Democrats and their agenda got a well-deserved spanking last November as did gun control addicts. That’s not a shock: I don’t ever recall seeing the party’s platform more divorced from its traditional base.
The Democrats’ key weaknesses were crime, violence, and Second Amendment rights. Of course, reducing public safety by coddling criminals and urban terrorists while defunding police at the same time as you are pushing gun control to cripple citizens’ abilities to defend themselves is not exactly a winning message. One could make things worse by fomenting hysteria about nonexistent epidemics of gun violence, so that’s exactly what they did.
Politico reports Giffords, House Majority Forward, and pollster Global Strategy Group are working on a new messaging strategy. They’re using one of gun control’s favorite tools: The Big Lie.
Explained by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf and used to great advantage by Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984, the Big Lie is simple in theory and can be remarkably effective: If you’re going to lie, make it a big lie; repeat it often enough to overwhelm any opposition: Over time, the public will accept it as truth.
In February 2019, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion conducted a poll of 880 American adults. The Marist Poll was sponsored by National Public Radio (NPR) and the PBS Newshour and was intended to gauge public support for various gun control measures. It was released on the first anniversary of the Parkland mass shooting.
Click the link to read the whole article: Democrats and Gun Control Lobby Double Down
No comments:
Post a Comment