vote as well as the electoral college votes.
For democrats to be victorious, they know they must also strategically plan to win over voters in the ten states with the highest electoral college votes, which includes Florida. Also, it’s important to broad cast that the major factors unraveling America’s democracy are Republicans’ lust for power, and their ideological beliefs in white supremacy.
Nevertheless, democrats’ strategy will be multifaceted and include the following: 1) registering more democratic voters than Republicans, 2) devising plans to ensure that voters take advantage of early voting and mail-in voting, 3) using celebrities, clergy, and sororities/fraternities to galvanize voters, 4) developing a unique slogan as well as adopting a song to rally voters, and 5) knowing that the political divide is over race, immigration, and the LGBTQ community.
For example, how should democrats use the strategic plan cited above, Knowing that Florida is a Red state? Rather than conceding Florida, the goal should be to at least turn it purple. This would require registering approximately 900,000, new voters to counter the 700,000, voters registered by Republicans since 2018. Additionally, this plan must be inclusive of strategies to motivate voters to go the polls, despite less-than-ideal conditions.
Further, the strategic election plan includes collecting and distributing sound demographic data, State’s political party affiliations, and knowledge of social issues to local/state democratic headquarters. Again, knowing the states with the highest electoral votes is vital. Of these ten states, 50% are Red, 40% are Blue, and 10% function as a Bellwether( Ohio).
Democratic strategists cannot and will not fail to identify social and political issues that can entice independents and Republican moderates to crossover and vote for Biden in 2024. In other words, every state requires continuous canvassing to recruit new voters. No voters should go unrecruited or left behind!
It’s true, America’s democracy remains divided. But, make no mistake, this division doesn’t split evenly. And even if it did, there’s no way that the Republican Party’s base of racists, anti-democracy and homophobic white nationals can and will overthrow this government. Former president Lincoln said it best, “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Democrats’ plan includes recruiting voters willing and ready to cast their ballots. Need the plan identify who are the targets? One would hope not!
The democrats’ plan will force the Republican Party and their base of anti-democratic white to abandon any further assaults against our democracy. The Democrats’ Strategic Election Plan will include recommendations to stop any of their wildest attempts to disrupt, steal, or overturn the 2024, presidential election.
This plan will identify measures to solicit help from the mega rich. They’ve benefited tremendously from our capitalistic society. More importantly, they’ve helped to make it stronger, safer, and more prosperous. Now more than ever, they’re needed to help defend and protect our democracy. Why should they risk nothing? Our brave men and women soldiers’ risk their lives protecting our democracy.
Is it not a shame that far too many of the mega rich remain silent or use their wealth to aid those attempting to dismantle America’s democracy? Yes, the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, the Waltons, the Mars family, Diane Hendricks and countless others must help shoulder the responsibilities for defending America’s democracy.
Lastly, democrats’ welcome all ideas for a better plan from anyone, even it’s just a better presentation of old ideas. Remember, democracy is under assault and surrender isn’t an option!
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
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