What the party needs to do, plain and SIMPLE:

[Garrett78]

28. As I said, Dems can't control what other people believe.

Dems have made it abundantly clear that gun control isn't about banning guns. But people are going to believe what they're going to believe. Like you said, "it doesn't matter that it's not true." Consider the following examples:

1) http://www.alternet.org/story/148826/16_of_the_dumbest_things_americans_believe_--_and_the_right-wing_lies_behind_them

2) http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/you-think-you-knew-crazy-think-again-10-shockers-increasingly-unhinged-right

One more example: a survey was taken in Louisiana asking who was most responsible for the government's poor response to Hurricane Katrina. More people blamed Obama than Bush. If you know when Katrina took place, you'll recognize the absurdity of that. But that's the sort of thing Dems are dealing with.

If the vast majority were working from a set of agreed-upon facts, there'd still be disagreement over causes of and proper responses to those facts. But in this age of 24/7 infotainment, millions of people flat out deny facts and live in an alternate reality. There isn't much to be done about that.