Reply #46: Being gentle....

[skids]

While you may have the perception problem dems have among the right, what you are essentially trying to say is that we should appease the right by taking some of the things that annoy them away.

What you don't get is that those things that annoy the right were manufactured by the far right, through their propaganda machines. They have managed to twist the truth around and portray liberals in the kind of light that suits their purpose.

If we did as you suggest, the Limbaughs and Hannity's etc. would just manufacture more.

After a while, you will come to realize that the strategy of the far right is that of a high school bully. The only way to beat them is to stand up against them, until they realize that we do not and will never believe they are as strong as they pretend to be. Once they lose this veneer of power, we win, and the leftists and sensible rightist can come together and debate stuff in a civilized manner, rather then the name calling that goes on now.

Sometimes you can't take the high road. There are the types of people in the world who specialize on being bandits of the high road. So we adopt their tactics, add a little class and try to keep things from getting too unprincipled, and fight fire with fire.