Why are we so gullible?

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24. We should anticipate and defuse their misdirecting, false arguments before they even think

of them. As you said, they've been doing this for 25 years (I agree -- at least 25 years) and we keep falling for it by engaging after they make their argument, at which point it's already too late -- we are already on the defensive.

We don't need to challenge them on what they say. We can easily predict what they are going to say. Just think of every conceivable red herring and craft a simple message to counter it; undermine it before its even been stated. We need to bury their arguments before they've already said them. We need an arm in the Democratic Party that is dedicated solely to messaging and getting preemptive messaging in place before we even roll our policy proposals out. When re we going to do that. We've been talking about it for at least 10 years.