[extropy-chat] can't war protesters do better?

[Robert Lindauer]

Brian Lee wrote:

> I'm not trying to play nice liberal or anything like it. I'm just 
> saying that the way to convince people isn't by calling them idiots or 
> dumbfucks.


Maybe, maybe not.  When someone keeps hitting their hand with a hammer, 
one way of convincing them to stop is to call them stupid.  It's 
dishonest not to.

It's the old saying, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on 
me.  Well, "We won't get fooled again" as the potus in chief likes to say.

>
> The "Bush cheated" meme is pretty lame too. Bush won for various 
> reasons, but cheating isn't one of them.


Yes it is. 

The ACLU won its case against florida the first time, the state of 
florida was -convicted- of racially profiling voters in the 2000 
election.  Let's not forget that.

The second time, the number of voting irregularities were STAGGERING 
including many reports of unsupervised "technicians" modifying the 
voting equipment during the elections in Ohio, among other places.  Oh 
yes, and of course, the racial profiling thing happened again.

>
> I think there's an artifically created ideology gap between the left 
> and the right. Repubs have been polarizing voters on stuff like gay 
> marriage while most lefties and righties agree ideologically.

No doubt among the ways that the ruling class polarizes the labor class 
is to group them according to non-essential factions (race, religion, 
smokers, gun lovers, hetero-homosexual, etc.) and therebye polarize them 
and prevent them from uniting as a single economic interest.

>
> Don't mind Rush et al, they only preach to the converted (and strange 
> people who hate them but listen anyway). 


The dumbf*cks who voted for Bush, in particular.

Robbie