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In reply to the discussion: What do Dems need to do to win the rural vote [View all]gulliver
(13,180 posts)A lot of our problem has to do with the Republicans being able to lie about us with impunity. For example, they'll lie and say that "defund the police" or "open borders" or "woke" are our positions. But they're not our positions. The vast majority of Dems ignore (at best) or outright oppose all of those. Rural votersin fact all voters need to know that.
We need to find a way to make sure our image matches our beliefs in proportion to one-person-one-vote. We shouldn't be afraid to harshly criticize, oppose, and disown ideas like the above when almost no one with democratically legitimate standing in the Dem Party espouses them. Reproductive freedom, equality, opportunity, and action on climate change, Dem core values that nearly all Dems support, shouldn't ever be weighed in the balance with unelected-to-anything Joe Random spouting off about defunding the police. It's simple respect for democracy.