I've never chatted up a teabagger - but those Ron Paul supporters

were pretty cool..
I can easily tell DU'ers how to bridge the gap between the splinter right and the splinter left.
It is really about getting out of winless wars, and promoting freedom here in America.
It is about sticking it to the Wall Street Fat Cats and all those greedy CEO's that have been screwing us for the longest time.

Trust me on this - when a person gets a $40.oo fine for paying a credit card bill twelve minutes late, they are gonna be pissed. It don't matter if they are pro-choice, pro-life, or could care less. The last thing they want is these bastids getting tax bailouts so they can screw us more.

Can we bridge the gap between the left and the teabaggers? YES WE CAN!

the jealous unhappy folks who hung black kids back in the 50"s or 60's? We are not far from that with these folks.

perhaps our Paul supporters were a little cooler up here in the Hudson Valley.. they didn't seem racist at all..

gain their trust and bridge the gap. One of my co-workers is a limabgh/fox-news addict, who calls CNN the Communist News Network, but gradually I have been getting through to him by appealing to the populist element of his beliefs. We agree, for example, that the bankers have shafted us and that the govt. helped them do it. We agree that we've been shafted by corporations that sent our jobs overseas--and, again, that the govt. greased the skids for them. We agree, in short, that there is not a level playing field for ordinary people. I'm gradually getting him to see that Republicans did many things to make the situation worse (I wish I could say that the Dems did a lot to reverse that). Oh, and another point of agreement: buying locally from businesses that employ local and treat them well.

Really, I think Noam Chomsky has it right, we should be organizing them, not the Republicans, but to do that requires talking to them, finding bridges, and highlighting common interests.

CHOMSKY: Well, let me give an example. When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.

The greater par of those whom Chomsky is referring to to would no doubt be "Guns, God, Gay" Republicans, and no doubt amenable to fruitful mutual discussion. But mind-locked "Teabaggers"?? Perhaps we have different definitions of "Teabagger".

not sure.
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And there is no gap that can be bridged with sexist, racist bigots.

"promoting freedom"??? :wtf:

instead of the corporations screwing 'em. That's posted over and over on teabagger sites.

things are the way they are and there will thus still be a disconnect on what to be done. However, you could get Paul voters to agree to help stop the imperialism.

but Ron Paul's idea of 'promoting freedom' is to have complete freedom for the rich to grind the poor into the ground. Freedom from all public services and government regulation; that's the way to go. :sarcasm:


He is a big promoter of the 'healthcare is not a right' meme, so fuck him!