"Do it for the children!"

"You are trying to manipulate me!" Ever heard that? It is an interesting experience, to be placed in an indefensible position. Do you deny it? Try to convince him/her they are wrong? Argue them into believing that you aren't trying to manipulate them? What can you say? Nothing. That's the point. Talking is trying to convince (manipulate), walking away is making a statement (another form of talking), silence can speak volumes. There are no safe moves. In other words, it's the perfect argument. Check-mate in one move.

This is power! The only question, "How do I apply this to anything but a 'domestic situation'?"

The answer: Come up with something nobody can argue against without implicating themselves.

Nobody wants children hurt. Nobody wants children exposed to "inappropriate" material. Anybody who argues against child protection is arguing for child endangerment. There is no defense. No political entity is going to argue for the abuse or molestation of children, no "protector" is going to allow the discussion to wander away from the "primary issue". Anyone who tries prevent the passage of a law to protect the children is, if not an abuser himself, obviously a supporter of child abuse. (Either is a rather damming charge for a political figure.)

Welcome to the 90's, gentlebeings, and remember not to harm the children!



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