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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese
Yeah, you're right, but boil it down more, actually run on that platform, and commit to it. I think those are some areas that are lacking. Like the GOP signed a pledge to never raise taxes, and they run on that pledge. We should be doing that with actual good policies.
Grover Norquist made a pretty cogent argument about why this works better for Republicans than for Democrats. Republicans always want government to do less so that they can cut your taxes. What do you know about the candidate running? Does coke? Hits his wife? Molests kids? Maybe, maybe not, but you know he DEFINITELY wants the government to do less and cut your taxes. When you start advocating that there are things that the government is supposed to do, like universal health care, paid leave, or a higher minimum wage, you have to put together a plan to accomplish it, and then you need specifics, and then your opponents can pretty much say that the specifics are whatever they want. When we put together Obamacare, Republicans were running around saying that it included death panels, and human experimentation, and who the hell knows what else, and people believed it because it's impossible to prove that that stuff isn't among the things that the bill wants to do.