Reply #154: "What you think, you become"

[H2O Man]

Another quote from Gandhi.

In politics, there are three groups of people: those who always support you, those who always oppose you, and the "undecided."

Our goal should be to get the "undecided." It's a large group. It includes those people who may be on DU, and share our values, but who has been convinced by their day-to-day life, from childhood on, that they are not capable. There are more people who do not have an internal locus of control ... they think outside forces determine everything in their life .... and that level of powerlessness, and weakly turning individual choice to the collective .... is indeed bibical.

The next group of undecideds are the curious and interested, who are sincerely unsure of what is going on. They are the people you meet at the gas pump, or in the grocery store. They are angry that a gallon of gas and/or milk is so high, but they haven't fully connected that with george bush.

We need to reach the "undecided" youth with the potential to vote, but not the focus. We need to reach the poor people, who have been taught in the school of hard knocks that this society isn't limited to Johnedward's "two Americas," his wonderful tribute to Mario Cuomo's 1984 speech at the convention. Now, there are three or four Americas where men like Kerry and Edwards have never walked. Bobby Kennedy is the last American politician to walk the streets of those Americas.

We have a message that can attract a sizeable number of the main-stream democrats, who are active, but who do not think in the expanses that we have been inhabiting for the past two weeks.

Can you imagine? The republicans do not expect this out of DU! They expect even the most insightful of DUers to be limited in language, and to only speak in a tongue of extremism: one world government, conspiracies, and revolution for the hell of it.

No, Pallas, I like your idea. I like it a lot. I'll come up with a "rough draft #4" soon .... maybe tomorrow, at least a good start.