Comments on: Values, Culture and Politics http://www.frederickclarkson.com/2005/09/values-culture-and-politics/ The blog of Frederick Clarkson Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:17:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Greek Shadow http://www.frederickclarkson.com/2005/09/values-culture-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Greek Shadow Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.frederickclarkson.com/?p=268#comment-245 I whole heartedly agree. Just changing our message isn't enough. It's going to take sweat equity in getting the vote out. Actually the more successful the neocons are the easier it is to take the blinders off the people who don't vote or follow the pack. It is going to take some Democrats willing to stand up to the slime machine instead of buckling in to it to change things. I whole heartedly agree. Just changing our message isn’t enough. It’s going to take sweat equity in getting the vote out. Actually the more successful the neocons are the easier it is to take the blinders off the people who don’t vote or follow the pack. It is going to take some Democrats willing to stand up to the slime machine instead of buckling in to it to change things.

]]> By: Lynne http://www.frederickclarkson.com/2005/09/values-culture-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Lynne Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:33:00 +0000 http://www.frederickclarkson.com/?p=268#comment-244 <i>They should also, as Chip Berlet has persuasively argued in several essays on Talk to Action -- stop the pointless and counterproductive demonization of conservative Christians.</i><br/><br/>You're right of course...but it's so <i>hard</i> when they can be so heartless (or rather, cannot seem to think beyond themselves about solutions to societal problems). I have members of my own family in this category, and I get so angry at the sheer knock-headedness that I find it hard to engage them at all. The last conversation I had with my dad about politics ended very badly, and I've had to decide not to approach that subject ever again.<br/><br/>Forget religion - we haven't gone there since I was in college.<br/><br/>There's a sense of distrust in dealing with people of such an ideology - a sense I'm sure they feel as well. If I can't form a bond of trust regarding political discourse with my own father, how can anyone?<br/><br/>(I don't even tell them I do political blogging - god forbid they ever read my stuff!) They should also, as Chip Berlet has persuasively argued in several essays on Talk to Action — stop the pointless and counterproductive demonization of conservative Christians.

You’re right of course…but it’s so hard when they can be so heartless (or rather, cannot seem to think beyond themselves about solutions to societal problems). I have members of my own family in this category, and I get so angry at the sheer knock-headedness that I find it hard to engage them at all. The last conversation I had with my dad about politics ended very badly, and I’ve had to decide not to approach that subject ever again.

Forget religion – we haven’t gone there since I was in college.

There’s a sense of distrust in dealing with people of such an ideology – a sense I’m sure they feel as well. If I can’t form a bond of trust regarding political discourse with my own father, how can anyone?

(I don’t even tell them I do political blogging – god forbid they ever read my stuff!)

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