I'm impressed..

[Fumesucker]

Impressed with the sheer amount of effort going toward convincing a tiny and irrelevant minority that they are completely and utterly wrong in everything they think, do and say while at the same time trying to convince that tiny minority that their support and votes are critical.

Eh, I was a ten percenter when Bushie was at ninety percent popularity and I don't mind being a ten percenter now either.

Indeed, I'm more comfortable as part of a tiny minority, when too many people agree with me I start wondering what I'm getting completely wrong.

Edited for clarity..

[Barack2theFuture]

1. K&R

Fellow ten percenter.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. A proud member of that club since 1961.

[havocmom]

3. LOL Yep. If we are so unimportant, why are some pushing us so hard?

They keep up this two faced lie and it is getting pretty pathetic.

[gkhouston]

12. Yes, but kind of amusing, too, in a strange way. WTF, I've been an oddball my whole

life. Why be normal now?

[piratefish08]

4. irrelevance has never felt as powerful as it does right now.

[babylonsister]

5. Ha!

Good line. I think. :D

[gkhouston]

13. Bask in your punyness! Bask, I say! n/t

[TheKentuckian]

6. Proud 10% here, I could give a crap if my stances are popular and mainstream

Mainstream has generally be a fucked up place to be.

[jannyk]

7. Fellow 10% er giving you a big kick and rec!!! nt

[mike_c]

8. yup, it's weird, isn't it...?

Someone earlier said it was odd that we seem simultaneously irrelevant and ruining EVERYTHING at the same time.

[gkhouston]

16. When you put it that way, it sounds like we figure prominently in someone's

therapy sessions. :rofl:

[LWolf]

9. All of that effort directed at the "marginal fringe."

What isn't right in this picture?

Either we're the "fucking retarded/drugged crazy fringe," in which case they can safely ignore us, or our voices and votes count for something.

Since they aren't ignoring us, I'm going to go with door # 2.

Of course, one way to address their concerns would be to give us a place at the table. But that was never the intent. The intent was to use our donations, energy, time, and votes, to insure election victories, and leave us in the wind the rest of the time, using the "so you'd rather have mccain/don't look there, look over here sleight of political hand/we don't have the votes/we haven't had enough time/we never promised you a pony/the boogie man is going to get you if you don't shut up and get in line" propaganda to keep us in line.

[Recursion]

20. What "effort"?

A comment by Gibbs, and an expletive by Rahm a few years ago.

That's being ignored, not being pushed.

[geek tragedy]

10. In close elections, every fool's vote matters. nt

[Fumesucker]

11. Yep, I was a fool when I wasn't part of the ninety percent that worshiped Bushie..

And I'm a fool now that I'm not part of the ninety percent that think the sun shines out of Obama's ass.

Funny how that works, innit?

[EFerrari]

14. If we were a tiny minority, Gibbs would not bother. n/t

[me b zola]

34. +100000

You have a way about being correct about oh so many things. :)

[mod mom]

15. "irrelevant minority" Have you ever worked at GOTV?

[JI7]

18. would anyone who has use that term ?

[Fumesucker]

22. I talked up the Democrats big time here in my red state hell for the 2008 election..

And caught a great deal of grief for doing so, lost some friends over it even.

Now I don't talk politics IRL any more, it just causes me too many problems for far too little gain. I had a good opportunity the other day and deliberately told someone I don't talk politics, it's just too damn divisive.

I had a little hope when Obama was elected and we got a Dem Congress, from my point of view all they have done is slowed the slide into the oubliette just a touch. That is not what I was looking for.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. The Romantics of Marginality

Argument ad populum in reverse, and just as fallacious.

[Beetwasher]

19. Screeching disinformation and distortions are destructive and counterproductive

No matter how small the minority from which the emanate and no matter from which end of the spectrum.

[ibegurpard]

23. physician heal thyself

on second thought...

[Beetwasher]

27. Wow, Now I'm A Doctor? Cool!

n/t

[Fumesucker]

24. And also no matter how large the majority they emanate from..

Or were the ninety percent who worshiped Bushie not disseminating disinformation and distortions?

The majority can be just as guilty of distortions and disinformation as the minority, no matter how small that minority might be.

Edited because I was distracted when I wrote it..

[Beetwasher]

28. Gee, You Were Distracted, Who Could Have Guessed, I Mean

It's so profound and eloquent. Sort of like "Nyah nyah you too!"

[Fumesucker]

29. Can you refute my point?

Or do you think the majority is always automatically correct and incapable of distortions and untruths?

[Beetwasher]

30. You Have No Point

Since I never claimed any such thing.

My point, which you utterly (intentionally?) miss, is relevant to the OP, since he's claiming some importance has been attached to this screeching minorities vote potential. There is no importance or effect regarding their tiny vote potential, IMO. My problem is not the vote of this screeching minority, it is the negative, destructive effect of their egregious shit flinging.

[Fumesucker]

32. OK, then you don't want or need our votes..

That's cool, thanks for clearing it up.

[Beetwasher]

33. Correct, And I'm Pretty Sure We Never Had Many Of Them To Begin With

So carry on.

[Fumesucker]

35. You Are Starting To Sound Much Like Another Poster..

Thank God It Passed.

[Beetwasher]

36. IOW, All You Have Are (Not So) Veiled Smears, Same As It Ever Was

n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

21. "When too many people agree with me,"

I absolutely know that there is something that I am not seeing. I enjoyed that last line of yours. I have always been beat up for having opinions that no one else has. But I will never sit out a vote because I am not happy---even if I have to write in another name for an office. This tells the candidates on the ballot that 1) yes I did take the time to go to the polls and vote, and 2) no I am not happy with my choices.

[27inCali]

25. Maybe the majority of Liberals think this is a lot of BS

a total waste of fucking time. A lot of whining and reveling in imagined martyrdom. You got outvoted within your own party OK? get over it. We all have opinions on what policies will fix the problems -Your opinion didn't carry the day. Doesn't make you a martyr.

[Fumesucker]

31. Then you don't need my vote, eh?

Why expend all the effort to convince me that I'm irrelevant?

There's post after post on GD right now talking about how "the far left" is irrelevant.

If we are irrelevant then our votes are unnecessary, correct?

[uponit7771]

26. "...completely and utterly wrong in everything they think....", WHO said this?!

I don't think you're wrong in everything you think I think the far left is uninformed on the resources needed to pass a far left agenda

[Hydra]

37. I've happily never been with "The Program"

Not when SCOTUS handed GWB the Presidency, 9/11 or any of the steps along the way.

I wish I could rec your post 1000 times- "Sanity is not statistical," but I never knew how much I loved being an oddball until now.

The crowd is overrated.