Psychology 101: How to Convert a Pro-War Person to Ron Paul in Minutes
For those of you who thought Ron Paul might have gotten oodles of Republican male hawk converts with his "Gulf of Tonkin" speech last night, please read on:
History is so filled with "excuses" made to motivate troops for battle, that your average pro-war person is not convinced that a particular war is bad because an excuse was made for it.
If a modern Republican male feels that the Iranian regime needs to be replaced in order to make himself feel safe from being suddenly nuked, then he is willing to suspend belief if Bush tells him a dingy attacked a destroyer.
There is a more round-about way to win these people easily to Ron Paul.
For instance, last night RP could have torn John McCain a new one if he had deflected a direct discussion of the war and asked why McCain sent young Americans to war and then took their right to freely use the Internet.
Psychology 101 (and that Carnegie book) says you must not directly challenge someone's beliefs if you really want to win an argument and convert the other person to your side. You have to do it indirectly. You have to build your highway around the granite mountain.
So the best way to convince a pro-war person to back Ron Paul is to NOT challenge that person's belief that the Iraq War, for instance, was the right thing to do.
The way you win someone over is to ask them what the government has ever done that really pisses them off.
Odds are, Ron Paul was the lone fighter who tried to stop the government from doing something bad to them. And you can prove it with a Google or Nexus search. The Congressional Record does not lie and it is mind boggling how Ron Paul is often the only one who voted against a bad law.
This is all you need to do.
They will be loyal to RP from that moment on.
This is what happened with me.
Believe me, it works.
The cost
Focusing on the cost is another way to avoid direct confrontation on the wisdom of our foreign policy.
You can say "reasonable people can differ on whether it makes sense for the US to police the world. But reasonable people can NOT differ on our economic situation. $9 trillion in debt. Almost $3 billion more a day. Borrowing from other countries. Begging Arabs for bailouts of our banks. The dollar collapsing (losing 30% of its value in less than ten years). The economy heading into recession. We can't afford to continue doing what we have been doing."
great post...bump
great post...bump
He should have asked "why is our navy there"?
Socrates, used the method of asking questions to stir peoples minds. And think about it why are our boats out there so that they can have pot shots taken at them, we shouldn't be out there end of story.
By the way, after struggling since Tuesday about the old news letters I got over it wrote 4 letters and sent out 4 copies of RPs book and 4 DVDs to family and friends today. Please do the same tell your families and friends about your ideas; win them over one at a time. Tell them what you believe in.
lots of work to do
lots of work to do
my two cents
back in ancient greece, senators who vote in favor of war will have to go to the frontlines with their sons, so back then senators would have to put up or shut up. you don't get that kind of accountability now. as for people who support the current iraq invasion, if they are of serving age, why not join the army and put your money where your mouth is? it's easy to pay lip service that you support freedom and democracy while hiding behind people who are over there doing the real work. as for myself, knowing the whole truth behind all the nation building, it's common sense not to support any wars.
John Perkins (ex economic hit man)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oARBdBtGenM
Very interesting
Thanks! I've been confronting this reason for opposition more than any other. I had characteristically taken another approach. Rather than calling it a 'No-win' war (no one likes to concede they were wrong or can't win), I make the point: "We've already won the war! Moreover, the Iraqis have nearly 300,000 troops and elected officials. Why are we still there policing the streets? The truth is, if we don't pull out soon, we'll be there forever, like South Korea and Japan. America can't afford to have all these troops around the world when we're 9 trillion in debt and can't support social security."
Already won, good point
Maybe make that 'Saddam and his sons are dead, Iraq has no WMDs, we won years ago. Maybe the next guy will be smart enough not to threaten our allies. But in the meantime, expecting people to love us at gunpoint is naive.'
Already won, good point
Maybe make that 'Saddam and his sons are dead, Iraq has no WMDs, we won years ago. Maybe the next guy will be smart enough not to threaten our allies. But in the meantime, expecting people to love us at gunpoint is naive.'
Thank you for this
information this may help me when speaking to people.
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psyops 101 :how to convert..
Yes, indeed, like labor tax withholdings !!!
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great training! save/print
great training! save/print
HA!
This is great...we need more education here, instead of the gossips and complainers.
Keep this going...please.
Good thinking there
Good thinking there
Janie McCrea Gulf of Tonkin Lie Won the Battle of Saratoga
Thanx. I noted elsewhere on a Gulf of Tonkin thread the following anecdote:
In 1777 the colonists of upper New York State were largely loyalists who did not want to split with England. The British Navy, which had been stopped on Lake Champlain the previous October by the true war hero Benedict Arnold, had refitted in Montreal and was now crashing through the woods between the big lake and the Hudson River.
If the British fleet were to get to the Hudson River, they would have won the war by cutting off New England from everywhere else.
We would be speaking British right now if that happened. :-(
But some wiseass patriot hit upon the sad fact that a nice young American woman named Janie McCrea (daughter of a Presbyterian minister) had just been raped and killed by an indian scout traveling in front of the British advance. He got the word out that it was British soldiers who had raped and killed young Janie McCrea.
Despite the fact that the British immediately denied having anything to do with that war crime (and the British Parliament was to agonize over the tragedy) this emotional propaganda was used to convince the colonists that their own wives and daughters were about to be raped and killed by the British soldiers and they turned against the British and rallied to defeat the British forces at the Battle of Saratoga.
This is widely considered the moment the United States was born (survived birth).
So our country survived birth because of a Gulf of Tonkin style lie.