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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 11:56 AM
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15. I really don't give a fuck if the fear IS rational - it is still undercutting
REAL rationality.

Maybe you've never been bullied as a kid. I was. I had real, rational fears of just going to school. But I went to school because there was something I wanted to GAIN.

Scaring people only gets compliance. Offering people better alternatives, offering hope, if you will, generates enthusiasm. Obama did NOT get elected on a platform of "I suck less than they do."

Appeals to fear, rational or not, are appeals to the basest human nature. We should be better than that.
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  -How about a little reality check here SargeUNN  Sep-21-10 10:56 AM   #0 
  - Stand together or fall one by one. nt  rrneck   Sep-21-10 10:59 AM   #1 
  - The party would not have to depend on scare tactics if the administration  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 11:10 AM   #2 
  - Don't be confused on that either  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 11:17 AM   #4 
  - Rational vs Irrational fears. That's a good way to put it  emulatorloo   Sep-21-10 11:29 AM   #9 
  - I really don't give a fuck if the fear IS rational - it is still undercutting  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 11:56 AM   #15 
     - Then the fear merchants  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 01:12 PM   #24 
        - YOU are one of those fear merchants.  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 01:15 PM   #25 
           - You are one of the victims of  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 01:39 PM   #28 
              - Wrong. I do NOT act on 'rational fears'. I do not act on fear at all.  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 02:20 PM   #32 
  - Exactly  bahrbearian   Sep-21-10 11:18 AM   #5 
  - Hear, hear!  Individualist   Sep-21-10 11:19 AM   #6 
  - Your reality check is in the mail.  damntexdem   Sep-21-10 11:16 AM   #3 
  - +1219125466  Change Happens   Sep-21-10 11:20 AM   #7 
  - "we suck a little less than the other guys" isn't very compelling.  Edweird   Sep-21-10 11:28 AM   #8 
  - "a little less"?  emulatorloo   Sep-21-10 11:30 AM   #10 
  - RW policy isn't suddenly 'progressive' because someone with a "D" behind their name advocates it.  Edweird   Sep-21-10 11:42 AM   #12 
  - ok let me point again to my Katrina Experience  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 11:39 AM   #11 
     - I'm glad you made it out ok, but I'm baffled as to how this is relevant.  Edweird   Sep-21-10 11:44 AM   #13 
     - good that you ask  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 11:55 AM   #14 
        - OK, Here's the problem: Katrina was a hurricane and Obama is the president.  Edweird   Sep-21-10 12:04 PM   #17 
        - here is your problem with your statement  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 01:10 PM   #23 
        - Strawman. Your implication is that if we try to hold Democrats accountable  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 12:13 PM   #18 
     - Well, you COULD have voted for katrina to not hit, couldn't you?  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 12:01 PM   #16 
        - you are so wrong  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 12:14 PM   #19 
           - Hey, I'm not the one comparing electoral politics with a natural disaster. nt  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 12:18 PM   #20 
              - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-21-10 01:31 PM   #27 
                 - And denying the reality that others experience is reasonable?  Greyhound   Sep-21-10 01:47 PM   #29 
                    - If I understood you I would answer but  SargeUNN   Sep-21-10 01:54 PM   #30 
                       - Your OP is both condescending and attempts to scare people into  Greyhound   Sep-21-10 02:28 PM   #33 
  - How dare you speak reasonably on these boards?  lapislzi   Sep-21-10 12:21 PM   #21 
  - I wonder why we never see 'reality checks' for the 'centrists.'  laughingliberal   Sep-21-10 12:35 PM   #22 
  - A Strong Democratic Party  oldlib   Sep-21-10 01:20 PM   #26 
  - Agreed. Only i contend that voting in RW blue dogs and New Democrat  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-21-10 02:32 PM   #34 
  - Rec. nt  old mark   Sep-21-10 01:59 PM   #31 
 

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