Would democrats do better if they changed the name to "Republican+"?

[Jonny Appleseed]

I have a feeling that people are primarily voting against the name. If you ask republican voters their stances on individual issues (climate change, healthcare, helping the poor, path to citizenship for child immigration, even foreign policy sometimes) they mostly lean left. They vote against buzzwords, not actual policies. They're low information voters that see republican and think "'merca" and see democrat and think "commie hippy", and they themselves don't know why. The rightwing media has created Pavlovian dogs and that is why dog whistles are so effective.

I think planned parenthood would also benefit from a name change. This may just be the solution. If we can't stop their lies and propaganda, we need to stop the cognitive association that the propaganda grinds into republican voter's neural pathways.

[demmiblue]

1. Unrec.

[dalton99a]

2. And Republicans would retaliate by changing to "Republican++"

[Caliman73]

3. Doubleplus good! NT

[lpbk2713]

4. Just a thought ...

It might not be a bad idea for a relative newbie to
use the "sarcasm" emoticon from time to time.

[Jonny Appleseed]

5. Or you could use context clues