Reply #57: You can't just lump [View All]

[gimme a break]

NASCAR fans into a group. I think a lot of NASCAR fans get aggravated over the term NASCAR dad. I am a NASCAR fan. I am not a "NASCAR dad".

Why do we (as people in general) have to try to lump people into groups? None of us like it. Those neocons. Those left wing liberals. Those homosexuals. Those fundamentalists.

You label someone and you risk alienating them. When you assume all women are pro-choice you make a mistake. When you assume all African Americans will vote Democrat you make a mistake. When you attack Christianity and it's symbols you alienate many liberal thinking Christians and swing them toward a Republican vote. When you go and say something like you don't need the southern votes you tick off a lot of liberal southerners. If you quit pandering to groups and make the case for ALL people that's when we can make a difference.

Another problem with labels. Once you label someone, that's how you think about them. That's how you treat them. And that's how they'll vote. Instead of telling a group how wrong or stupid they are how about telling them what we can do to make their lives better.