Reply #76: Eloriel makes the two Cathies an offer they ought not to refuse.. [View All]

[althecat]

Eloriel...

It seems to me that you dealt with this meeting absolutely perfectly.

Cox and Rodgers are probably answering party members questions - in the way you report Rodgers did - all over the state. They will be answering questions from Representatives and party officials in the same dismissive fashion. And in the absence of an informed individual to counter their lies, their barbs will hit home.

There is polish to Rodgers spin here.. even if it is a generation behind the discourse in Washington. Every answer is begging the questioner (or perhaps in the context of a party meeting - commanding the questioner) to desist.

So while defeated Rodgers may be in the meme world, in the real world she still feels able to tell lies constantly, and most importantly hide her own-mind from the truth and her growing feelings of unease..

This is not a case of mere defensiveness.. it goes far further than that. Bottom line she thinks she can lie to you, the party, meetings, representatives etc... just as all the others have. Lewis. Williams and Diebold's brace of talking heads etc.

She thinks she can do this because she thinks there are not enough of us. That the media won't listen and that ultimately their iron grip on the party apparatus will shut up all the parties internal critics.

This mentality is perfectly illustrated in the lady who told you her approach to the issue was immutable.

In NZ politics we would call this individual throughly "whipped". The two Cathies said shut her mind. And she has shut it. Importantly this woman will open her mind when told to do so too.

And so the way you put the issue to Cathy Rodgers was perfect in this phone exchange - (See above....) Cox and her haven't got any time left to change direction on this road. One thing is certain though. If they stay on their present course they will get run over....

But just imagine how this issue would start to open up if the two Cathies were working with the crowd instead of against it.

That said. I suspect in reality it is too late for the Cathies. They have well made their bed....

But then, as St Paul's example teaches us, everybody is entitled to repent, change course and seek forgiveness... And perhaps meeting Eloriel has been a bit like an encounter with a blinding light for Rodgers.

Kia Kaha Eloriel

Al