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I legitimately believe that a winning strategy for the left is reverse psychology.
Loudly announce being "socialist" and just promote bad, or even just existing ideas claiming "we can't let the Conservatives prevent us from x".
The run your real candidates on "anti socialist" platforms
No, actually what you should do is run a good socialist platform. Mamdani and his great governance has done more to fix the perception of socialism in the US than any reverse psychology tricks would ever do.
Mind fucking, rhetorical tricks, and newspeak are a considerable part of what got us into this mess. Socialism as a political and economic philosophy is a great starting point for undoing the damage wrought by hierarchical domination, we ought to be up front and honest about what it means. Let the socialists define it on their terms, and then put their money where their mouth is when the time comes
Go MAGA, go broke!
Gas prices are up! VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET
It's not reverse psychology, it's being for the People. Democrat leadership works for their corporate owners, a lot of the same one that equally fund Republicans. That's the difference between them and Mamdani.