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.
Sometimes it feels like libertarians went straight from ridicule to petulant whining.
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.
I’m not sure I’ve got to the ridicule stage, yet. I’m still at fear of immolation.
This is a mis-quote. What J.S. Mill actually said was:
‘Every great movement must experience the Three Stooges: Larry, Curly and Mo.’
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?
I guess New Labour took those stages in reverse order.
Sounds like Gandhi: “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”