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Originally Posted by Sigaba
MOO, the task at hand as we approach the 2012 elections is finding ways to get supporters of the president to question their own assumptions about and understanding of the man and his policy preferences. (Cornel West, among others, has been doing so for months.)
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The truth to speak to them is clear; a challenge certainly to create the receptive listening environment in the first place. This is moving the puppy's dish.
* Just remember that the puppy currently doesn't like being talked down to unless it's being given something. The other thing you might want to do is start a 3-step recovery program for those buffalo'd in Nov 2008; of course, like many recovery programs the first thing they have to do is admit (at least to themselves) that they had a problem, what the consequences were, but that it's eminently fixable.
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A guilt by association 'connect the dots' approach is not going to work any better than it did when opponents of Bush the Younger tried painting his administration as a tool of corporate America.
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It may not 'work' because of the aforementioned attention deficit; but it is no less valid. It is not connecting of a few dots; sufficient dots have been collected to provide more than just an indicator. I'm also a spade caller and have been around the big blue marble enough to know what a despot and his minders looks like. Kinda like art...
The fact that some Panthers are a bit longer in the tooth now and seemingly revered by him for their "elder-ness" doesn't move me.
(Were he really serious about long-term solutions for anything, he'd have made his deals before Jan 2009 and explained that "I'm gonna have to disown you guys & gals for awhile in order to get some stuff done." Frankly, the whole gang just aren't that savvy apparently.)
He and his consorts are just flat-out dangerous on many levels and this doesn't really need to be intellectualized - they just need to be stopped. Part of that is recognizing the porous border across which they draw much of their strategy.
Reparations: "...discovery, dialogue, and debate at a national level" indeed.
To what end, if not money? Fostering race- and class-based polarization?
* There was an amusing sequence years ago in the old West Wing show, where the prez couldn't figure out why he was getting such push-back from the Cong Black Caucus over some program. The response from the caucus leader was a telling (and talking) point:
"The first generation of black millionaires is about to retire. And frankly, Mr. President, they'd like to
keep some of what they've
earned." [emphasis mine]
JFK would've approved; OTOH this prez & his controllers would just call the aforementioned millionaires a subset of those who they'd happily 'volunteer' to engage in shared sacrifice. "Please move over there into the Joe the Plumber column so I can continue to prosecute my advisors' class warfare strategy."
Communicate that.