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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:39 AM Original message |
I talked with a Tea Partier yesterday |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. You can't get through to the teabaggers. Give it up. |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
2. uh, no, you little twit, it is the reichwing saying the constitution is outdated. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. They think the constitution has something to do with supply side economics. |
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Magron (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
58. Reichwing. Mind if i use that? |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #58 |
64. welcome to DU--you are more than welcome to use "reichwing"-- |
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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. "How do we reach these people?".....we don't. Like an addict...beating it comes from within. |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. Some people are inherently unreachable |
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warrior1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
6. Man |
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Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #6 |
25. Yes, it's very sad.... |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
7. You don't |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. Lots of people agree about the banks |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
38. Good analysis |
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Solomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #38 |
47. I've been harping on that damn central bank. But it's like crying |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:15 AM Response to Reply #47 |
63. It is one of the keys |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
9. We don't reach them; we expose them for the fools they are. |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
10. This sounds terrible |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. I think that 50% is pretty generous |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. Insulting half the population is counter productive when |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 04:03 PM Response to Reply #42 |
56. Except that nobody |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:13 AM Response to Reply #56 |
62. There are many examples of people finding |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #62 |
66. That's all very warm and fuzzy, but |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 07:52 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. I'm not talking about "a large segement" of the population |
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ThatsMyBarack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. "Rich Dad Poor Dad": |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Yes, it's a known scam. Similar to the Prosperity Gospel. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:24 AM Response to Reply #11 |
27. Kiyosaki is a not-so-New Jack Hustla who (quel surprise) got his book start at Amway: |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I picked it up on a whim at a Los Angeles Public Library book sale |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:04 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Thanks for link |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #32 |
54. It's not a bad dissection for the most part . . . |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
12. I think that Democrats need to reach them somehow. |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
43. Very true, kudos |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
14. This line says it all, teabaggers using public services and talking cuts? |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
15. You'll get along better with her if you accept that she's made up her mind |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
44. "get along"?! |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #44 |
50. They've made up their minds and not even facts will budge them |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:09 AM Response to Reply #50 |
61. I don't know who this "them" is |
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heppcatt (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
16. Have you heard of the book "The Secret"? |
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Zax2me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
17. Why?! |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
18. I'm going Godwin right off the bat here... |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
48. Godwins Law has been revoked, so you're on firm-footing, IMO. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:52 PM Response to Reply #48 |
55. I have had this nagging feeling for years, now. |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
19. Tea BAggers are just the most gullible of republicans..... |
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ladywnch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
20. you cannot educate people who have fully embraced cognitive dissidence |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
21. There needs to be a study about jumbled brain syndrome. There is an inability |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
22. Talking to tea Baggers is like talking to a wall |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
23. If she really believes Banks run the country, why does she support |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
24. How do we reach them? Who gives a fuck? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
26. With ice water. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
29. Sometimes retreating to first principles works. For example, ask |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
30. How do we reach these people? |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. You don't. Not really. As a poster said upthread....... |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
34. She's about stupid enough to buy a Dick Morris book. |
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Chorophyll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. "She said that she used to be a socialist." |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
36. Civil debate is dead in this country. The other side has gone insane. |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
37. They have some point correct, like the banks |
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JohnnyRingo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
39. Start breaking off random car antennas so they can't listen to AM radio |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
40. Can't "reach" them.. Thing is.. |
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texshelters (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
41. The far right uber patriots are a waste of time, however |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
45. I think you better tell this person to stop drinking the red stuff |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
46. So did you ask the unemployed guy how much unemployment did he gather? |
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ChoppinBroccoli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
49. Sounds Like She's Watched The "End Of America" Video Too |
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Dokkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
51. You think |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:37 PM Response to Reply #51 |
57. I disagree with means testing for SS and Medicare. Everybody pays into them. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
52. Well. |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
53. In other words... |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
59. Lol, if these people said cutting the three wars, DHS, drug war etc were what we should cut ro |
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KelleyKramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
60. You need to give up on that |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
65. They are happy with their ignorance and don't want to hear any facts |
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