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Sadly, if you take a look at

rmrd0000 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:03:34 +0000

Sadly, if you take a look at the purge going on at DailyKos, you will find that there is a growing rift between minority groups and a subset of the Left. This does not bode well for a post-GOP Democratic landslide either

However ineffective or

NCD — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:54:48 +0000

In reply to .....Very few of them will

However ineffective or un-'Democrat' Obama may seem, I look at Koch calling him 'Saddam Hussein' (motherjones magazine has it on audio tape from June, 2011) and the rabid herds of crackpot teabaggers and think if they hate him that much, he must be doing something good. Anyway, who could replace him on the left, and get elected, who would even want to run against the goons of the corporate funded GOP mafia and their brainwashed gun toting zombies?

.....Very few of them will

rmrd0000 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:38:52 +0000

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.....Very few of them will ever change.

Therein lies the problem of letting Democrats lose elections, let Republicans win, and then let the public feel the pain associated with electing Republicans. The idea is that Democrats would then win in landsides.

The problems is that the GOP is actively working on suppressing votes in communities that traditionally vote for Democrats (minorities, students). The base that would aid in the projected Democratic "landslide" would be decreased. More troubling, if things worsened under the GOP, the anger towards target groups would increase.

We are already conditioned. No one on th plane where an Arab-Jewish woman was removed spoke out in protest. In fact, who would. Armed guards taking a suspected "terrorist" off of a plane, who would object?

None of the GOP candidates on the stage who heard the cheers for letting a man die spoke out. Blitzer did not chide the audience.

We are already primed for a authoritarian government.

The TParty cheering Perry for

NCD — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:40:13 +0000

In reply to How Do Politicians Get People to Vote Against Their Own Interest?

The TParty cheering Perry for executing people, and ditto for letting the sick uninsured person die, while accusing Obama of 'death panels' for trying to reduce the uninsured is the heinous homicidal height of hypocrisy.

The unfortunate fact is these people, in addition to being bigoted, uninformed, over entertained, cruel, narcissist idiots, are easily manipulated by corporate hate radio and Murdoch TV blather. They are prime examples of the Party believers in Orwell's dystopia of 1984, and what he called doublethink, holding two contradictory realities in mind, and fervently believing both. (Perry touts killing people and is pro-life, Obama passes a health care Bill and is pro-death)

They vote against their own interests again and again, and then look to the target group provided for them to blame for their miserable lives, illegals, liberals, government workers, unions, Muslims, gays, socialists, anyone but themselves, and the people they elect to run the country. Very few of them will ever change.

This is the best reading of

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:27:06 +0000

In reply to How Do Politicians Get People to Vote Against Their Own Interest?

This is the best reading of anything I have read about the Republicans misguided ways.

The problem on the Left is

rmrd0000 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:07:46 +0000

In reply to Divide and conquer. My God is

The problem on the Left is that some, like Jane Hamsher are willing to refer to others on the Left as dumb ......... These "Leftists" will even gleefully appear on Fox, etc to express their criticisms of the Left.

DailyKos just had a "purge" that effected mostly minorities and women bloggers. The Left will fight itself while the Right goes about it's merry way.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/09/how-markos-moulitsas-taught-me-to-...

Divide and conquer. My God is

Richard Day — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:57:44 +0000

In reply to How Do Politicians Get People to Vote Against Their Own Interest?

Divide and conquer.

My God is better than your God....

Environmentalists kill babies.

Those seeking Civil Rights under our Constitution are racist.

Poor folks in hospitals take away your rights to medical providers.

It just goes on and on and on and us Dems do not seem to have a clue as to how to handle this crap!

And the MSM are said to be liberal whilst the pundits look into the camera and say:

YOU DECIDE!

We have great propagandists on our side. Do not get me wrong. We have Moveon and Mediamatters and a host of groups that send emails to me daily.

The left is doing something wrong!

Thank you, RM. We have some

Wattree — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:15:38 +0000

In reply to On the right, you've got a

Thank you, RM.

We have some of the most insightful writers in the country right her on Dagblog. So like I said above, we need to start posting links on the social networks to our postings.

Verified, There's only one

Wattree — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:12:17 +0000

In reply to Would you say that the

Verified,

There's only one solution to this problem, education. But that's why our educational system is under attack. So those of us who are more prone toward thinking than emotion have to try to turn the internet into a classroom.

Here on Dagblog we're essentially preaching to the choir, so we also have to try to turn Facebook and the other social networks into places where they do more than exchange recipes. So I suggest that when you post a piece to Dagblog, you also post a link to it on Facebook and Twitter.

On the right, you've got a

rmrd0000 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:04 +0000

In reply to How Do Politicians Get People to Vote Against Their Own Interest?

On the right, you've got a subset applauding executions and letting insured people die. On the left, you've got a subset hoping for a GOP victory over Obama thinking that eventually more Democrats will be elected after the voters realize the pain associated with voting for Republicans. In essence both want pain inflicted on the American public because the public is not in lockstep with a particular political position. You post clarifies that observation. Thanks.