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4. It comes down to how the truth and the facts are not the same thing
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 06:37 PM
Feb 2021

It is to their advantage when we, the voters, accept what we are told as being the truth. Take for example the insurgents at the Capitol. We are not told that very few that were there were indigent, uneducated, and receiving some type of handout from the government. But that is how they've been portrayed for the last so many years so it's what we believe. In actuality they are the opposite. Take Alfie Oakes for example. Here is the owner of a $30 million grocery store with two government contracts alone totaling close to $100 million. He paid for two busses to D.C. on the 6th. It wasn't the homeless that he invited to join him. Yet he tells his followers that it they have to fight against the elite that are holding them back.

The bottom line is we can't fight on narratives that they control. We also can't fight someone's beliefs. We can win support by showing that the democratic party has solutions for the real issues in your life and not waste time tilting at windmills.

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