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Originally Posted by smooth
I don't think it will get you much farther than your party has already gotten itself.
I don't think conservatives believe half the inflammatory shit they fling out into the public discourse, but they do it anyway--and they keep coming out on top.
Follow my above advice whether you believe those things are true or not. Everybody I know talks shit about jerry springer, geraldo, and FOX--but they always seem to be tuning in somewhere along the line and watching that crap.
Just get crazy, inflammatory, and foul--look around, it's working.
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I would normally agree with this - except it is exactly what I have been doing myself for two years. And what I found is that it is too late for liberals to attempt it. The conservatives called shotgun on nastiness. They've monopolized it. Now, when it is attempted by a liberal, it is met with a blank stare by someone leaning right, because it can't even nudge the conservative nastiness that has already infested their mind, or an expression of shock by someone leaning left, because it is viewed as the nastiness that it is.
You can't fight fire with fire - and Rove held all the matches for years.
Nope. I am not a democrat, I am a liberal. And I see no bright side for America.
2008 - Hillary v. McCain/Guilliani - goes conservative
2012 - Republican incumbency - goes conservative because it has now been demonstrated that no matter how bad a President you are, you can easily achieve reelection by appealing to base fears.
2016 - Who knows. But after 16 years of Republican control, the Democrats are going to look like a 1968 Nixon.
Nope. Not a bright side in sight.
Maybe I see something, but it's so far off it's impossible to tell - a strong EU to put America back in its' place? One can hope.