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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (16493)	6/15/2002 2:50:46 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

You bet you can beat me in chess! Very possible! And it's no big deal if it ever happens. You see, sometimes a third-class player plays a first-class game, and a first-class player sometimes plays a fourth-class game. This sort of thing happens all the time!

To: lorne who wrote (16493)	6/15/2002 8:10:39 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

You were sadly mistaken in thinking I was easily riled by my detractors' posts. Not so! There is something which some folks like you don't seem to understand. And that is, if someone says something outrageous about you, it is necessary to counter their assertions immediately. Simply because if you choose to ignore them, some unknowing folks who don't think deeply will think after repeated allegations had gone unanswered that you are either guilty as charged or there is some substance to what was said about you. George Dukakis found this out to his cost when he was running for the presidency against Bush's dad. Dukakis chose to ignore certain false and malicious allegations made against him by his enemies thinking that by not responding they would stop attacking him. He mistakenly assumed that by ignoring all the false charges, decent folks will think highly of him and tell his enemies to shut up or to vamoose and scram! But he was sadly mistaken. In the end, simple-minded folks thought he was guilty of all the false charges made against him. Result: he lost popular support and was easily defeated by Bush Sr. You would imagine the damage was over after the elections. Not so! The labels that were "pinned" on him remained long after the election was over and they continued to hurt him and his family like gangbusters! So, understanding the Dukakis Principle, I never let up responding against those folks who openly declared they were out to get me. Because I took that precaution I am still happily posting on SI. And I even had fun doing it. So, my unfailing and prompt responding to posts does not necessarily mean I am easily riled. If I appear to be so, it is due to others' perception. That's all. But why did Dukakis make that terrible mistake? Simply because he came from a place where decent folks like him tend to ignore allegations made against a person if that person would ignore the allegations as trivial or of no consequence. Not so in Amerika! Don't forget that the majority of Europeans who came over soon after WWII were mostly naive, uneducated or poorly-educated factory hands and farmers. And the American system of education, even to this day, still leaves a lot to be desired. It is not an exaggeration that many high schools today are nothing more than cheap diploma mills, and in many instances, the diplomas issued are not worth the paper on which they were printed! BTW, does that make me a US basher/enemy for telling the truth like it is? So, in order to be taken for a sucker, one has to be vigilant and fight back to put malicious folks in their place or make them bite the dust! Get it?