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expatriot
10-21-2007, 10:26 PM
It occurred to me that there may be some who might wonder about the persistent
label applied to various members of the rEVOLution as well as our candidate.

This label arises when someone is intellectually challenged by the concept of principles.
In venue after venue the same response is visible:

The people who continuously denigrate Ron Paul and the grassroots
through the use of these labels have a single point in common:

They are incapable of comprehension.

It is not that they have not heard every aspect of the message,
it is simply that they lack the intellectual horsepower to digest the message.

One key component absent in their lexicon is 'principle'.

They don't get 'principle'. It is a vast mysterious universe to those people.
They don't understand how action A causes event B based on principle.

This obstacle leads them into a mental storm of confusion,
out of which they find the vacuous nonsense other candidates spout
as being fatherly and reassuring.

This is a litmus test against which they have no defense.

Knowing this, their weakness lies exposed and ripe for the attack.

The opposition is universally absent of principle.
This should be exposed for what it is - defective government education.

Of all the groups remaining to be recruited to the Ron Paul rEVOLution,
the religious right should be high on the list given their leaders
exhortations to principles disguised as morality.

For the non-religious, it is only a matter of logic.
A candidate without principle is like a rudderless ship in the storm,
even more dangerous without principle based upon the Constitution.

When you encounter the 'crazy' label, lower your IQ and speak as to
a more 'juvenile' mentality - this is what network news has done for decades.

That the average Ron Paul supporter is far more intelligent than the masses
is obvious to everyone - we just need to use our brains at a lower gear ratio.:)

AlienLanes82
10-21-2007, 10:41 PM
People don't want to hear too much about principle. Rather than trying to tell them that they should care more about it, worry about the things they do want to hear about.

If they want better public schools, explain why Ron Paul will enable better schools.
If they want better health care, explain why RP offers a better plan.

People are scared of extremists. Rightly so, in many cases. They like having a society with functioning institutions - schools, police, military. They're prepared to deal with an amount of inefficiency and corruption to maintain this.

So, the way to 'defuse the lunatic fringe crazy label', as your post promisingly began, is to offer good, common-sense examples of how RPs policies will improve people's lives. Not to explain that RP actually has correct principles. If you do that, they'll run away, muttering what a lunatic fringe whacko you are.

expatriot
10-21-2007, 10:53 PM
Fair enough, depending on your audience.
If your audience is a populist crowd truly devoid of vocabulary,
your observation has real merit.
(Town Hall meetings in eastern Montana come to mind,
but that's another story. :cool:)

Urban people who wield influence may still remember some of the old
discussions of charisma versus principle from days when such were discussed,
and it is this crowd I suppose I really mean.
These are folk who see the Ron Paul movement through a telescope
and have yet to be exposed to the real core of influence building up
in the runup to the primaries. They would remember vague discussions
among their parents and teachers about the power of 'principles'.

Welcome to the rEVOLution, and enjoy your stay, AlienLanes82, btw.