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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (378353)	7/25/2018 10:14:30 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541077

Don't know where to start. Can't tell whether you've deliberately misread me or just using it as a debating ploy. For clarity's sake then, you should know I'm not debating. Just offering my views. On the last point first, that I'm only interested in winning (which is a very cheap shot even on the minimal evidence of that post alone let alone the history of my posting, so I read that as simply a cute debating point, definitely not serious) and thus should switch parties as one or the other wins, that's just nonsense. It's obviously quite important to almost all of us here that the Dems win for two reasons--to end this threat to democratic institutions that Trump and the present incarnation of the Rep party embody. And, second, to do any number of essential things to improve the lives of the bulk of the population. As for the Dems having an overall message, I've argued, repeatedly, that while it's a good idea it's extremely unlikely to occur until there is a single messenger. And that definitely won't occur before the 2018 elections. In the meantime the best strategy for the Dems is to emphasize local issues within a large umbrella of national issues, the bulk of which I laid out in that post. You might want to read those again.