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September 02, 2004
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
- John Stuart Mill

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Or in the case of not-so-great movements: ridicule, discussion, adoption, collapse, petulant whining.


Posted by Julian Morrison at September 2, 2004 08:24 PM

Sometimes it feels like libertarians went straight from ridicule to petulant whining.


Posted by R C Dean at September 2, 2004 09:31 PM

Liberals traditionally prefer to move their ideas in this manner: petulant whining, adoption.

On the other hand a Lib in good standing will respond to the ideas of others such: name-calling, rejection, ridicule.


Posted by Blogbat at September 2, 2004 09:53 PM

I'm not sure I've got to the ridicule stage, yet. I'm still at fear of immolation.


Posted by Guy Herbert at September 3, 2004 01:18 AM

This is a mis-quote. What J.S. Mill actually said was:

'Every great movement must experience the Three Stooges: Larry, Curly and Mo.'


Posted by David Carr at September 3, 2004 03:04 AM

Have you been getting lib dem visitors???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3621340.stm

Maybe all is not lost for the Lib Dems, but can we get the Tories to make similar noises?


Posted by Rob Read at September 3, 2004 11:59 AM

I guess New Labour took those stages in reverse order.


Posted by Ian Bennett at September 3, 2004 12:38 PM

Sounds like Gandhi: "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."


Posted by David Gillies at September 3, 2004 10:34 PM
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