Lefties rethink election strategy

Deep thinking lefty sociologist, psychologist and author of many books Lillian B. Rubin has been thinking about a winning strategy for 2008. The following two paragraphs conclude a long piece in Dissent and neatly sum up her thinking:

There's much to do in the coming years to build a set of institutions that can begin to compete with the highly organized, enormously well-funded network of newspapers, periodicals, think tanks, publishing houses, and television and radio stations the right already has in place. But no institutions will save us until we find the way to reframe the debate so that it's on our terms, not theirs. That means opening up discussion among ourselves to debate and develop positions and strategies that, while honoring our own beliefs and values, enable us to build bridges across which we can speak to those who now see us as an alien other.

It's not enough to speak in another voice, however. We must learn to listen as well, to develop a third ear so that we can hear beneath their rage to the anguish it's covering up. Only then will we find our way into the hearts and minds of those Americans who have been seduced and exploited by the radical right into "strangling their own life chances." Only then will we be able to stop asking, "Why don't they listen to us?"

Develop a third ear? In the middle of your forehead, maybe. No wait, there's already a dick there ...

The reason average guys like me have no time for lefties is because we're tired of being told how much smarter than us they are.