How to beat the right-wing bloggers!

[Scuba]

Dear DU Colleagues,

I am a regular blogger here on DU, and I also blog on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online (jsonline.com) site. This site is dominated by people who have been suckered by the right wing's divide and conquer tactics, and the abuse I suffer there is sometome hateful, sometimes just comical.

For the last several months I have been using a new tactic, and I think I may be making a dent.

For the most part, I've stopped trying to counter the right-wing comments with logic. I've instead just posted a single fact, with the source for this fact cited. What I've done is expose the ridiculous compensation levels of the business leaders who have suckered these people. When they see that the CEO of this or that corporation is making X million dollars a year, they begin to accept that there is a another side to the issue, one they haven't previously considered.

I use the AFL/CIO executive paywatch site for my source. If you're interested in this site, or this tactic, here is the URL.

http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/

Good luck and thanks for supporting the people over the corporations that are taking away our rights.

Scuba

My apologies for posting this a second time. I'm hoping a more provacative subject title will get more attention.

edited to correct the link

[Billy Burnett]

1. Your link isn't working.

I'm getting a "Page not found".

[Scuba]

2. Fixed it. Thanks for pointing this out.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. your new approach - Chinese water torture for the GOP

The steady drip drip drip will have a huge impact over time, even though you feel like the concrete wall you beat on with your head seems to be getting a dent.

[Scuba]

4. Sometimes it feels like my head is getting the dent. Still, I have...

...observed at least one (hostorically) RW blogger express outrage at the numbers.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Reason that logic and facts don't work with these people...

These people are ignorant; and part of talk radio's strategy is to coddle
these extremely ignorant and insecure people, pull them in and convince them
that they're smarter than everyone else.

Never mind that their brains are being filled with garbage. Glenn Beck is telling
these misfits that they are more patriotic, more thoughtful, more insightful and
loved more by God--if you just believe what comes out of the radio.

These people will not let go of their ignorant notions. No matter how many facts
you throw at them or how outrageous their beliefs are.

For these lemmings to consider another opinion--they first have to consider that
they are not as wonderful and oh-so wise as their radio masters suggest. So, they're
not just giving up their beliefs--they'd be giving up the notion that they're
not a bunch of stupid fools.

Who wants to admit that they've been bamboozled, and that they're not so special
after all--and that they've been swallowing lie after lie, day after day?

I actually had a tea bagger argue with me, after the banks imploded--that the big
problem was that there was TOO MUCH regulation of the banks. Why did this tea bagger
say that? Because the banks needed Americans believing this, so they could get
their bailout and keep the government out of the Ponzi scheme. So, Beck, Limbaugh
and others blasted the soundbytes and convinced these dullards that, yes, the banks
imploded because they were so over regulated.

Facts don't matter. You can argue facts all day long. These people are trauma bonded
with their bizarre beliefs. Because if they realize they're wrong--they also have
to come to terms with how gullible and ignorant they are; and that they really
aren't as wise and special as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity told them they were.