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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (46277)7/21/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Given the choice between liberal and
conservative, he'd prefer liberal, right?

No, no. You don't understand his game. If the newspapers are really liberal, but he can persuade people to believe that they are really conservative, or even centrist, he can redefine liberal as being conservative or centrist, and then his radical views become either centrist or liberal, which makes them more acceptable and offers a chance of persuading more people to believe that he is somewhere close to the mainstream instead of out on the radical left wing.

Basically, he's trying to shift the bell curve leftward to move the center more toward his position.

EDIT: Actually, on 2nd thought, he's leaving the Bell Curve where it is but trying to shift the definition of the x-axis so that the center of the Bell Curve seems to be much further left than it actually is.
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