'When slum organizer Saul Alinsky, with the West Side Organization's militant Negroes and clerics, wanted to meet with the white Detroit rulers, Romney indirectly arranged the meeting, and attended. Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh avoided the rough company'.
"I think you ought to listen to Alinsky," Romney told his reluctant white friends. 'It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices." Said an Episcopal bishop,
'He made Alinsky sound like a Republican.'"
From : http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/002418.htm
Unfortunately this is the real problem. We can't have open discussions anymore.
Why NOT listen to other perspectives?
I make an honest effort to not harp on the Conservatives having been raised as an Eisenhower Republican that turned Democrat and then turned social Liberal and fiscal Conservitive.
But honestly, the Conservitive movement has turned so hard and so far 'right' and turned so hard and far on not compromising that it's becoming less a persepctive then a realistic view.
If we refuse to talk or listen to others simply based on an ideological stand, then we lose so much of the World and so many of it's possiblities.
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