[lbo-talk] Who are the Teabaggers? Call for assistance

[Alan Rudy]

the point is that it matters who you are talking to in terms of what you can
productively say... and that as you engage in sustained conversation one of
the things you have to allow for is people making up their own minds...
since you can't say the same thing to everyone productively, since you have
to choose your audiences and battles, and since you have to let people think
for themselves along the way - all the while making decisions about whether
it is worth continuing to engage them, maybe the way this exchange keeps
implying that there's one argument that most needs to be made is mostly just
pissing in the wind...

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:


> >"Idiot" is perhaps excessively condensed
> >and crude, but "systematically and perhaps hopelessly deluded" might
> >work.
>
> >Doug
>
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> Yes that works.  But they are no more "systematically and perhaps
> hopelessly deluded" than those who think we can have a nice sanitized
> capitalism based on individual rights.  The point is both sides are
> deluded and utopian, and they reproduce each other.
>
> Brad
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