Excellent advice here for us all

[madison]

"Handling the Bullies"

by Undernews Editor Sam Smith
the Progressive Review
Nov. 21, 2003

<For many years now, the Republican right has engaged in a politics of cultural bullying that is the direct descendent of the southern segregationists. It is based on anathematizing a minority in order to solidify its own political base around false assumptions of purity and superiority. It is an illusion that deceives much of its own constituency into thinking that ultimately minor cultural differences are more important than such issues as economics, healthcare or public education. Thus it is not only mean, it is masochistic. One minority ends up being hurt by another that is being conned and hurt in other ways.

The illusion works best in a politics in which a large portion of the public is politically inert. That way you don't have to convince a majority, you need only mobilize your own minority. It is a vile sort of politics that deliberately fosters hate and anger and is as alien from the American ideal as one can find. It is, in fact, far closer to the theocratic tyranny of the Taliban than to anything in our own best traditions.>

Read the rest (the best part) at: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00163.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. your link took me to a general list

and could not find the article,

Would apreciate a direct link

[revcarol]

2. Did not load.

What am I doing wrong?(Not a member there)

[madison]

3. Here's the link...

Sorry, I didn't get the complete link keyed in. Here it is: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00163.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. thanks

that is okay, happens to all of us

[maggrwaggr]

5. that's a keeper. Thanks.

This person hits the nail right on the head.

I am apalled whenever I see anybody taking GOP bait. "gay marriage" was classic bait, and everybody swallowed it and seems they will continue to swallow it.

There will be way more like "you'd have kept Saddam in power".

That's gonna be the big one for Dean or Clark.

Oh, and the other will be "you want to raise taxes" of course