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rurallib

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4. breaking through their walls of defense is hard

Reply to libtodeath (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 08:57 AM

Mar 2012

and those walls are strengthened daily with shots of limbaugh and hannity and crazy preachers.

On the rare occasion when i can engage a winger in discussions, they have agreed eventually with me, but they still refuse to vote for Dems.

One conclusion I have come to is that their one core belief is anti-abortion. All else is changeable.

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How do you respond to that? [View all] TeamsterDem Mar 2012 OP

You offer them something better mdmc Mar 2012 #1

If we actually had libtodeath Mar 2012 #2

breaking through their walls of defense is hard rurallib Mar 2012 #4

IMO the average conservative doesn't really believe the Ayn Rand part treestar Mar 2012 #3

I think that's very true TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #5

True that logic has no effect treestar Mar 2012 #9

I think you've got something cooking there TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #12

How are you going to run a "sales pitch" when the fascists own all of the media? Doctor_J Mar 2012 #6

Well, I think it's clueless to say that one only reaches an audience through media TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #7

It would be best to fight there, since, if they don't see many Democrats treestar Mar 2012 #8

You just summed it up perfectly TeamsterDem Mar 2012 #10

I didn't say that was the only way Doctor_J Mar 2012 #14

You can't break through racism. You can't break through southern culture. aaaaaa5a Mar 2012 #11

They're like those people who keep falling in love with the same abusive types lunatica Mar 2012 #13