Let me go out on a limb here. I'm guessing most of you who are in strong support of this video are very young people. Using that kind of language may work well in your circles, but, in general, it runs away older Americans. You know, the people in the Republican Party that we are trying to sway.
So while using this language may help YOU get YOUR frustration out, it will do very little to sway any Republicans. The same video could have been made without this foul-mouth language and it would have been much more powerful and also would then be something we could share with Americans whose mouths do not reside in the toilet.
I'm not very young, but thanks for assuming.
I do remember being young, though, and going hunting with my grandpa. His senior friends used more profane language than anything I heard in my high school.
I do remember my great grandpa, a WWII veteran, using language that I couldn't repeat in my own home.
I do know my father-in-law, who strictly abstained from swearing in front of his minor children, uses all the words around his Vietnam-era brothers and sisters.
I also know middle-aged pastors who use this language in context - they know that it's not an affront to God to vent frustration, as long as your frustration is not directed toward God.
I don't think that this language is going to drive many people away. And it's a fools-errand to continue to try to appease these people, especially when we are only working with a stereotypical caricature of the group.
I disagree that this video could have been made as powerful without the "f" word. It's a word that evokes reaction. Using "screw" or "jip" just wouldn't have conveyed the same atrocity that Obama or Romney promise to undertake.
My "mouth" does not "reside in the toilet". But that doesn't mean that strong language doesn't have a very specific purpose.
Again, go make a better video. I'm sure Kokesh wouldn't even mind if you used his imagery.
