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Without this forum I would feel I have gone crazy. To me it seem so obvious that bushco stole the election, as I think it seems to most here. I was contemplating all this when I realized that consensual reality might be at the heart things.
Most liberal people look to a wider group of people as their clan. They don't require knowing them personally to include them and value their opinion. They use feedback and dialog with all of them to form their consensual reality. Conservatives, on the other hand, usually deal with small communities. They like to know all of their clan. There is nothing wrong with this as such, just a different mind set that probably makes some prefer rural and others cities.
So if you were a power hungry person, and wanted to control things what would you do. The city people would not be easily persuaded, they take lots of opinions to contemplate, but with the rural people if you could get one or two in each community then you have an in. So you go after the churches and business owners. You wouldn't care about small businesses, you need some that have a good number of employees. The churches have a political structure, so all you have to do is get the heads of them. And then you turn up the volume of us vs them. They think liberals are satan, we want to force our ways on them, to make them be godless. Basically, they think of us the same things Al Quaida does of the US.
This is their reality, and anyone that moves in that sphere of influence will pick it up or move away. This is what we have to get through. Show them who we really are, what we really believe, that we have been standing up for their freedoms.
So when they want to do stuff like post the 10 commandments in a courthouse, opposing them is the wrong tactic, we should say okay but in a side room and while you are at it post these other religious stuff too. We HAVE to have liberal leaders in their churches preaching what we consider real values. We won't win this if we fight them head on, and it is not the people that is the problem - they are doing as they have been programmed.
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