http://www.alternet.org/story/153197/5_rules_for_talking_ows_with_your_conservative_relatives_/comments/
By Olivia LaRosa
My comment regarding the article above:
Collateral Damage
As someone who has changed hearts and minds, may I add my 2 cents worth? Only a constant patient application of facts will work on someone who is not of an inherently authoritarian character.
I was raised as a libertarian Republican. That ideology lasted exactly as long as it took me to enter the adult working world and find out that my dad was full of it. So I have approached this argument from all sides.
Our natural allies are libertarian Republicans and libertarian capitalist "decline to state" voters. Kinda like Ron Paul, but without the fascist Xtian John Birch connections. Once these allies understand that:
a) there is no such thing as the "Invisible Hand" of God on the free markets
b) that free markets will never exist, because a power vacuum attracts predators
they begin to pay attention to actual events rather than "faith-based" capitalist polemics; they may come around in surprising ways.
They come to realize that the collateral damage that globalized capitalism inflicts on people, places and things is too high a price to pay for its benefits.
By Olivia LaRosa
My comment regarding the article above:
Collateral Damage
As someone who has changed hearts and minds, may I add my 2 cents worth? Only a constant patient application of facts will work on someone who is not of an inherently authoritarian character.
I was raised as a libertarian Republican. That ideology lasted exactly as long as it took me to enter the adult working world and find out that my dad was full of it. So I have approached this argument from all sides.
Our natural allies are libertarian Republicans and libertarian capitalist "decline to state" voters. Kinda like Ron Paul, but without the fascist Xtian John Birch connections. Once these allies understand that:
a) there is no such thing as the "Invisible Hand" of God on the free markets
b) that free markets will never exist, because a power vacuum attracts predators
they begin to pay attention to actual events rather than "faith-based" capitalist polemics; they may come around in surprising ways.
They come to realize that the collateral damage that globalized capitalism inflicts on people, places and things is too high a price to pay for its benefits.
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