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The Magistrate

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Mon Sep-10-07 03:40 PM
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109. Do You Really Think So, Sir?

The point of any political action must be to gain mass support, and it should be tailored to that end. What you are describing is not political action, but the sort of posturing known as 'preaching to the choir', which, when the choir amounts to one in ten, by your own count, can never achieve any real effect in political life. The point is not to make a small number of people feel good about themselves, but to get the largest possible number to oppose or agree with certain views....

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