Even if they'll never vote for us, because we refuse to pursue policies of actively imposing their views on everybody, it may be possible, through offering respectful dialog, to undermine, in many of them, the sense that we're actually evil -- that we want their teen daughters to have abortions, that we want to steal their bibles, etc. Make it harder for the GOP agents at the pulpit to perpetuate a picture of Democrats that is totally unhinged from reality, and it gets harder for the GOP to motivate their base to send in checks, show up at the polls, etc.
We need a fifty-state strategy -- we need Democrats to be visible in heavily Republican, red-state communities, to make it harder to demonize us.
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Date: 2006-05-16 05:16 pm (UTC)We need a fifty-state strategy -- we need Democrats to be visible in heavily Republican, red-state communities, to make it harder to demonize us.