Humanizing The Other

[fritterfae]

Peter Laarman over at Religion Dispatches has a new piece entitled "Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail."  In it he looks at the discourse methods employed by the liberal religious left in an attempt to influence the conservative  religious right, and how those arguments fall flat against the immovable object of conservative theology.  But he

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[kitten_goddess]

"When the collective can't get together one a single issue, there's no hope for anyone in political power to bother with it at all."

Thank you. The right has known this forever, so that's why they've gotten so much of their agenda accomplished. They pick one issue, focus on it, and then hammer like crazy. Instead of doing that, we diffuse our energy into signing fifteen online petitions here, giving money to two left-wing causes there, etc. It's ridiculous.