Our battleground...

[GTurck]

this year has to be to the gut of the electorate rather than their reason.
Right now reading Drew Westen's "The Political Brain" and his thesis has overwhelming evidence that we have emotions about politics and issues before we find the reasons for them. "When emotion roared, reason buckled at the knees." The tea partiers and repubs have done a good job of stirring anxiety and fear about our president and Democrats in general and our weak response has been reasonable and intelligent. We have to bat back with as much emotion as the ball of crud they are throwing with. The electorate will be mobilized by the fear and anxiety that under the repubs we will have more division and less prosperity because of what they believe in. They need to be angered by the idea that those on the other side have no respect for them or their intelligence. In fact that the other side despises their ability to vote and have ideas not in agreement with the very rich and connected. The control of society that seems so enticing is really a way to make them the peasants their ancestors were and which caused those ancestors to immigrate to America to escape.
Instead of fighting about intelligence or reason amongst ourselves we need to focus outward on the reactionaries and regressives on the right who are destroying us from the inside of the political system.:kick:

[H2O Man]

1. "Don't take aim

at the puppet; aim at the puppeteer." -- Malcolm X

[BeFree]

2. heh

You can't spell republican without using the word LIE.

Its easy to tell them they are liars.
Get them started on what they want from the government then point out how they just lied.

[dgibby]

3. The PTB in the Republican Party

learned long ago to aim their message at the reptilian brain, hence the fear, fear, fear, terra, terra, terra ploy. They have taught their subects well. Not only do they fear "terrorists" (whatever THAT means), they fear the "OTHER". That means us, which is why when they say "the only good Liveral is a dead Liberal", they are NOT kidding.