[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

This faux consensus model seems to be in play on just about every liberal cause, too.

Google the following two words (or phrases):

Diaprax

Delphi Technique

That is what is being done to the American People. Not just by the left either, rather by anyone with an agenda. Their worst nightmare is somebody who won't participate in "the process".

[calcowgirl]

I’ve read about Delphi before.

Heck... I see it being applied here, almost daily. ;-)

It has definitely infested both sides of the ideological spectrum.

[Eroteme]

Diaprax

Delphi Technique

That is what is being done to the American People. Not just by the left either, rather by anyone with an agenda. Their worst nightmare is somebody who won't participate in "the process".

Pretty much sums it up. And, btw, thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious. [insert V8 smack to forehead.] I am aware of Delphi and Diaprax, as I suspect many here are, but putting the word to it in this context is really clarifying. I'm always grateful for reminders of what I know, because I often forget to remember to recall what I know.

[calcowgirl]

I just happened upon this quote I had filed away and thought it was appropriate for this thread.

"The battle will be lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away,
but when Americans become so ‘adjusted or conditioned’ to getting along
with the ‘group’ that when they finally see the threat, they say,
‘I can’t afford to be controversial.'"

--Gus Hall, former USA Communist Party Chief