DNC seeks input from public for Democratic platform

The Hill ^ | 7/08/08 | Klaus Marre

[mdittmar]

The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday that it is seeking input from the public in all states as it is drafting its 2008 national platform.

The party is asking ordinary Americans to host and attend meetings “as an opportunity to exchange ideas and share perspectives on the challenges we face,” according to a DNC release. The party and the campaign of presidential candidate Sen. Barrack Obama (Ill.) will send policy experts to “as many meetings as possible to serve as facilitators.” The platform committee will then use the written summaries of the meetings in crafting the Democratic agenda.

“This process will empower Americans in all 50 states to make their voices heard as they help write the document that embodies our party’s values and vision for the future,” said DNC Chairman Howard Dean.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano will oversee the effort. She will be aided by national and state lawmakers, Obama campaign and DNC officials and union representatives.

“Barack Obama believes that every American should be able to contribute to the Democratic platform, just as record numbers have participated in this campaign,” said Obama spokesman Steve Hildebrand. “It’s not the lawmakers in Washington who live the day-to-day reality of our policies – it’s workers, teachers, parents and first responders – everyday Americans who just want to the best for their families.”

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

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[MinuteGal]

"This process will empower Americans in all 57 states to make their voices heard."

BS.

It pays to read leftist propaganda closely. The article continues,

"The party and campaign of Senator Obama will send policy experts to as many meetings as possible to serve as FACILITATORS."

To those who have studied leftist techniques, this is a prime example. It's a variation of the old liberal "group therapy" technique, where a number of small circles of naive participants are manipulated into correct thinking by a trained leader in each circle. Being in a group stifles independent thinking and negates resistance to pre-ordained conclusions. The naifs always end up thinking the results of the discussion are their own ideas.

(This, incidentally, is precisely how the League of Women Vipers operate in arriving at its left-wing recommendations on public issues).

With the Obama operatives fanning out across the 57 states to conduct these group-think sessions, you can be sure that the recommendations from the "voices of the people" will result in a Democrat convention platform entirely tailored to the goals of the socialist Messiah.

Freepers, to the barricades! Every daily press release about or from Obama must be parsed and dissected. This man is satanically cunning, creatively Machiavellian, continually on the offensive and his slimy tentacles are extending everywhere.

We either suffocate or stay on our toes. Which will it be?

Leni

[KansasGirl]

“I wonder if they really said “ordinary Americans.” As in, those little people who aren’t members of the ruling class? I thought we were all just Americans.”

Great point. What a bunch of elitists.

[KansasGirl]

The Democrat/Socialist propaganda outlet (mainstream media) is going to run with this.

[rrrod]

Deprot RATS?

[mtntop3]

They're not interested in opinions - but in rounding up bunches of empty heads to march robotically in Obama-step for the campaign.

[toddlintown]

I want them to jump off a cliff. My suggestion.

[DBrow]

MinuteGal, I have been to meetings like this. One rule is that you can only ask “clarifying questions”, you can't challenge a basic premise at all.

The ones I have been to starts with a general meeting, they take some questions, then break up into groups and surprise! Each group has a facilitator, and likely radicals or malcontents seem to wind up in one group, where they can only influence each other.

After this, back to the big group for more “clarification”. It was at the second all-hands group that they pulled the 3x5 card trick, and each question was set up to make it look like agreement.

When the whole ordeal is over, they announce the “consensus opinions”, which for the left are foregone conclusions anyway.

Most participants can't see the whole process because they keep you busy, isolated, and nudged along.

At the end of the day, the organizers announce that consensus was reached, the group as a whole forged a new platform, policy, or whatever, and it was arrived at democratically.

Watch out, FReepers, for these techniques. If you know about them you can easily counter them mainly by questioning the process at the beginning, while the organizers will swoop on you for speaking out of turn and asking questions other than “clarifying questions”.

[DBrow]

http://s1.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=28721

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html

http://www.learn-usa.com/transformation_process/~consensus.htm

Here are some links about these meeting techniques, directed consensus, Delphi meetings, and so forth.

If you are somewhat brazen and learn the techniques, you can topple a Delphi-type meeting. It’s important that you and your posse are not dimed out as a group, nor individuals as troublemakers, until you get into the study groups.