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raymor · 10-08-2011, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by kane

They were talking about protests last night on Bill Maher and he asked one of the panelist who was a former republican strategist how she would help them better communicate and she said that
one of the problems is that nobody really knows what they want.
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I don't think they would adopt a "get unions out of elections" stance. Unions have been part of elections forever. If they are against the ruling they are likely against the part of it that would allow a company to spend millions to help a candidate out in the form of commercials etc in hopes that they would then have a seat at the table of that person's administration when it came to making certain legislation. It seems like the protesters are fairly pro-union, but it is hard to know for sure.

Indeed I don't think they would actually WANT to have the ruling reversed if they knew what the ruling said - that unions, their own protest organizations, and other organizations can practice free speech, and support a candidate who they believe will support them. If you asked them "should your organization (which is incorporated) be allowed to support a candidate?" I'm sure they works say yes. Yet, they are protesting the ruling which gives them that right.

Based on this kind of stuff, I don't think it's a communication issue. I think nobody knows what they want because indeed NOBODY, including themselves, knows what they want. They simply have no idea of what is wrong or what they want, except they are pretty sure it's George Bush's fault. I wish I were there to ve able to ask them "do you think MoveOn.org should be allowed to exercise free speech? If so, why are you protesting a ruling that let's them do so?" I don't think they would have any idea about that. Not they fail to communicate their thoughts effectively, but that they simply haven't thought about the effects of the ruling at all. It affects labor unions probably more than any other type of corporation and from what I can see the lprotestors haven't spent ten seconds to consider that.