Good luck Carl, this little flame war has reached its end. And so has my conversation with you. I wish you luck in your no-compromise approach to the "regrettable necessity" of coalition building. Just don't bother me any more. You can count yourself as having won this exchange if it matters to you.
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> >
> >Carl's sarcasm is SO persuasive. We start out from
> a
> >position of appalling weakness with no allies. We
> >regard coalition building as "regrettable
> necessity."
> >We refuse to compromise with anyone who differs
> from
> >us in the slightest, insisting it's our way or the
> >high way. The outcome is totally predictable. We
> don't
> >even get to the able. We don't even get to lose. We
> >don't get to be considered players. I realize Carl
> is
> >depressed and angry, but so am I. I assume he's not
> >stupid, just venting. But his position is stupid.
> >Suicidal. Idiotic. Frankly, as the last six years
> of
> >the Bush administration shows, Carl's position is
> >totally moronic even if you have virtually
> >unchallengeable monopoly power. If saying the
> obvious
> >makes me a corporate sellout and class
> collaborator, I
> >plead guilty, Mr. PR Man.
>
> Whoa, weren't you the fellow who a few posts ago was
> counseling the use of
> honey, not vinegar, to catch flies? If the extract
> above exemplifies your
> notion of honeyed words, I see a hard slog ahead for
> you in your five-year
> plan to forge the Great Progressive Coalition.
>
> Although the legal community has amassed "a lot of
> scholarly work on
> 'getting to yes'," as you noted in an earlier post,
> lawyers' characteristic
> dukes-up attitude must surely be considered a
> liability in grassroots
> coalition-building. Whereas the public distrusts
> both lawyers and PR people,
> they *fear* lawyers whereas they find PR people
> merely laughable. I think
> laughter's a better basis for grassroots outreach
> than fear.
>
> Carl
>
>
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