I think we can agree that Conservatives have shown up to this fight with guns. That’s what they always do. They take shots, personal, political, and oftentimes, downright insane. The progressives, as usual, have shown up with baseball bats. And they don’t even have a good strategy for how to use those bats effectively.<\/p>\n
And in reality, the progressives could still win this fight…they’ve got a powerful leader who can really distract their opponents most effectively. However, they’ve decided that the best strategy is to turn those bats on that leader and pound him on the shins, demanding him to pull out his gun and fire back.<\/p>\n
Now, a winning strategy would really be for that leader to distract those conservatives with guns while progressives sneak up behind them and club them with baseball bats. But that doesn’t apparently appeal to some of their very simplistic sensibilities, and I suppose that’s okay…but that renders them effectively useless in the battle to get our health insurance system right, to get our environment cleaned up, and to get some freaking jobs for all these unemployed people.<\/p>\n
The real problem is that there is a small group, maybe 5% of the overall population, of people who identify themselves as “real progressives”. Ideologues…not to say that’s a bad word, but they’ve decided to stake out their position consistently to the left of the President, and they figure that will somehow make him “move to their direction”. They use their influence over left wing radio and the netroots to try to “gin up” the liberal base, and figure that if enough liberals get mad, it would “scare” the President into doing what they want.<\/p>\n
That’s an utter and complete misunderstanding of the typical liberal psyche. <\/p>\n
People don’t become liberals because they’re like conservatives. Scaring them into doing what they want doesn’t work. Fear is something that drives people to be conservatives. Liberals become liberals because idealism makes them feel good. The majority of the people out there look for a leader that can embody those ideals, because they don’t feel that they, themselves, can make their ideals a reality themselves. When they don’t have that leader, they shrink back, identify with a wide variety of different people, and generally climb back into their shells and give up. When you kick that leader down, all you end up doing is deflating the base when you should be INFLATING that base. <\/p>\n
The key for those “real progressives”, which in truth, are typically alpha personalities that think they, themselves, can solve everything with their own ideas and really don’t truly understand why people wouldn’t always agree with them. They are very, very different than the people they’re trying to motivate. There’s a couple ways to do this…you can facilitate the organization of individual people by making them feel that their leader is right…and from there, help them take more progressive stances. If a leader has an army of people behind them that are cheering them on to do the right thing instead of jeering at them for doing the wrong thing, there’s a better chance that leader will be stuck doing the right thing regardless of the influence around them. A mob generally can overwhelm the barricades, so to speak…if they’re willing to work together to push them aside.<\/p>\n
And THAT is how, when your idealistic leader is negotiating with the other side to keep them from firing…you sneak up behind the other side and club them over the heads. The battle is won with no shots fired, and no one dying needlessly. You get in a firefight with ideals built on fear and try to fight fire with fire, positive ideals die. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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