The Art of Messaging, Real or Imagined.

Is the Democratic Party run by real people or just some amalgamated artificial intelligence?  That is my question today. 

For the past 20-years or so we’ve routinely seen the politicians and their media support use common talking points that seem to magically appear out of nowhere.  This weekend we saw another example as at least three prominent Democrats tweeted out their “personal” reaction to the bombings of Christian Churches and Western hotels in Sri Lanka.  In all three cases, the Christians were referred to as “Easter Worshippers”

Of course, this fired up their political opposition with comparisons of the language used to condemn the killings in the Mosque in New Zealand where the shooter was condemned for killing Muslim worshippers. 

It is now a fairly common assumption by the conservative right the DNC is moving away from any support for Christians, while apparently strengthening its support of the Islamic faith. For those outraged twitterites, the use of “Easter Worshipper” is just another in a long line of examples of how far and how fast the Democratic party is moving away from caring about people who hold Jewish and/or Christian beliefs.

As for me, I am left wondering how the brain trust/communication command post of the DNC can so quickly put out the right talking points so spokesman like Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Julián Castro can align their messaging with the current politically approved talking points.

Republicans, on the other hand, seem to have just the opposite problem.  Some idiot State Senator will say something stupid about nurses while talking about a proposed state law, which would affect a few thousand people in her state, and the whole of worldwide social media will explode in condemnation and a campaign of vilification will take off like an out of control fireworks display.

So much for a peaceful Easter.