Companies Pressure Employees to Vote for Romney

[GrassrootsConservative]

Nope, I provided concrete examples. I'm just speaking to an audience of rightists here and therefore fail automatically.

The first sentence is a lie, the second sentence is truth.

[Mister D]

Nope, I provided concrete examples. I'm just speaking to an audience of rightists here and therefore fail automatically.

You provided concrete examples of someone giving his opinion on how business will be if BO is reelected. It's a non-story.

As for your martyr complex, I hope you don't choose the $#@! doll.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by IMPress Polly
"Nope, I provided concrete examples. I'm just speaking to an audience of rightists here and therefore fail automatically."

You take "evidence" from Chris "Tingly Leg" Mathews and blame the audience for your failure. My god, you are an Obama supporter. You posted nonsense based on the ramblings of a maniac and you blame the audience.

I am curious, though. What is your take on President Obama's administration illegally pressuring companies who do business with the government to not notify employees of pending lay-offs? Is that coercive? We know it's illegal but would you consider that coercive?

[IMPress Polly]

patrickt wrote:
You take "evidence" from Chris "Tingly Leg" Mathews and blame the audience for your failure. My god, you are an Obama supporter. You posted nonsense based on the ramblings of a maniac and you blame the audience.

Yeah, I probably should've tried harder to make the argument or something, but I wouldn't have to elsewhere. I've just realized that this simply a receptive audience to anything that I might say so...what's the point? Why bother? I'm debating whether to just leave.

Chris isn't a "maniac" by the way, but...oh, why bother? Forget it, you're not listening. I'm done with this thread. I'll let you know if I decide to leave the forums altogether.

[Mister D]

Yeah, I probably should've tried harder to make the argument or something, but I wouldn't have to elsewhere. I've just realized that this simply a receptive audience to anything that I might say so...what's the point? Why bother? I'm debating whether to just leave.

Chris isn't a "maniac" by the way, but...oh, why bother? Forget it, you're not listening.

If your here to have your opinions validated by other members than that might be a good idea.

[IMPress Polly]

I'm here to dialogue with people, but it rarely seems to matter how hard I try. I can write ten paragraphs and get nothing but one-sentence dismissals. It's frustrating, you know?

I'm no longer talking about this particular thread, but just in general. It's demoralizing to always be dismissed no matter what. It might be more productive to take my thoughts elsewhere.

[Mister D]

I'm here to dialogue with people, but it rarely seems to matter how hard I try. I can write ten paragraphs and get nothing but one-sentence dismissals. It's frustrating, you know?

I'm no longer talking about this particular thread, but just in general.

I wrote a much longer dismissal of your claims regarding Brown versus the Board of Ed albeit it was a bit off topic. A lot of members appreciate the effort you put into posts. I have seen them say so. This one, however, was a real stretch.

[Yelserp Sivle]

Yeah, I probably should've tried harder to make the argument or something, but I wouldn't have to elsewhere. I've just realized that this simply a receptive audience to anything that I might say so...what's the point? Why bother? I'm debating whether to just leave.

Chris isn't a "maniac" by the way, but...oh, why bother? Forget it, you're not listening. I'm done with this thread. I'll let you know if I decide to leave the forums altogether.

If no one is buying what you're selling and that has you discouraged then you're here for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps you have a bad product.

[IMPress Polly]

Yelserp Sivle wrote:
If no one is buying what you're selling and that has you discouraged then you're here for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps you have a bad product.

Well of course. I know what the "right product" for here would be. I'd get a bazillion Thanks and non-stop compliments if I just proclaimed myself a libertarian, Obama a radical Marxist, and blah blah blah blah blah. But that's just not what I think. That wouldn't be real. I have to be me. You know what I mean?

Anyhow, I'm not trying to "convert" people to my politics broadly. I know that's not going to happen. This is a right wing message board. I know that I was REALLY invited here for the reason that all progressives are: to be mocked and humiliated by the majority for their amusement. I just thought it possible to maybe make something productive out of it by starting some serious discussions of the issues. Maybe I could learn something too, you know? But you don't learn much when nobody engages you. Sometimes people here do, but it's so rare that it's just depressing.

[Chris]

I'm here to dialogue with people, but it rarely seems to matter how hard I try. I can write ten paragraphs and get nothing but one-sentence dismissals. It's frustrating, you know?

I'm no longer talking about this particular thread, but just in general. It's demoralizing to always be dismissed no matter what. It might be more productive to take my thoughts elsewhere.

Problem, polly, is, if your long argument is based on a false premise, then simply pointing out the false premise is sufficient, the argument falls like a house of cards.

Your OP is not an example of an employer threatening employees, as other have pointed out, but an employer who feels threatened by the existing regime. What he's voicing is a concern many businesses have about an uncertain future and reason for the long recovery from what should have been a shallow and show recession.