5 responses to “Five Thoughts On Losing Elections (and a referendum)”

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   Meg Rosenfeld

   31/01/2020

   Thank you; this was a good and helpful piece to read on a day when, in all likelihood, those of us in the USA who have been endeavoring to restore justice and truth to our Presidency are going to be informed that we’ve failed.

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   Helen Dean

   31/01/2020

   Great message. We also need people who are prepared to lose for the right reasons even if they never win.

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   Jackie Heatlie

   31/01/2020

   Truly, huge common sense in this. Never let go of ‘Radical Hope’!

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   Marie Craig

   01/02/2020

   I second that!

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   Rosemary Hannah

   01/02/2020

   Yes but. The rain, it raineth every day/upon the just and unjust fella/ but it raineth more upon the just/for the unjust hath the just’s umbrella. It is hugely much easier to win if you feel free to say what you know to be
   popular. If you feel free to discount the complex for the always simple. I know this because over the years I have tried to explain, variously, that a nation’s economy does not work in the exact same way as a household budget, and that trade agreements between countries are not as simple as selling goods at a church sale of work. Or, to put it another way, the huge medical success of the last fifty (plus) years has been vaccination. A short discomfort, a huge level of success. That has not prevented the anti vaccine lobby having huge success in persuading people that an exceptionally safe procedure is seriously dangerous. And at least some of the pro vaccine propaganda has been slick and professional (witness the latest row on TicTok)

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