Maggie's Farm

For the Barrister

And, also maybe Donny- - -
Question: why, oh why, &^@*^%$ WHY can't we get the Republican Party to develop a media department with the skills and the insights to start a campaign educating the public on how cult's use the language to indoctrinate, to bully, etc.? The "agents of change" and their white male whatevers are so hard to talk with, to swing over because they HAVE BEEN INDOCTRINATED INTO A CULT ! It's that plain and simple. The techniques used by any cult in the world are the same as those that have been used on our young women for the past 40 years. No wonder they can't consider another way of thinking-- I ask again: why haven't the Republicans been able to see this as the fundamental problem and bring that subject to the public forum? There are well known, well documented techniques -- let's get this conversation out there. So that when woman comes up to you and says "oh, I just love you and your work", you can ask her what she thinks about immigration and not have her respond with "your a racist". Sheesh--let's get past this obstacle folks!

We know a gal who is a middle income "advocate" in a well known agency. She cannot bare to hear the "details" of immigration impact on the states along our southern border. Her response "it's just change--change is so good for all of us. Anyway, what difference does it make who occupies the US?" Her suggestion (and, watch for this one coming down the pike) "everyone knows older people are more racist--it has something to do with the changes in your frontal lobe". There is no way this pretty smart gal can back down from the party line! FIX THAT and you might get back this country.

Thank you for the insight--it is always much appreciated!

HOWEVER, the point I was trying to make is that we need to RE-educate the nation--teach everyone the basic rhetorical skills and in particular their application by/to cult type indoctrination. I want to see every overweight broad at Wal-Mart able to recognize when she hears it--just what debate/indoctrination tool is being used! Donny--do you know that many, many schools,ironically even small universities with law schools, do not teach rhetoric. The law school may teach a class in debate--but, not make available, or require of every student one semester of rhetoric.

That video about selling baby parts is just one example of how it comes back to haunt. IF, the folks doing the editing had made clear to the viewer that the video was long and had been edited only to show the portion that demonstrates one idea (the sale of parts), then the President of women's group could not have come back so easily, and so quickly and make the editors/pro-lifers look so foolish! The fine tuning Donny might have taken this effort way farther down the road. All the other side had to do this week was point out the obvious--it was edited by pro-lifers to make a point, and then apologize for the quick, easy and harmless obvious "she sounded too callous!". A little more finesse is all it would take and most importantly a dedicated team effort to focus on training the American public what to look for--how to hear what's actually being (not) being said.

mmm . . .. did I make that clear? ;-)