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Originally Posted by heyjoe
Even getting your base core of support out is going to be less and less effective as time goes on. its time to change tactics and broaden that base.
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Broaden that base? How? By taking in people who only support a little gun control so we have more numbers?
But let’s say we can broaden our base to stalwart, no-compromise 2A voters - except they won’t vote for stalwart, no-compromise 2A politicians because they don’t like those politicians views on koala immigration or the burgeoning tortoise employment gap. And in the party that does share their views, there are ZERO no-compromise 2A politicians because they are primaried with put of state money and hamstrung by leadership until they lose.
“Broadening your base” means a generations-long effort of reaching out to every possible ally you can knowing that well over 90% of them are going to be a waste of time and oxygen. And its a great strategy; but people should understand it isn’t an overnight one. The first part of “broadening the base” is revitalizing the 2A in both parties so that people who do support the 2A have choices. Look at where we are now in the White House, not an ideal choice from a 2A perspective; but pretty much the only one that was left from a 2A perspective.
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thumping your chest and threatening civil war isnt going to get it done. And its not just virginia.
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That’s never going to get anything done. Not the least because 98% of those people threatening civil war can’t even be bothered to do basic political legwork as a volunteer; but they are suddenly going to become an outlaw and live in the cold and damp while being hunted like animals? They’re just another variety of LARPer.