Thoughts from an Independent
Democrats - If you've been watching FOX News, you'll see and hear why the GOP has been successful in connecting with the American voter base. Consider the messages they've been pounding home:
Democrats want open boarders
Democrats want free stuff
Democrats are socialists
Democrats hate capitalism
Democrats want a welfare state
No serious political party of the left is offering concrete proposals for a truly borderless society, but then there's the āno human is illegal!,ā as the protest chant goes, the left is implicitly accepting the moral case for no borders or sovereign nations at all. The Dimocrat party of today is more and more adopting this leftist policy.
Joe Biden literally kicked off his presidency by ending all of the Trump-era border and immigration policies, and invited the world to flood in.
We see it continually with calls to 'abolish ICE', and hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets across this country continually harassing and obstructing our ICE personnel from performing their duties.
So no, the Dimocrat party will never say they are for 'open borders', but then they always fight attempts to secure it, as well as fight attempts for deportation.
By the way, you speak of 'dumbing the message down', then you promptly misspell 'borders'.
Dimocrats may or may not want 'free stuff', but they certainly are the ones who create and push for government programs, and they want other people to pay for them.
As for 'socialism', a recent Gallup poll shows that only 42 percent of Democrats viewed capitalism favorably, while 66 percent had a positive view of socialism. So while the Dimocrats today may not BE 'socialists', they certainly want it.
As for Dimocrats 'hating capitalism', see post above.
Do they want a 'welfare state' as you put it? They certainly have never met a government program that wasn't drop-dead gorgeous to them, so in order to punish the billionaire/millionaire class, they want at least a large segment of our society living in a 'welfare state'.