I always stress the point that only partisan hacks debate words like 'liberal'/'left' and 'conservative'/'right' over the more important descriptor 'authoritarian'. Engaging in that strawman debate is misdirection meant to exploit individual biases. The important word is authoritarian. Some 150 million people in the 20th century learned this the hard way.
"I always stress the point that only partisan hacks debate words like 'liberal'/'left' and 'conservative'/'right' over the more important descriptor 'authoritarian'. Engaging in that strawman debate is misdirection meant to exploit individual biases."
You can stand on a street corner, wearing a sandwich board, and yell this through a megaphone all day, yet most will refuse to hear you.
...what was Upton Sinclair's old chestnut? "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
You are correct, however I will point you to one encouraging trend. The number of people registered as independent now outnumbers registered republicans and is growing. According to some polls the number of independents outnumbers democrats as well. The number of people registered red and blue is declining. There is some reason to be optimistic. More and more people are waking up and can be reached.
I wasn't thinking of Che Guevara
I always stress the point that only partisan hacks debate words like 'liberal'/'left' and 'conservative'/'right' over the more important descriptor 'authoritarian'. Engaging in that strawman debate is misdirection meant to exploit individual biases. The important word is authoritarian. Some 150 million people in the 20th century learned this the hard way.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM
"I always stress the point that only partisan hacks debate words like 'liberal'/'left' and 'conservative'/'right' over the more important descriptor 'authoritarian'. Engaging in that strawman debate is misdirection meant to exploit individual biases."
You can stand on a street corner, wearing a sandwich board, and yell this through a megaphone all day, yet most will refuse to hear you.
...what was Upton Sinclair's old chestnut? "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
You are correct, however I will point you to one encouraging trend. The number of people registered as independent now outnumbers registered republicans and is growing. According to some polls the number of independents outnumbers democrats as well. The number of people registered red and blue is declining. There is some reason to be optimistic. More and more people are waking up and can be reached.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx