It looks to me like I have made a mistake.
Even though I have been a member of Free Republic for some time now, I didn't realize that posting about my concern for family and friends and the ignorance that They and Society in general has adopted would brand me as .. chicken little, delusions of grandeur and, of course, my favorite .. "an anal probe". (didn't it use to be anal retentive?)
Allow me to give you some more descriptors for this posting: cry-baby, wuss, candyass, jerk, momma's boy, girley man, butt spike .. I can think of more but .. To hell with it .. Take your best shot.
Maybe you will wake up someday and realize, None of this is funny.
MC
P.S. I don't know where the forum Vanity/Activism is. Enlighten me?
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You've permitted the keywords to annoy and upset you. Ignore them.
Few of the replies were what I'd consider put-downs, most had a useful thought while not being lengthy.
Addressing your original, valid concern, most of us want to find better ways to communicate truth and a sense of urgency to the naive, apathetic and ignorant--in competition with those powers-that-be that have vested interests in keeping people naive, apathetic and ignorant.
Best approach I've found is identifying what is important to people--by observing and listening--then showing them with examples how they gain or lose according to principles of conservatism. Small doses, over time rather than big doses--except when they clearly want more information. Read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and How to Win Friends and Influence People.
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood" -- from Seven Habits of Highly Successful People.
Cheers.
You hardly ever post anything and since you haven't been here for even two years, yet, post almost nothing at all, with many months between postings, I suggest that you forget posting completely and read FR.
Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst...you are as much of a chicken little as your family is. Please remove the tinfoil.
If you REALLY want to "help" them, print out the factual threads and have them read them, Of course, that means that YOU have to read and understand them as well and forget that garbage you wrote slamming our two party system and the other junk too.
Take whatever good you can find and trash the rest. You asked a good question. Maybe a book like "How to Speak to a Liberal" by Ann Coulter would show some ways to go about it. I think there are other books on the subject also but I don't know what they are.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400054184/sr=1-1/qid=1156090289/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-0923190-4635236?ie=UTF8&s=books