FogBlueInSanFran
Well-Known Member
How are you going to do this if people believe "alternative facts"?And that is why winning the argument, changing the perception is vitally important for the Democrats according to the experts.
This has been a theme for nearly a decade with Trump, and, writ large now given that it's enslaved to him, the GOP as a whole. They lie. And lie and lie and lie and lie. Then they lie about lies. Then they make up a new lie once their previous lie is disproven, and then continue to lie about the old lie, until the old lie becomes a new lie. Rinse and repeat. Or rather, befoul and muddy.
What was the stat? Trump told 38,000 public lies in his four years as President I think?
How does one compete with a a foe with literally no moral center, no accountability for the truth? You can't. You either get down there with them and give up your moral center, or you keep repeating the truth over and over and hope eventually it wins.
I understand politics is perception. But Democrats are playing a football match without a referee, and Trump et al willing to break every conventional rule to win. I'm not sure what else Democrats can do.
I've used this quote before, from The Usual Suspects, about Keyser Soze, a man of incarnate evil: "You just need the will to do what the other guy won't." If you're willing to give up truth to win, and the other guy isn't, you have a pretty good chance of winning. Which is why the election is as close as it is -- and why that itself baffles the vast majority of observers here, who have moral centers.
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