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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (16346)	4/7/2010 6:52:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Indeed, so yammering about them accomplishes nothing in terms of moving that issue forward. It inspires the core and maybe fills the coffers but it loses votes with Independents. So your point is something like "Lighten up on the rhetoric in areas where your likely to alienate people, but probably can't get anything done (even in terms of slowing down the movement against you) anyway"? That often isn't a bad idea. Esp. if your talking about major figures in a party or other coalition attempting to gain power. Which doesn't necessarily mean abandoning the ideas. If they are unimportant than maybe you just drop them. If they are important the effort becomes more of a long run effort to convince people, and less a matter of pushing a losing agenda immediately and in very strong terms, at every opportunity. Edit - OTOH reducing even on issues where your side has less power to control things, down playing the issue makes it likely to at least give up your ability to resist change effectively. If you really can't slow down the negative change, than it makes sense to use your energies elsewhere, but places where that is both true, and obvious, might not be very common.

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