Conservative Talk Radio: 12 Step Recovery: from Common Dreams

This would be a great article to send to anyone you may know that is under the thrall of Talk Radio. If it saves only one person, it is worth the effort. I plan to send it to the unfortunate souls I know that are blinded by the right.

Each step has a detailed description, to see the details go to:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1104-12.htm

Step 1: Admit that you were under the sway of right-wing, anti-democracy radicals.

Step 2: Realize that we can't have freedom & liberty without first building a civil society.

Step 3: Love democracy's basis in debate and respectful disagreement.

Step 4: Understand that a living wage is vital to maintain a viable middle-class.

Step 5: Support labor unions and stop chanting "cheap labor" as the tired old right-wing mantra.

Step 6: Stop listening to TV and radio pundits who have "amnesia" about the separation of church and state.

Step 7: Stop pretending that you don't understand that government is "We, The People," and not some sort of "them."

Step 8: Repent from your SUV and let's start taking care of the planet we all share.

Step 9: Stop listening to conservative talk radio.

Step 10: Help transform America back into an energy-independent nation.

Step 11: Refrain from rewriting political history.

Step 12: Be a visionary.

First you have to get them off of RWR and then you can talk to them about their SUVs, church-and-state, living wage, etc.

I think a better approach starts with 2: Realize that we can't have freedom & liberty without first building a civil society.

The "Us v Them" approach of talk radio, while terribly entertaining and engaging, is the enemy of civil society.

That which is the enemy of civil society is the enemy of everything this nation stands for.