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JailBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 02:51 PM
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51. WHAT are you?
You advocate abandoning substance, yet you call yourself "TimeForTRUTH"? Whether you realize it or not, you're playing right into the hands of the corporations that run this country. They WANT the public to remain stupid (i.e. uninformed and misinformed) because stupid people are easier to control.

"See, again you have made my point. By repeating the charges even more vehemently, but offering no substance you have perfected the strategy that is employed all too often against the Democrats. The difference is that they take the bait, lending the charges credibility."

You're arguing just like a Republican - or a corrupt Democrat. I DID offer substance. If you're too lazy to type "Global Crossing" into a search engine, that's your problem. But substance can also take the form of LOGIC - anothe quality that's sadly lacking in political discourse.

ME: ”Yet most Democrats campaign just like you're advising them to - substituting slogans for substance. The best example is public education. Check out education statements from 1,000 Democratic candidates, and they'll sound almost exactly like Ralph Nader's: Let's give education more money without accountability. Democrats are as clueless about education as Republicans; they need to get their act together.”

YOU "Since you offer no specifics I don’t have any way to reply."

If you're so uninformed that you aren't even aware of this really obvious truth, then you aren't qualified to offer advice on campaign tactics.

"Actually I don’t think that a mob of corrupt Democrats would save the world, and I don’t remember saying that such a crew would save anything. What I am advocating is Democrats winning elections by employing Republican strategies, that’s all."

Oh. Well, everything makes sense now. You aren't interested in reforming anything. You just want to get a mob of Democrats elected, whether they're as corrupt as Republicans or not, and continue business as usual.

In that spirit, your initial logic makes perfect sense. Go for it.
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