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Input: So I know right off the bat this sounds bad, but hear me out here. 

My older brother, let's call him Thomas, is planning to run for the House as a Republican. He's also gay. He's semi-open, basically he doesn't hide it from closer friends and family, but the average person he kinda knows doesn't know.

I've heard through the grapevine that he's considering me in a key role for the campaign, maybe as manager. This is because I'm a doctoral student in psychology, and specifically I'm researching how people get their political views, how they decide who to vote for, how they justify changing parties without feeling like an idiot, etc. This is extremely convenient and useful for Thomas, since he's trying to get elected. 

Anyway, he's been hitting me up for advice and all that. Since he's running as a Republican, in a pretty conservative, very Baptist area, my first question was how open he was going to be with being gay. He replied he was going to be open with it and bring it up, saying he was hoping it could get some swing voters. I think this is a terrible idea, for a few reasons:

1. You're not going to get swing voters just for being gay if, like Thomas, you're also Baptist, pro-guns, anti-regulation, and anti-drugs. So the whole idea of being gay getting swing voters is stupid. 

2. It isolates his core bloc, which is again, Conservative Baptists. Thomas believes that they won't care if he's gay if he shares their views. I know this is *false*. Conservatives can and will basically flip their views on him the moment they find he's gay, and no matter what he says, they'll tune him out with 'gay, gay, gay, sin, sin, sin'.

So, I asked if he wanted my honest advice. He said sure. I asked him, are you intent on running as a conservative Baptist rather than a Moderate? Because as a gay moderate, he *may* have a chance. He affirmed he did want to run as a conservative Baptist. I told him then, honestly, don't be open about being gay. Hide it, if you really want to win. 

He got offended at this. I can see where he's coming from. But 1) he said he wanted my honest opinion and 2) in the long run, I think giving him a fighting chance will make up for offending him now.

So, aita?

telling my brother to hide that he's gay