Look, what did you think would happen?
That Karl Rove with that much money, that much power, that close, would let his life's mission to turn social reality back to 1954 slip away? That delusional radical Christians who finally found cover in his tent - wouldn't slime their emotion and damnation-laden shame-and-blame game on everyone to stay where they finally had power instead of derision? That black boxes cant be rigged? That exit polls were wrong? That only the trifecta-three states would have voting anomalies that glaring?
Three years? One year? Eleven months? Two hours? What did you invest? Radical conservatives have invested billions of dollars and nearly 40 years to get here. They have patience, strategy, funding. They accepted they were underdogs and then got on with the serious business of BUYING CONTROL.
Politics is about ideology, cultural ebb and flow, generations of families and it is ongoing, never-ending and a life-long commitment because it reflects people's beliefs and beliefs last a lifetime.
As a liberal I dont engage in politics to win, I do it to live better and extend liberal, humanist values for living to others to enjoy, now and into the future.
Why do liberals seem to lose? It's the idealism, stupid. We are sustaining a vision that runs counter to the basic human evolutionary drive to survive at any cost. We were winning and conservatives felt threatened. They did what it took for them to feel safe again - get control. Now the shoe is on the other foot. So what.
We are creative, visionary, empathetic and compassionate. It is those functions in our brains that give our lives meaning, that comprise fundamental needs that must be satisfied. We expect that if we only show people The Truth they will agree with us. It doesn't work that way, anymore than when they can't understand why we don't get it from their point of view. It's brain wiring. It's not negotiable. We either learn to speak their brain mapped-on language or all are doomed to suffer their excesses.
But speaking their language doesn't mean becoming them. It means understanding how to stand our ground without imploding from the grief of observing in them what we most hate - the way they use their fear of change to destroy our need to change.
Pretend it is the beginning of the struggle for human rights in America, not the end. Pretend you are preaching to a whole new crowd of people who dont get it because you are. Pretend you are the calming, reasoning power of a loving parent married to an abusive prig, because you are. And if that spouse-beating, over-bearing, control-driven asshole won't get therapy toss him out!
Bring It On 2006.
Three years? One year? Eleven months? Two hours? What did you invest? Radical conservatives have invested billions of dollars and nearly 40 years to get here. They have patience, strategy, funding. They accepted they were underdogs and then got on with the serious business of BUYING CONTROL.
Politics is about ideology, cultural ebb and flow, generations of families and it is ongoing, never-ending and a life-long commitment because it reflects people's beliefs and beliefs last a lifetime.
As a liberal I dont engage in politics to win, I do it to live better and extend liberal, humanist values for living to others to enjoy, now and into the future.
Why do liberals seem to lose? It's the idealism, stupid. We are sustaining a vision that runs counter to the basic human evolutionary drive to survive at any cost. We were winning and conservatives felt threatened. They did what it took for them to feel safe again - get control. Now the shoe is on the other foot. So what.
We are creative, visionary, empathetic and compassionate. It is those functions in our brains that give our lives meaning, that comprise fundamental needs that must be satisfied. We expect that if we only show people The Truth they will agree with us. It doesn't work that way, anymore than when they can't understand why we don't get it from their point of view. It's brain wiring. It's not negotiable. We either learn to speak their brain mapped-on language or all are doomed to suffer their excesses.
But speaking their language doesn't mean becoming them. It means understanding how to stand our ground without imploding from the grief of observing in them what we most hate - the way they use their fear of change to destroy our need to change.
Pretend it is the beginning of the struggle for human rights in America, not the end. Pretend you are preaching to a whole new crowd of people who dont get it because you are. Pretend you are the calming, reasoning power of a loving parent married to an abusive prig, because you are. And if that spouse-beating, over-bearing, control-driven asshole won't get therapy toss him out!
Bring It On 2006.
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