Calculated Stupidity: How to Lose an Election Campaign

[denem]

If you are having trouble landing a blow on a candidate, don't go straight back at them, no, Attack Their Supporters.

Tell them they are a cult, swigging cyanide kool aid, stupid , deluded, immature, uninformed, dazzled dunderheads and misogynists to boot.

That will win them over for sure. Especially if the public message of the opposing campaign is that you can disagree without being disagreeable, respecting differences, while seeking common purpose.

Win em - you're brainwashed idiot morons, so, vote for Me.

It's ironic how the 'peace, love and understanding' generation became the establishment they so hated.

(Edited for grammar)

[mtnsnake]

1. "It ironic how the peace, love and understanding' generation became the establishment they so hated"

That tells me all I need to know about your post.

[denem]

2. Really - how so?

The flower children grew up to be Yew trees?

[stillcool]

3. I'm really surprised at how much...

that deeply ingrained fear of others exists to this day, and how easily that emotion can be tapped into, to persuade. Now.. "Peace, love, and happiness" that is a state of mind I like to visit frequently.

[laconicsax]

4. So there's been no misogyny this campaign season?

That's news to me.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. the queen cicada

[denem]

6. You basically have no answer.

If you want to win over people, insult them. How does that work again?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.

[unc70]

8. We did not become that "establishment".

We have seen too often how to lose an election. I currently see us trying to make it so either of the two remaining candidates could lose an election that no Dem should be able to lose.

BTW we are coming up on the 40th anniversary of the Broadway openning of "Hair!". I just listened to the original Broadway cast album of it for the first fime in a while, and the music is as powerful as ever. Particularly struck by how well the "lesser" songs have held up and by how the issues are still with us.

[denem]

9. Thank's - I'll check it out.

I was too young to go to Hair. And living in Australia it came out a bit late there, but there was the same controversy.

[unc70]

10. I prefer the Original Broadway Cast version

I had "lost" my original vinyl version from 1968 (think my ex got it), so I had to buy a new CD a couple years ago. The new notes insert wa a good addition because it described the production numbers and brought a lot of it back to life for me.

Still have the vinyl of major songs of that period, such as Cream "Wheels of Fire", Hendrix "Are you experienced?", Doors "Waiting for the Sun". From Feb/March of 1968, the most played song was not one of the rock hits; during the Tet Offensive, the anti-war rallies, through the NH primary, and up until about the assaissination of MLK, the top song in America was "Love is Blue" by Paul Mauriat -- still have the album and its unforgetable cover.