Reply #118: they won't

[William Z. Foster]

Don't worry about that.

The reason we should not "go for showing off how compassionate our party can be" is because that is a sales job, which people hate, and because it insults people's intelligence.

Tel the truth and talk about where we want to go. You will deprive the Republicans of far, far more votes that way then you will by trying to sell the Democratic party to people. I speak from decades of experience canvassing.

Here is the truth - the people telling you that you must be "loyal" to the party in this particular way do not care about the success of the party. It is all a smokescreen for an effort to drive the party to the right and get us all to go along with that. They are not being honest. They are trying to scare you into supporting their conservative political agenda.

We push the agenda, and the politicians follow, not the other way around. That is how it has always been, and always will be.