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jtuck004

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14. So if we are going to change this, we have to get a window open in their minds - how...

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 11:15 PM

Dec 2013

What do we show or tell them (which we could make happen over food, coffee and doughnuts, etc) that might cause them to break the frozen pattern of their thinking, where they hold this idea that the problem is caused by the person living in the trailer who has no power, vs the bastard in the bank who buys it and uses it against us?

Watched Robert Reich's "Inequality for All" the other day, thought about how I might get a copy of that and start showing it on the side of a building at night...get some people trained up in how to deal with the questions, get a small group together and make it larger.

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Sad But True - Unemployment Losses/ Food Stamp Cuts/ Most Americans Don't Care [View all] TheMastersNemesis Dec 2013 OP

''Economic Darwinism'' is how we put it when Reaganomics first took off in 1981. Octafish Dec 2013 #1

I think you lost a decade somewhere. Seems more like 33 years to me. eom Blanks Dec 2013 #9

Sorry, my bad. Thanks for the correction. Octafish Jan 2014 #21

In nature, you're not the fittest because you start with more food and protection. Archaic Jan 2014 #16

Excellent analogy. Octafish Jan 2014 #22

Though we understand that what we rent now... MrMickeysMom Jan 2014 #23

They will start caring . . . Brigid Dec 2013 #2

But by then they will be convinced via propaganda that it's the fault of the left. nm rhett o rick Dec 2013 #8

It is a very sad commentary of what we (as a society) have become etherealtruth Dec 2013 #3

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? Fumesucker Dec 2013 #10

Please sir, I want some more etherealtruth Dec 2013 #11

Agreed. I have a couple of family members with this mentality and its sick riderinthestorm Dec 2013 #4

Americans have, for the most part, become extremely self-centered. City Lights Dec 2013 #5

Why should they? The voice of opposition has been completely suppressed. Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #6

It's the new normal jsr Dec 2013 #7

So according to whom? 2naSalit Dec 2013 #12

How else do you explain 300 million people being taken advantage of by, at most, 12 million? jtuck004 Dec 2013 #13

But I don't see where you get 2naSalit Jan 2014 #17

How do you know they care? What behavior do they evince? I am guessing you don't presume to read jtuck004 Jan 2014 #18

So ranting 2naSalit Jan 2014 #19

Maybe if they cared you would have a job? But I'm glad your experience is so pleasant. jtuck004 Jan 2014 #20

Thanks for the 2naSalit Jan 2014 #24

So if we are going to change this, we have to get a window open in their minds - how... jtuck004 Dec 2013 #14

"The silence and complete lack of outrage over GOP monstrosities is just so disappointing" BumRushDaShow Dec 2013 #15

Until it happens to them and then "woe iz me". . . Paula Sims Jan 2014 #25

It's a long standing formula, but "dumbing down" can only be dumbed down so far... MrMickeysMom Jan 2014 #26

7% unemployment doesn't look so bad if you're among the 93% who are employed. stopbush Jan 2014 #27

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #28

I care. 99Forever Jan 2014 #29

The "I've got mine and I don't care about you" faction of our society is a national disgrace. democratisphere Jan 2014 #30