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Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

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Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« on: May 01, 2016, 12:54:55 pm »
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This is the way to “win” in politics now: you just shout at your adversary until he falls silent in acquiescence or despair. The shouting can be metaphorical rather than actual, of course. It can take the form of a mass bellow on social media or a tidal wave of headline-grabbing outrageousness. This phenomenon, the ascendancy of noisemaking as an electoral tactic, is being used on both extreme ends of the political spectrum.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12117287/Take-heart-the-silent-majority-trumps-the-mobocracy.html
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2016, 01:08:02 pm »
Site owner said she wanted excerpts I believe, maybe she can weigh in here?
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2016, 01:10:07 pm »
However absurd your belligerent mouthing-off may be, so long as it creates enough of a din, you will become the central fact around which everything must revolve – even if your position is politically so confused as to be unidentifiable. Noise wins, even when it makes no sense.

The bully is on FOXNEWS as we speak, attempting to intimidate Chris Wallace (he's not intimidated), talking about how many votes he's won, seemingly not realizing that those votes make no difference in the general election.

Those of us who are not intimidated nor impressed by Trump's belligerence will have the last word in November.

#NeverTrump.  Ever.
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2016, 01:11:00 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on May 01, 2016, 01:08:02 pm
Site owner said she wanted excerpts I believe, maybe she can weigh in here?

OK.  I'll honor that on articles you post.
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2016, 01:23:42 pm »

#Absolutely no freaking way, ever.

"Mobocracy, with its vocabulary of infantile insult, is ugly and demeaning, which is presumably why the sensible do not deign to take part in it".

-Janet Dailey
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2016, 01:37:32 pm »
Trump is well versed the socialyst  Saul  Alinski's book, Rules For Radicals.  Chapter and verse he has followed Alinski.  And I hope like the article says, people wise up at the ballot box and think about what they are doing.
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2016, 02:10:01 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on May 01, 2016, 01:23:42 pm

#Absolutely no freaking way, ever.

"Mobocracy, with its vocabulary of infantile insult, is ugly and demeaning, which is presumably why the sensible do not deign to take part in it".

-Janet Dailey

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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2016, 02:39:52 pm »
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Re: Take heart - the silent majority trumps the mobocracy
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2016, 03:05:18 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on May 01, 2016, 02:39:52 pm
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That is unbelievable!   :dx1:
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