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TeamsterDem

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10. You just summed it up perfectly

Reply to treestar (Reply #8)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 08:26 PM

Mar 2012

They're scared of what they don't know. And not knowing us is partially our own fault because we automatically chalk those states up as red and don't even fight there except in some urban areas. Maybe if they met a few Democrats who weren't the perfect caricatures that the Limbaugh types paint of us we might get some of their votes.

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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