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[Youtube] A young, Black RP supporter on why he supports Paul
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I hate having to color code ourselves because of these smears. It's collectivist.
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I know but I'm selfishly trying to attract forum visitors to see this.
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haha nice cap man. Great job!
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thanks ^^
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You go, dude! I like the way you phrased your decision~
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I laughed my ass off when I watched this. All of this fighting and debating is unnecessary, it's really as simple as you put it
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Yeah, I know what you mean.
The establishment loves it though, thinking it's further dividing people and alienating people. Little do they know, it's having the opposite effect and it's bringing people even CLOSER together. Liberty and freedom and peace UNITE people and how scary that must be for those who love to see people divided and weak. Their smears are as transparent as glass and more and more people are waking up to their desperate lies and seeing the truth. So it may be that things have to be a little "color coded" at first because of how this system has sought to keep us divided for all of these years, but that will eventually fade away.
Once people are united together for the cause of liberty, freedom and peace fighting together against what has been in place for all of this time, there is no stopping it. The snowball is just rolling and rolling getting bigger and more powerful. It's a beautiful sight to see. Black folks, white folks, red folks, male folks, female folks, old folks, young folks....when you are united together fighting for liberty, freedom and peace, the so-called differences between us fade and it's apparent we're just "folks". All right, let me stop rambling, I know I'm preaching to the choir here..
peace.
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I laughed my ass off when I watched this. All of this fighting and debating is unnecessary, it's really as simple as you put it
ha... so true. That was great, miyavi.
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Truth.
The racism accusation is based on such collectivist principles. A better way to combat it is to transcend it. Our innate individual rights are color-blind. When I see all such threads, it makes me feel like we are trying to play the "but I have black friends" card. This strategy is both weak and disingenuous.
The guy in this video is informed and awake: those are the collectivist categories I am interested in - not artificial categories like race.
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I believe that there is only one race: the human race. I hate racial division, and collectivism in all it's forms. However politically, I also understand and apply demographics.
No question it's dissonant. It hurts just like cognitive dissonance even though I know that demographics is the illusion. It incorporates intangibles like cultures and communities that you can't really quantify. We ignore demographics in politics to our own peril.
One day, God willing, we will emerge from our current collectivist nightmare into a world where race matters not at all. In the world we live in today, sadly, race remains an issue. "If you want to defeat the matrix you have to jack in" said the gentleman in the OP and it's true. If we are ever going to achieve King's dream of a society based on character rather than race, then we have to destroy the matrix, and to destroy the matrix we have to jack in.
The good news is that it can be done without sacrificing principle. Here I am, Scotch/Irish and Polish and full blooded American, ran in 2010 as a Republican (and won) in a heavily Democratic district...and won the Black vote.
If society were not already broken, then that would mean nothing. The fact alone that this is remarkable demonstrates that we as a society have not yet moved beyond race. Until we do, I will continue to seek to destroy racial collectivism from the inside by building coalitions around unifying ideas that bring all manner of people together. And part of that is targeting demographics. That's the dissonant part.
In 2010, we reached out to Black citizens in the district with the claim that I am fighting to restore Frederick Douglass's vision for the Republican Party. That is 100% true. Frederick Douglass spent the latter half of his life, and the majority of his political career, as a strict construction Constitutionalist. He fought for liberty, and human and civil rights. The parallels between Douglass's fight and our own are frankly amazing.
In the end, it boils down to selecting messaging that meets your audience. When you go to a group of dairy farmers, talk about raw milk. When you go to a group of gun rights activists, talk about concealed carry and carry in parks. When you go to a gathering of health and medical naturalists, talk about alternative medicine. When you go to a meeting of business people talk about taxes and regulations, and when you go to a meeting populated almost exclusively with Black Americans, talk about Frederick Douglass and why his vision is still important for us today.
It's not pandering unless you are lying, or pretending to do/be/support something you do not in the hopes of getting votes you do not deserve. Why would you talk to dairy farmers about alternative medicine?
I don't like demographic targeting any more than anybody else around these parts, which is to say not very much at all. But like it or not, demographics is a part of politics. I don't like it, but I bite the bullet and do it, because if we don't do it, we don't win.
Just remember, it is very possible to reach different demographics with tailored messaging without giving an inch on principle. It's hard, but it's possible. And alas, it's necessary. Just let's keep our eyes on the prize, and know that we are fighting to eliminate the very collectivist categorizations that we are using to gain access to be in the position to eliminate collectivism.
That last sentence sounds awfully dissonant doesn't it? I can say the exact same thing in a way that makes more sense... "Just let's keep our eyes on the prize, and know that we are fighting to eliminate the very matrix that we are using to gain access to be in the position to eliminate the matrix."
Do you feel that little squeezing sensation on the brain? Yeah, me too. One day society WILL finally move beyond race until we are (mostly) just the human race. There will always be reprobates, of course. Until then, for the purpose of achieving political victory, we will have to account for racial demographics. What we DO with that political victory, well, that's what determines whether we are principled champions of human rights, or despicable hypocrites who deserve to be dropped down the memory hole.
So I've mostly come to terms with addressing racial demographics in politics. I may not like it, but I recognize it's necessity.
my 2¢
No question it's dissonant. It hurts just like cognitive dissonance even though I know that demographics is the illusion. It incorporates intangibles like cultures and communities that you can't really quantify. We ignore demographics in politics to our own peril.
One day, God willing, we will emerge from our current collectivist nightmare into a world where race matters not at all. In the world we live in today, sadly, race remains an issue. "If you want to defeat the matrix you have to jack in" said the gentleman in the OP and it's true. If we are ever going to achieve King's dream of a society based on character rather than race, then we have to destroy the matrix, and to destroy the matrix we have to jack in.
The good news is that it can be done without sacrificing principle. Here I am, Scotch/Irish and Polish and full blooded American, ran in 2010 as a Republican (and won) in a heavily Democratic district...and won the Black vote.
If society were not already broken, then that would mean nothing. The fact alone that this is remarkable demonstrates that we as a society have not yet moved beyond race. Until we do, I will continue to seek to destroy racial collectivism from the inside by building coalitions around unifying ideas that bring all manner of people together. And part of that is targeting demographics. That's the dissonant part.
In 2010, we reached out to Black citizens in the district with the claim that I am fighting to restore Frederick Douglass's vision for the Republican Party. That is 100% true. Frederick Douglass spent the latter half of his life, and the majority of his political career, as a strict construction Constitutionalist. He fought for liberty, and human and civil rights. The parallels between Douglass's fight and our own are frankly amazing.
In the end, it boils down to selecting messaging that meets your audience. When you go to a group of dairy farmers, talk about raw milk. When you go to a group of gun rights activists, talk about concealed carry and carry in parks. When you go to a gathering of health and medical naturalists, talk about alternative medicine. When you go to a meeting of business people talk about taxes and regulations, and when you go to a meeting populated almost exclusively with Black Americans, talk about Frederick Douglass and why his vision is still important for us today.
It's not pandering unless you are lying, or pretending to do/be/support something you do not in the hopes of getting votes you do not deserve. Why would you talk to dairy farmers about alternative medicine?
I don't like demographic targeting any more than anybody else around these parts, which is to say not very much at all. But like it or not, demographics is a part of politics. I don't like it, but I bite the bullet and do it, because if we don't do it, we don't win.
Just remember, it is very possible to reach different demographics with tailored messaging without giving an inch on principle. It's hard, but it's possible. And alas, it's necessary. Just let's keep our eyes on the prize, and know that we are fighting to eliminate the very collectivist categorizations that we are using to gain access to be in the position to eliminate collectivism.
That last sentence sounds awfully dissonant doesn't it? I can say the exact same thing in a way that makes more sense... "Just let's keep our eyes on the prize, and know that we are fighting to eliminate the very matrix that we are using to gain access to be in the position to eliminate the matrix."
Do you feel that little squeezing sensation on the brain? Yeah, me too. One day society WILL finally move beyond race until we are (mostly) just the human race. There will always be reprobates, of course. Until then, for the purpose of achieving political victory, we will have to account for racial demographics. What we DO with that political victory, well, that's what determines whether we are principled champions of human rights, or despicable hypocrites who deserve to be dropped down the memory hole.
So I've mostly come to terms with addressing racial demographics in politics. I may not like it, but I recognize it's necessity.
my 2¢
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[sarcasm]
We should keep pushing this meme, I can see the headlines now:
Ron Paul: Blacker than Obama
[/sarcasm]
Seriously though, this knee-jerk reaction of finding black spokespersons to defend Ron Paul seems like pandering, which is something Ron doesn't do and my opinion is that it might look bad to black people both within and outside the movement. But I'm not black so just "might".
We should keep pushing this meme, I can see the headlines now:
Ron Paul: Blacker than Obama
[/sarcasm]
Seriously though, this knee-jerk reaction of finding black spokespersons to defend Ron Paul seems like pandering, which is something Ron doesn't do and my opinion is that it might look bad to black people both within and outside the movement. But I'm not black so just "might".
I agree and I'm black, we dont need black peoples permission to believe ron paul isn't racist. white guilt and collectivism is worst than racism. all that matters is that ron paul gets elected and even more that God is glorified.
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These letters are having a bad effect (for now) people hearing Ron Paul is a racist 24/7 in the media that don't know anything about Ron Paul. All this past week when I'm wearing Ron Paul hats, shirts, sign waving there's people saying I better check myself, asking me why I'm promoting a racist, pulling out the smartphones showing me quotes, asking me why I hate Jews, Its getting kind of wild. We got to combat this with calm.
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