re READ WITH A Tranquilizer in hand -- No One Is Going To Save You Fools

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: gregb () west-third com
> Date: December 20, 2009 8:02:59 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] READ WITH A Tranquilizer in hand --  No One Is  
> Going To Save You Fools

> Dave, for IP if you wish.
>
> I don't want to create a screed to refute a screed, but a couple of  
> points
> are worth mentioning:
>
> I'd agree that the right has a more effective (or perhaps a better  
> phrase
> is more pervasive) messaging infrastructure -- it's been that way at  
> least
> since my think-tank and editorial-board days 20 years ago. But  
> rather than
> being some sort of knockout blow, it's been an offset to the left's
> historic strongholds in voter registration, get-out-the-vote efforts  
> and
> popular culture influences. As in so many areas of endeavor,  
> competitors
> evolve skills that give them unique advantages.
>
> Are some people bedazzled and boondoggled by slick messaging  
> campaigns?
> Yes. But a significant number of people simply don't trust our
> governmental institutions anymore and will, all things considered, put
> their trust in almost any other option before they hand over more  
> control
> or more funds to a government they view as ineffective and not  
> working in
> their interests.
>
> You can argue that those same Sinister Corporate Interests created  
> this
> environment -- and maybe, at some level, they did. But not by  
> themselves.
>
> We didn't get to today's level of polarized, research-driven and
> destructive political discourse because a bunch of corporate money and
> right-wing hacks drug us there, kicking and screaming, all by  
> themselves.
> There's more to it than that, and to suggest otherwise is wildly
> simplistic.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Greg Brooks
> West Third Group
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> > Date: December 19, 2009 12:30:38 AM EST
> > To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] No One Is Going To Save You Fools
> >
> > No One Is Going To Save You Fools
> > by thereisnospoon
> > Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 04:28:17 PM PST
> > <http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815429/-No-One-Is-Going-To-Save-You-Fools 
> > >
> <<SNIP>>



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