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Dennis and Joe

Dennis sums the whole situation up perfectly:

“NOT SPAM

In all honesty, it is the people who AREN’T repetitive, in the face of the same arguments time and time again, that you need to worry about.

Repetition is the key to getting your point accross, and your political enemies will use repetition. The fact that racial diversity doesn’t work, hasn’t altered the propaganda promoting it one bit. We are barraged by images racial mixing and diversity and told this is ‘the white mans future’ again and again, and again and again. After 15-20 years of experiencing this myself (I’m still young, forgive me), they have never tired, and the message isn’t any more plausible.

Comment by Dennis

That is the situation I am in. All my life what passed ofr public debate consisted of:

1) Liberals saying silly things and hiding behind an aura os spphisitication and

2) Conservatives taking them seriously and finidng synonyms for “silly” and “sophisticated,” using untranslated French to describe liberals nonsense, invening whole vocabularies.

I read Joe’s bottom line as saying that I should do what repsetable cosnervatives do. I get the distinct impression that in the middle of an epidemic of pnumonia, Joe would be upset if the doctors didn’t take out time to find synonyms for that tired old word “pneumonia.”

I have NOT enjoyed living in a world where all discussion stayed the same for fifty years. But the simple fact is that nothing has changed. The dialogie today is exactly the same as it was fifty years ago: people saying silly things and insisting hat we take them seriously because they say they represent sophistication and others taking them seriously. I refuse to give them the benefit of describing something differently that is the same.

When you give them the benefit of synonyms and so forth, you let them off the hook. Buckley has gotten PAID to do this for fifty years. There is a whole industry devoted to this called neoconservatism.

They were silly and covered it with sophisticattion. Now they’re silly and cover it with neoconservatism.

I won’t do it, Joe.

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