How do you negotiate with crazy people?

[andrewducker]

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

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I mean, I know a lot of, say, Conservatives in the UK have beliefs I don't agree with.  But the vast majority of them, so far as I can tell, just have different experiences to me, and different opinions about how things should be organised.  They don't believe that the leader of the oppositon is the fucking antichrist, or other things that can be disproved by 30 seconds with Google.

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Due to the amounts of money required, it is impossible to get into US politics unless you have a vast personal fortune or are sponsored by big business. Putting a limit on the amount that can be spent on a campaign may address that.

In the UK a party can spend a maximum of £30,000 per candidate on an election campaign. That equates to about £19 million (roughly $28m) on the entire UK election. That would probably just about buy the coffee for a US election campaign.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about getting into politics or running campaigns?