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To: Neocon who wrote (2606)	2/20/2002 8:55:03 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Part of the problem is that they have achieved some of their objectives, and are scraping the bottom of the grab bag of nostrums, but a lot of the problem is that there are far better candidates for charitable or government intervention. The Great Society was largely a bust, ineffectual at best, destructive at worst. Well, then, why don't you write something that makes those points rather than gratuitously lambasting liberals? The pinheads think they are morally superior. Maybe they need someone to ridicule that notion, from time to time. The folks on the other side think they are morally superior, as well. Perhaps that calls for reminding them, from time to time, that their moral superiority is predicated on an "invisible friend." Surely you appreciate how effective ridicule is in getting people to reassess their points of view! <g> You say "that won't work", but that is not self- evident. Try putting the shoe on the other foot. Try writing that piece from the other side and see how it feels. Well, maybe you'd have to get Mephisto or TP to write it for you. Try looking at the premise that Johnny can't read because conservatives are expending resources on frivolous issues. They're a bunch of inbred, bigoted, gun-toting, mean-spirited, superstitious rednecks, after all. Now, how likely do you think it is that they might read that, immediately see the error of their ways, and quit pushing for the teaching of Creationism, which is no less a distraction and no less frivolous than Heather, so that the schools can focus on reading and math? If they reacted constructively, it would be a genuine miracle. Seems to me that you want to tell people to get off their high horses and be reasonable--to get their priorities straight. Maybe you want to focus it on liberals rather than their frivolous counterparts. Fine. But skewer them because they waste community resources, not because they're (eeeew!) liberals.