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2016 Postmortem

morningfog

(18,115 posts) Tue Mar 15, 2016, 02:29 PM Mar 2016

"Love trumps hate" is a bad slogan, regardless of its origin.

It has various meanings, but one is "To love Trump's hate." Trump's hate is well known. We should not, even by mistaken interpretation, advocate loving that hate.

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"Love trumps hate" is a bad slogan, regardless of its origin. (Original Post) morningfog Mar 2016 OP

Agreed. It's extremely poor messaging. revbones Mar 2016 #1

So once it has been determined that HRC didnt steal it from BS, its a crappy phrase GusBob Mar 2016 #2

I have no idea what you're on about. morningfog Mar 2016 #4

Try "Love overcomes hate" and "We shall overcome"...nt k8conant Mar 2016 #3

revbones

(3,660 posts)

1. Agreed. It's extremely poor messaging.

Reply to morningfog (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 02:34 PM

Mar 2016

Take Trump personally out of it. The message is overwhelmingly positive right? Love is always better than hate.

Now, you take an overwhelmingly positive message, and you slap your opponents name right in the middle of it. I get that it's supposed to mean that Love will triumph over Trump's Hate - but that requires more thought and even then preaches to the choir.

For those not politically active or astute, I feel it will just increase Trumps own messaging.