I think part of the reason for the failure of the left to adequately respond to harper is that new ideas bounce-off of preconceived delusions that people have. "A big rally would bring harper down" is probably flitting through people's minds. So they imagine that a hard struggle involving permanent occupations is a waste of time. Or "the police will shoot us in the street like dogs" keeps Canadian leftists from remembering that (for the time being anyway) Canada is not a total despotism with absolutely no legal protections for basic human rights. (How someone could simultaneously think that Canada is a lawless human rights abuser, and that we can and should still protest, is an incoherent delusion I can't begin to understand.)
Or, there's the possibility that when people hear a sentence with more than two or three words in it, they get tripped-up by the complexity of it all and think you're saying something that you're not, and the whole effort was a waste of time.
Whatever it is, it stinks!
Or, there's the possibility that when people hear a sentence with more than two or three words in it, they get tripped-up by the complexity of it all and think you're saying something that you're not, and the whole effort was a waste of time.
Whatever it is, it stinks!
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"Or, there's the possibility that when people hear a sentence with more than two or three words in it, they get tripped-up by the complexity of it all and think you're saying something that you're not, and the whole effort was a waste of time."
Yeah, because we're all idiots.
Anonymous,
We ARE all idiots at least some of the time.
But we're all we have.
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