Reply #55: The shift to the "left" (which, imho, is actually "right") on gun control [View All]

[w4rma]

within the Democratic Party is a loser. The Democratic Party MUST lose the label of gun control. Gun control just ticks off rural folks to the point where they do not hear any other issue. Lose the issue. It's lost anyway and the Democratic Party should have never been fighting for removing gun rights. These folks have to be willing to listen to Democrats to vote for Democrats. Removing more gun control from the Democratic Party agenda will help Dems in rural areas talk to other folks openly about Democrats.

God is an issue that NATIONAL Democrats need to learn how to talk about. Wear God on your sleeve as President Carter did and how Bush does. The Democratic base in the Northeast and West needs to allow national Democrats to talk about God and Christianity. The Democratic base needs to let this happen so that rural Christians who are only rarely exposed to other religions and are taught to be intolerant of them by their peers will LISTEN to national Democrats again as they did with FDR.

Abortion is basically gone. Girls will have to die by the coathanger, in America, before rural folks start to rethink that issue again. That, their intolerance of gays and their indignity about sex are pretty much all that Repugs have to point at on morals. The Repug leadership is immoral, according to their own definitions, in every way if you remove those 3 issues.

You can't give in to the big corporates because they are the folks behind the Republican Party pushing them and covering for them. They are the true base of the Republican Party. They are the folks who need to be pushed out of power even more than the the Repukes do. If they fall, then the Repukes fall (but not neccessarily vice versa).

You can't give in on fighting against voter fraud because without a fair vote, issues do not matter. You can't give in on tactical issues, ever. Anything and everything that degrades our democracy must be fought at because we will never get back into power under a dictatorship without a civil war.