The Professional Left Is Handing Republicans Precisely What They Want

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75. NO! not if people stop advertising to the opposition that they will weaken the Democrats' positions

by refusing to vote, by not volunteering, or not donating, or not making phone calls, nor writing letters to the editor.

Maybe some people think those kinds of threats against the Democrats result in compliance. This is politics; they result in the opposite of what you might think threats do, because the opposition can see right up front that Democrats are losing support, so all the opposition has to do is wait.

Publicly threatening ALL of the other issues for a single issue only contributes to likely defeat on your single issue and damage to all of the others, especially when that grandstanding is accompanied by inactivity in any of the other responsibilities of ISSUES (and yes each person should make that PLURAL, not single issue, politics) activism.

It's not just BS to shoot of your mouth with threats against Democrats; it's doubly suspect when a person doesn't do any of the work of facilitating development on the issues, does nothing but tear things down, much to the pleasure of Republicans, and blame others.