Reply #30: The cure for bad speech is MORe speech

[booley]

so the saying goes.

I like your idea about rotating tents so everybody has a chance.

But we can't censor the Paulites. If anything that would only make problem worse. It makes it look like we cant' counter their message so we have to hide it.

Better to show why they are wrong. Might even convert a few in the process.

My understanding of OWS and the franchises is they are attempting what's known as Swarm Intelligence. In other words, we get as many different people together to hash out a solution and course of action. This is unlike a mob where a few leaders dictate the direction and the crowd is there to reinforce it (that's what happened to the tea party and why for all it's rhetoric about changing the system, it just ended up protecting the conservative status quo). But a consequence is that it has to listen to people most may disagree with, even hate before it gets to that consensus. But I think Occupy Philly can find a way to give the Paulites a chance ot speak and then not only not be corrupted but even use that as a chance to show why the "Your On Your Own" mentality doesn't work.

I think most people get that for all the hoopla they raise about big banks, Libertarianism is a big part of the reason why the banks could expect to get bailed out to begin with. It's why the top 1% pay big money to get libertarian ideas made into political policy. Libertarianism creates the very environment where the top 1% can grab everything and have the rest of us fighting for crumbs. And their excuse that we just haven't tried "real" libertarianism is looking more and more like weak tea.