Bold As Love
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How I have personally educated people....well....my medium has been the internet, and I've spread the word through various forum settings. Length of time I've been working to accomplish it: about 6 years.
I consider the time to have been successful, as I know that one person adopted anarchism after reading my stuff, and that particular venue has multiple Paul supporters present (and a couple of them are members here). I like to think that my keeping the message present in political discussions there for an extended time had at least SOME impact.
If you don't know the message, you can't spread the message. So job #1 for many should be learning the message. Once you understand the philosophy, you will be able to view ANY issue through the lens of freedom, and know what the answer is.
After a while, it becomes second nature. This isn't something that happens overnight, though. It takes a while.
The biggest hurdles you'll face:
1. If you don't know the message, don't try to preach it because you'll be taken apart by the opposition and be made to look the fool.
2. If you have a thin skin, don't try to preach it because when you get really good at it (when you understand it and it's become second nature to you), the opposition will call you every name under the sun.
3. If you have a short fuse and an uncontrollable temper, don't try to preach it because you'll invariably get pissed off and want to cuss someone out. Do that, and they've succeeded in taking you off your message - which is exactly what they wanted. You'll destroy your own credibility and therefore, also the credibility of the message with the audience that saw you lose it.
So basically, the steps are learn the message, don't let the namecalling hurt your feelings, and don't show anger - just plow onward and keep hitting the message.
(For clarification: I am an AN-archist. Ron Paul is a MIN-archist. If you don't know the difference...you have a lot of work to do.)
that is an excellent response!
