I have often chided people on the American Left for our failure to make

organized attempts to communicate with people who do not agree with us.

 

I have represented this idea here, to Shamir readers before, including in

the earliest posts of mine here. We must understand, I have beseeched

people to realize, that “politics is a numbers game, and the numbers are

VERY large, and that the object of the game is to get the most people on

our side. To do that, we must communicate with them”.

 

I had an essay posted here early on, before I was even yet a member of the

group, that argued that winning the support of the grossly misinformed and

deeply bamboozled people who have rallied to Trump’s banners, (to use them

as but one example), are mission critical to our success. We simply cannot

achieve our goals without the support of this huge segment of the yeomen

folk of the nation.

 

For some reason, the Left cannot seem to understand what seems so plainly

obvious to me. No one ever presents an argument against this, they just

won’t, and don’t, do it, or even TRY to do it.

 

Rather than make any attempt to try to communicate with those people, the

Left instead takes great enjoyment in feeling and expressing a smug sense

of righteous moral superiority to those people. And then, in the next

breath, they enjoy talking about the lofty ideals of ‘socialism’, and how

we’re going to overthrow capitalism and build socialism in America.

 

Yea….folks… sure… sure. We’re going to build a society on a foundation of

cooperation and compassion, while the largest single block of the American

working class, amounting to tens and tens of millions of people, hates u

and therefore opposes us.

 

Sounds like a great plan.... Should work great....Where do I sign up?

 

I have tried to get people to understand that building channels of

communication through which we can communicate with these people, (as well

as with ALL the common people, with VERY large numbers of people), is our

most crucial task. If we do not accomplish this task, we will fail to

achieve our goals.

 

It is every bit that simple. If we do not accomplish this crucial task, we

will fail.

 

How? How do we do that? Well….. I have a plan. (I've mentioned it here

before). Will it work? Lord god I don’t effin' know. I do think it will. In

fact, I am VERY confident that it will. But the only way to know, for sure,

is to try it out.

 

Anyway…..besides briefly mentioning this grandiose plan, which may or may

not work, (anyone else got one?), that’s not what I want to talk about

right now.

 

I want to talk about a much less grandiose, and much more eminently

practical and immediate 'plan' that we could very easily do now. Being less

grandiose, it is not the sort of plan that is going to accomplish our

goals, but it is something we can do NOW, that would advance us at least in

the general direction of our goals.

 

I mentioned in a post earlier today that I made the conscious decision,

many years ago, to apply whatever facility I have with the language to

attempts to communicate with people who do not agree with me.

 

I have had work published now and then, and like any other human, it is

gratifying to me to see one’s name in print, and have others admire one’s

work. What I realized many years ago, however, is that we already had

plenty enough excellent writers publishing excellent writing addressed to

people that agree with us. This writing has GREAT value, for MANY reasons.

But it is NOT, for the most part, read by people who disagree with the

writers. It is read by people who agree with the writers, and applaud the

writers for their good writing.

 

Most of the pieces I ever had published I didn’t even submit for

publication. They were made as comments somewhere, and someone contacted me

 

and asked if they could publish them. (And I have always told people that I

always consider that anything I write is in the public domain, and anyone

 

can feel free to post it, or share it, or publish it, anywhere, as they see

fit, without additional permission, (the exception being, of course, a

private correspondence in which I specifically request confidentiality).

 

I mentioned in an earlier post today that Israel and its American Zionist

supporters have organized brigades of operatives to read and post comments

in the comments sections of articles in American newspapers. (In other

nations as well, but concentrated in the US).

 

Zionists, and before them other Jewish interest groups, in general, are the

most consummate political organizers that all of History has ever seen,

(maybe the Romans, and a few others, came close), and their organization of

brigades of propaganda operatives to function through the available and

fully open channels of mass media, is just an example of their attention to

every detail in doing what is necessary to accomplish their goals.

 

One of the main places I ‘publish’ my work, for example, is in the Boston

Globe newspaper, since I live near Boston. Unlike most people on public

forums, I write under my own real name, and I often tell people that I am

‘in the book’, (which I am, full address and telephone number, and there is

only one of me in the entire state), and that anyone is welcome to give me

a call, or even come on over for a visit, (which, interestingly enough, not

one person EVER has, either called or come over, in all the years I’ve been

writing on that public forum).

 

I have established a widely recognized identity among the Globe's online

readership. Most people hate me, of course, since I am disturbing their

most cherished beliefs. It’s hard to gauge the readership numbers. I assume

that on some days, nobody reads the comments on subjects about which few

even read the articles, (like Ukraine, and/or Syria, for example, which

hardly ever have any comments except mine), but on other days, and/or other

subjects, I think that dozens, and/or hundreds, and maybe occasionally even

thousands, (?), of people read what I have to say.

 

The most important audience I am addressing, of course, the ones whose

minds I most want to affect, is the writers and editors, and believe me,

folks, I guaran-effin-tee ya that a LARGE majority of the staff of writers

and editors at the Boston know my name, (and some of them actually like me,

but many most definitely do NOT, LOL).

 

Here’s an article, for example from a couple or so days ago about a new

maple syrup plant opening in Vermont:

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/17/mapleproduction/OYJXrcBWe58wbBiGqQydYN/story.html

 

Look at the comments to see how a simple local interest story can be used

to draw people into an awareness of the general from the specific.

 

I also initiated a correspondence with the reporter, and caused him to

expand, by some increment, his own thinking process, his own political

consciousness. Will that be reflected in his next article? We’ll see, but I

have often enjoyed the gratification of seeing such seeds I have planted

sprout and grow, (at least in some increment).

 

In another post earlier today I mentioned the relative importance (to me,

at least), of a publication called The Forward, (formerly The Jewish Daily

Forward). The reason this publication is importance to me, even though I am

not Jewish, is because it offers some insight into what Jewish Americans,

and even Jews in Israel, are thinking about, and what they think.

 

I write there quite a bit, which as I explained earlier can be a real

‘adventure’, because the comments section is not moderated to any

considerable degree. (I have had posts censored, but only maybe three or

four out of what must be hundreds). It is a real wild west saloon

atmosphere sometimes, (actually usually, LOL), although I look for every

opportunity, (which do exist), for reasoned discussion with thoughtful

people who are Zionists.

 

Many of the commenters are writing from Israel itself, and I’ll tell ya’

what, folks, you wanna talk about some crazy ass muhfudgers? Whew!!! If you

want to know just how virulently hateful and racist, and just

pathologically dingbat nutball CRAZY that extremists in Israel are, you can

find out first hand, virtually in real time, just by reading the comments

sections to articles in The Forward.

 

Here is a recent article about the brilliant young Jewish American woman

who got canned by the Sanders campaign because it came out that a couple of

years ago she had told Bibi to f*ck off. (Is this a ‘family list’, or can I

 

stop using asterisks and euphemisms? I’m just an old carpenter, and on the

job, among carpenters, about every other word starts with ‘f’ or ‘sh’).

 

If anyone is interested, they can see the response I made to some more

thoughtful comments by a Zionist, a man named Moe Fried. I had conversed

with him before, at some length.

 

You can also see how I dealt, (or tried to), with a spirited young knuckle

dragger. (Young bucks are always so funny, in how they remind us of the

fools we ourselves once were). I knew him from a previous conversion as

well. His schtick is really rather mild here, but gives a bare sample of

what one must be prepared to confront. (I’m tellin’ ya’, there are MANY

crazy people who are monstrously PROUD of being the most virulently ugly

racist extremists that you could possibly imagine).

 

Here’s the article:

 

http://forward.com/opinion/339104/why-it-was-right-to-suspend-simone-zimmerman-from-bernie-sanders-campaign/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Image_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202016-04-21&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20Monday-Friday

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Anyway…..Don’t mean to bore everybody by going on and on. I’m just hoping

to get more people to realize, (and I’m sure that many here already do),

that there is an open channel of public mass media communications fully

available to us that can be used to access the minds and belief systems of

people who do NOT agree with us, and that these are the very people who are

most important for us to communicate with.

 

If we were half, or half again, the organizers that the Zionists are, we

would have organized cadres of writers writing in every metropolitan

newspaper in America, and every other online publication that we can find.

 

But we’re NOT, (half, or even nearly half again). Why not? THAT is THE

question.