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Edited on Wed Mar-24-04 09:18 PM by DisgustiPatriotiated
Rule Number One. Survival – You cannot achieve ANY political goal unless you survive, no matter what you have done in the past or what you intend to do in the future. You must first do what is necessary to survive the election confronting you.
Rule Number Two. Getting half of what you want is better than nothing. No matter what you want and how good your intentions are, there is ALWAYS going to be someone opposed. It is always better in the long run to compromise and take SOME of what you wanted instead of being stubborn and insisting on holding out for the whole thing and ending up with NOTHING in the end.
Rule Number Three. The only way to shift back to the left is one bite at a time. This is done by picking off the weakest points of the opposition first, the “low hanging fruit”, and when that is successful, moving on from there. You don’t start by deciding to move an entire mountain overnight.
Rule Number Four. The masses are simpletons. They are not stupid, but they fall for simple catchphrases and attention-grabbers in advertising. I’m sorry but they just do. We have to be either ahead of such rushes the source of them.
Finally, KISS - KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!
My biggest issue with some people is with Rules Number Two and Three. I get the feeling reading in weeks past here that some people want an immediate reversal to the left, and in some ways they want immediate rhetoric in Rule Number One. That would cause the immediate loss of survival that would make the rest of rules moot to begin with.
This is not a simple process; it’s a complicated one. I just hope we can get a Democrat elected to get this complicated process started, and that as a Party we will have the strength to keep the naysayer’s at bay long enough to be able to get some progress made.
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