Comments on: Gays Ain’t The Problem http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/ Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These Sat, 19 May 2012 15:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: BadTux http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/#comment-78 BadTux Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:47:00 +0000 http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/#comment-78 The problem is that you cannot reach hairless monkeys with little things like "facts" and "logic". You have to appeal to their inner monkey. Democrats and liberals continue to believe that if they just keep sincerely attempting to convince people using logic and reason that their way is in the best interests of the majority of the people, people will naturally gravitate to Democratic/liberal positions because it's in their own best interests. BALDERDASH! What monkeys want to do is hoot and scream and howl and throw feces at anybody who is not part of their own little troop of hairless monkeys. To reach monkeys, you don't speechify to them in droning detail about how it's in their best interests to vote for your policies. You convince them that your particular troop of hairless monkeys is a buncha bad-asses that will give them LOTS of opportunities to hoot and scream and howl and throw feces at other hairless monkeys! Logic and reason work fine when you have an educated populance. But now that 30 years of Republican policies have turned the U.S. educational system into a 12-year obedience training system where people are taught that "facts" are whatever people in authority say they are, logic and reason just won't work for reaching the majority of the American people, because the majority of Americans have never used logic and reason, were never exposed to logic and reason in their schools or their home life, and have no idea how to respond to them. In the long term, we must fix our schools, but to get to the long term, we must recognize reality and address the inner monkey. - Badtux the Cynical Penguin The problem is that you cannot reach hairless monkeys with little things like “facts” and “logic”. You have to appeal to their inner monkey. Democrats and liberals continue to believe that if they just keep sincerely attempting to convince people using logic and reason that their way is in the best interests of the majority of the people, people will naturally gravitate to Democratic/liberal positions because it’s in their own best interests. BALDERDASH! What monkeys want to do is hoot and scream and howl and throw feces at anybody who is not part of their own little troop of hairless monkeys. To reach monkeys, you don’t speechify to them in droning detail about how it’s in their best interests to vote for your policies. You convince them that your particular troop of hairless monkeys is a buncha bad-asses that will give them LOTS of opportunities to hoot and scream and howl and throw feces at other hairless monkeys!

Logic and reason work fine when you have an educated populance. But now that 30 years of Republican policies have turned the U.S. educational system into a 12-year obedience training system where people are taught that “facts” are whatever people in authority say they are, logic and reason just won’t work for reaching the majority of the American people, because the majority of Americans have never used logic and reason, were never exposed to logic and reason in their schools or their home life, and have no idea how to respond to them. In the long term, we must fix our schools, but to get to the long term, we must recognize reality and address the inner monkey.

- Badtux the Cynical Penguin

]]> By: Tannish http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/#comment-77 Tannish Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:03:00 +0000 http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/#comment-77 I Did !?! Shucks! I was unaware of these particular activities. I just perused his website: that was enough for me. What troubles me most is the legions of mindless robots he finds for his nefarious schemes. Perhaps three generations of submitting to the TV prepares people to blindly follow charismatic leaders, I don't know. I do know that it's unfashionable to think in many quarters these days. Quite disturbing, that. I Did !?! Shucks!
I was unaware of these particular activities. I just perused his website: that was enough for me.

What troubles me most is the legions of mindless robots he finds for his nefarious schemes. Perhaps three generations of submitting to the TV prepares people to blindly follow charismatic leaders, I don’t know. I do know that it’s unfashionable to think in many quarters these days.

Quite disturbing, that.

]]> By: leucanthemum b http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/#comment-76 leucanthemum b Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:14:00 +0000 http://tannish.net/2005/07/05/gays-aint-the-problem/#comment-76 Congratulations! You've hit on something with which I can agree wholeheartedly! This man is no Christian, by any rational standards. Dobson is the head of an organization whose apparent purpose is to raise hackles, so they can sue. FotF has made appearances at a number of funerals -- not just at those of known gays, but even at a military funeral a couple of weeks ago, hoping to start a brawl so they could sue the city for lack of protection and/or First Amendment violations and sue the opposing individuals for damages. Even though his degree is in psychology or something comparable, Dobson is a lowdown personal injury attorney at his core (I'd have said "at heart", but I doubt he has one). Congratulations! You’ve hit on something with which I can agree wholeheartedly! This man is no Christian, by any rational standards. Dobson is the head of an organization whose apparent purpose is to raise hackles, so they can sue. FotF has made appearances at a number of funerals — not just at those of known gays, but even at a military funeral a couple of weeks ago, hoping to start a brawl so they could sue the city for lack of protection and/or First Amendment violations and sue the opposing individuals for damages.

Even though his degree is in psychology or something comparable, Dobson is a lowdown personal injury attorney at his core (I’d have said “at heart”, but I doubt he has one).

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