The False Left gives cowardly advice again:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-warned-deny-backing-apos-174505392.htmlDemocrats are reportedly being warned to deny that they favor "open borders" and "amnesty" on the thorny subject of immigration and the ongoing crisis at the southern border, as they gear up for what could be a difficult midterm fight for many candidates.
Politico reports that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is recommending strategies to endangered lawmakers as they hope to avoid a barrage of attacks from Republicans on a variety of issues from defunding the police to critical race theory, in addition to immigration.
Included in the documents Politico viewed were moves to rebut GOP talking points. The strategy reportedly included this tip: Democratic should deny support for "open borders or amnesty" and instead talk about their efforts to keep the border safe.
I will tell you exactly what this strategy will accomplish:
1) Rightists will not believe the denial and will keep voting Red.
2) Leftists will believe the denial and not bother to turn out to vote Blue.
3) Fence-sitters, whether or not they believe the denial, will conclude from the need for denial itself that open borders/amnesty are policies that even Blue politicians themselves are ashamed to admit support for, hence must be bad policies. Thus they will vote Red.
The True Left strategy is to proudly declare support for open borders/amnesty. Then:
1) Rightists will keep voting Red.
2) Leftists will bother to turn out to vote Blue.
3) Fence-sitters will conclude from the proud declaration of support that open borders/amnesty must be admirable causes. Thus they will vote Blue.
So long as the False Left keeps pushing the idea that leftist objectives are so shameful that they can only ever be promoted covertly, we will keep losing ground to rightism.