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CTP (S2E100) Winning Hearts and Minds: Why Some Political Arguments Fail While Others Succeed
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We examine the critical difference between strategically smart and strategically stupid political communication in our 100th (regular Sat's) episodes (plus 80+ MidWeek Guest drops). Effective political persuasion requires focusing on relevant issues that connect with voters rather than sharing inflammatory memes or outdated conspiracy theories.
• The concept of strategic stupidity – sharing content that only generates eye-rolls and mockery
• How focusing on irrelevant figures like the Obamas or Clintons wastes persuasive opportunities
• The importance of discussing economic issues that affect everyone's daily lives
• Using humor strategically to bypass people's defensive reactions
• Understanding the difference between classical liberals who can be persuaded and committed leftists
• Recognizing that the GOP has become the party of working people while Democrats serve elite interests
• The need for independents to choose sides in the fight to restore the American republic
• How sharing factual, relevant information is the only way to change minds and win elections
[20+ Audio platforms scheduled drop 20250517]
We examine the critical difference between strategically smart and strategically stupid political communication in our 100th (regular Sat's) episodes (plus 80+ MidWeek Guest drops). Effective political persuasion requires focusing on relevant issues that connect with voters rather than sharing inflammatory memes or outdated conspiracy theories.
• The concept of strategic stupidity – sharing content that only generates eye-rolls and mockery
• How focusing on irrelevant figures like the Obamas or Clintons wastes persuasive opportunities
• The importance of discussing economic issues that affect everyone's daily lives
• Using humor strategically to bypass people's defensive reactions
• Understanding the difference between classical liberals who can be persuaded and committed leftists
• Recognizing that the GOP has become the party of working people while Democrats serve elite interests
• The need for independents to choose sides in the fight to restore the American republic
• How sharing factual, relevant information is the only way to change minds and win elections
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00:00Welcome to the Constitutionalist Politics Podcast, a.k.a. CTP.
00:07I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard, and that's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12CTP is your no-must, no-fuss, just-me, you, and occasional-guest type podcast.
00:19I really appreciate you tuning in.
00:22As Graham Norton will say, let's get on with the show!
00:25Hello, everyone! Welcome to Season 2, Episode 100!
00:35Yay!
00:38Cause for celebration, I guess, or consternation for many who are probably not too fond this show is on.
00:48Actually dealing in Christitutionalist politics, right?
00:53The whole Bible in full context, our Judeo-Christian foundations as a nation.
01:01And today may be a shorter show, cause it's kind of a recap of a show,
01:10an article I did for TheLibertyBeacon.com from back when.
01:15And I'm not sure offhand now if I have a corresponding show, cause that article might have been written before I was doing the show.
01:27At any rate, what am I talking about?
01:31Strategically stupid.
01:33Some people may be very smart and know a lot of things, but they don't understand strategy.
01:43As I wrote and is in CTP2 book, Christitutionalist Politics 2 book, quotations chapter.
01:59Some people study the art of war by Sun Tzu.
02:04Unfortunately, a lot of USA leaders, and even some generic people involved in politics, studied the art of stupid by Sun Burn, right?
02:21They just have no strategic ability to think while, as the saying goes,
02:27So-and-so is playing 3D chess, and they're playing Pizzlywinks, right?
02:34It's a couple weeks ago, we had the memes episode.
02:42I shared a couple of social media memes and expounded upon, like, joy is our personal responsibility.
02:54How we act, we can't control how others act, but how we react to others and things around us is our responsibility.
03:06And I brought up the King's X song, Black Flag, right?
03:10There was a black flag on my morning, a black flag on my day.
03:14It was up to me how I wanted it to be.
03:20If you're allowing others to manipulate you into acting or reacting like the left always does, engaging in emotional hysterics rather than stopping, pausing, thinking, logically, reason, thought, reactions to situations.
03:44But, of course, also, I'm going to make a note here, fight, flight, in some situations, of course, you don't have time to think.
03:58You only have seconds, in many cases, to react.
04:01Fight, flight, or fade, I'll put in the extended show notes.
04:05Check buzzsprout.com for the transcript, and the extended show notes are in the transcript there, and fight, flight, or fade article will be mentioned in them as bad things happen to good people.
04:25You don't know, based on my book, Terror Strikes Coming Soon to a City Near You, right?
04:31Yes, about terrorism as the main thread, but it's not me trying to sell fear porn.
04:38It's not about death, but life and living.
04:43Hope over fear.
04:45Let me, oh, where'd it go?
04:47Where'd it go?
04:48There it is.
04:49Let me grab.
04:50I wrote these down because otherwise I may forget.
04:55Oh, the green screen's all messed up now.
04:57Say, say, say, notes, notes.
05:02Terror Strikes, yes, about terrorism, but not book about death, but life and living.
05:07Life over death.
05:09Hope over fear.
05:11Faith over despair.
05:13Love over hate.
05:14Good over evil.
05:16Individualism over collectivism.
05:18Freedom over tyranny, family, and friends.
05:22So, indeed, crime in general, let alone terrorism, might happen anywhere.
05:30That's the point, right, of the subtitle.
05:32Terror Strikes Coming Soon to a City Near You.
05:36As I record this today, May the 4th, may the 4th be with you, right?
05:42Star Wars Day, as I also read, it's International Firefighters Day.
05:47So, shout out to first responders, especially firefighters, for your day here.
05:54I support you.
05:56Thank you for your service.
06:00But where was I going?
06:03Right, general crime or terrorism can happen anywhere.
06:07Terror Strikes Coming Soon to a City Near You.
06:10Oh, May the 4th.
06:11Apparently, in Brazil, there was a Lady Gag Me, as I call her, concert bombing plot thwarted, right?
06:22Now, these things have been planned here, too, and you're not hearing how they've been thwarted.
06:29These things can happen anytime, anyplace, and you need to be at least remotely prepared to say,
06:40I will be a thinker, not a panicker.
06:45That if something happens in the fractions of a second you have, you resolve to think before you just react.
06:55Because if you panic and land in that panic group of sheeple stampeding for the exits,
07:04you may make yourself a bigger target and or you put yourself in that stampede of sheeple and could be trampled to death.
07:14Okay?
07:15But today, talking back to the memes that goes back to, I didn't think to mention that during that show.
07:24But today, relates to memes in that strategically stupid.
07:31If you're sharing memes about Big Mike, right?
07:38I have blocked, I can't tell you how many people in the last several days on social media,
07:45and indeed flagged my TheLibertyBeacon.com piece, strategically stupid,
07:52and say to them, this is relevant to the midterms 2026.
07:59Ow.
08:00Bye-bye.
08:01Blocking.
08:02Because I, and hope you all, are on social media for things that make sense.
08:10Things that help win votes for the upcoming midterms 2026,
08:18not just make idiotic comments of and about people regarding Hillary Clinton also, right?
08:29She's relevant today, how?
08:32I get it, yes.
08:34The Obamas and the Clintons are still valid to a degree behind the scenes.
08:42But if you're constantly trotting out things about the Clintons and the Obamas,
08:49you're not dealing in the here and now.
08:52You're strategically stupid.
08:55And what do I mean by that?
08:56If you're doing things that only evoke eye rolls and laughter and them walking away from you,
09:05you're not a serious person in their eyes.
09:08You're not capable then of helping shape real opinion that will turn into votes.
09:17If you're not, if you're dealing in, you know, oh, now, whatever, back to Big Mike.
09:27Oh, look, the Obama daughters, write a post about them.
09:35What are they doing?
09:36I don't know and I don't care.
09:38They are irrelevant unless if they've declared to run for public office.
09:43They are irrelevant right now.
09:47So stop it.
09:49Stop it.
09:50If you're talking about Malia and, oh, I forget the other one, Obama,
09:57rather than the economy, you're being strategically stupid.
10:02You're not helping to shape any votes.
10:05You're going to just be deemed as a hyper-partisan,
10:09engaging in what the left always does, Alinsky personal attacks.
10:16And that doesn't help anything.
10:19We need to be strategically smart and talk about the economy and inflation
10:27and what all is going on,
10:32the things that affect every one of your neighbors around you, your neighborhood.
10:39Those are the important things.
10:41We must stick to that.
10:44We must be thinkers, not those engaging in emotional hysterics.
10:50And I get it, right?
10:51Another show, Conspiracy Theories, Red Pill Strategies, what this is about.
10:57That will also be linked in the episode-related links.
11:04Conspiracy fact versus conspiracy theory, right?
11:11I'm going to call out some people here.
11:13If you're constantly posting about chemtrails, for example,
11:20okay, I get some people are concerned about that.
11:23And as I say in the Conspiracy Theory episode notes,
11:28it does not matter what you, me, we know to be true.
11:35What matters is what we can prove to be true to others,
11:41to convince others.
11:43Again, now, if you show somebody a picture of chemtrails
11:48and a meme on and on about that,
11:53you're mainly going to get eye rolls and laughter.
11:58It's not going to win any votes.
12:01That's what I mean about being strategically smart
12:05versus strategically stupid.
12:08Sharing factual information that people can
12:13and will actually listen to.
12:17They may not like facts being given to them,
12:21but, and joking, comedic relief, right?
12:26Telling jokes is a good way.
12:29I have a show.
12:30I appeared on Wham Radio way, way, way back.
12:34Let me write down that.
12:36Wham joke.
12:38Maybe I can find that episode to link in the show notes.
12:44I'm not sure, but I was talking with Clark.
12:51I'm drawing a blank on his name, Mark.
12:53But anyway, here's the Clark cast show way back when years ago.
13:00Joking can help get past people's defenses.
13:05That's a strategically smart way to do things, right?
13:09A joke about something, and I don't have one offhand, unfortunately, to share.
13:15But if you can present facts in a fun way, in a joking way,
13:21you can get past their defenses of just eye rolls and laughter.
13:27Or in this case, if you're telling a joke, laughter could be good.
13:31But if you're planting the seed of something important to a Democrat,
13:39they would never, ever listen to or entertain.
13:45But you get past their defenses in a joke form,
13:51planting that seed that may grow and, you know,
13:56bring them to a realization later.
13:59And I talk about Dennis Prager in the Constitutionalist Politics book about him.
14:07He is right.
14:08And speaking of memes, going back to memes,
14:11I have a meme I'll try to remember to put in here that I created.
14:15You can lead a liberal to the facts, but you can't make them think, right?
14:21Based on the old force to water, but can't make them drink, think.
14:27And I was wrong to say that.
14:29Dennis Prager is right.
14:31I'm human.
14:32You've heard me say that, right?
14:34Frail, flawed, imperfect.
14:36I can make mistakes.
14:38And I've been wrong in so far as that meme that I will share.
14:44I should have put leftists.
14:45You can lead a leftist to the facts, but you can't make them think.
14:51A classical liberal you may still be able to reach,
14:56like a Brandon Strzok or a Candace Owens or a Tammy Bruce,
15:01who is now part of Trump's cabinet.
15:04Leo Terrell, all former classical liberals that we were able to red pill because we don't deal in.
15:15If we deal in factual stuff over time, we can reach some classical liberals, but never reach a leftist.
15:23And also in quotations chapter CTP2 book, the left, they don't know.
15:31They don't want to know because they do know just enough that if they really knew, their delusional bubble would be burst.
15:41So the whole point here, being strategically smart, how we share things, you know the saying, know your audience.
15:54It's the same thing there too.
15:56Know what you, if you're leading off with, hey, did you see the latest meme about Big Mike?
16:03Or, you know, the latest meme on chemtrails, again, in the right audience, that conversation can be had.
16:13But running into people on the street, at the grocery store, at the diner, at the deli,
16:20they're just going to roll their eyes and laugh at you, not with you.
16:25So that's what this show is about, being strategically smart versus strategically stupid,
16:34and how we approach things, how we deliver things.
16:38And indeed, jokes can get passed through a classical liberal, plant a seed that may then red pill them,
16:47may awaken them from their woke stupor eventually, like those examples I gave.
16:55And, you know, there are so many more examples of people who indeed were former Democrats and no longer associate with it.
17:05Look at Elon, right?
17:07Elon Musk and Doge.
17:09He was a Democrat, and he said, as Reagan did, the party left him.
17:16Well, the party left them decades ago, and it's taken five-plus decades, it seems,
17:24for many of them to start to actually wake up and all those seeds we've sown to actually grow into full thoughts
17:33and them recognizing the GOP is now the party of the people.
17:39It always has been.
17:40We've been labeled as the party of the rich.
17:43Now, the left with quantitative easing policy has always been the party of Wall Street and the rich artificially propping up Wall Street.
17:56I forget the percentage, but at least half of all Americans don't own any stocks.
18:04They don't have a 401k or a pension plan, at least not yet.
18:10So, artificially propping up Wall Street indeed helps the economy as a whole to some degree,
18:21but the price of eggs, the price of gas, the price of bread, the price of milk if they have children,
18:32these are things that affect everybody in everyday situations.
18:38And that is, those are the strategically smart things to talk about rather than other things.
18:48I fully recognize and apologize that my thoughts here weren't all thoroughly connected properly.
18:59I did not articulate very well some of the points that all interrelate here.
19:07But the bottom line being is I'll be back on social media this afternoon.
19:13I'll invariably, inevitably come across someone trying to peddle whatever,
19:20and I'll be responding, you're strategically stupid.
19:25I don't have time to waste on you.
19:27We don't have time to waste with irrelevant things that do not convince anyone to become independent from Democrat
19:40or Republican from Democrat or Independent.
19:43Those, as I often say, sorry, I'll upset some, but independents.
19:50Those who refuse to pick a side.
19:53Remember, Republican.
19:56This is a republic.
19:58Republicanism.
19:59It's right in the name.
20:02You are either with us trying to roar, restore our American republic.
20:08Either you're with us, and yes, there are rhinos and senos.
20:14It's not the uniparty.
20:16It's not all the same.
20:18Remember, our founding documents say we the people.
20:23The GOP is what you allow it to be.
20:28If you're not a delegate, you need to become one to fight to root out rhinos and senos,
20:36to make the GOP, indeed, the republic party it's meant to be,
20:43and indeed is for the most part,
20:45and achieve Republican goals to roar, restore our American republic.
20:52Enough of that change stuff.
20:55Fundamental transformation.
20:58No more of that.
20:59We need to restore our American republic, and we need to be smart.
21:04And those independents, if you're not with us trying to save the republic,
21:11you're with those destroying it.
21:13And if you haven't seen it, if you're unable to figure it out by now,
21:18those distinctions, you know, there's the old saying,
21:25right, I can explain it, I can't understand it for you.
21:30Now, I have no problem with people calling themselves an independent.
21:36I haven't voted for a Democrat in, oh, probably 20 years,
21:41but there were still a few around.
21:44One of the main reasons I got involved in politics in high school at an early age,
21:51my godfather, Mayor Thomas Coogan of Melvindale, Michigan, rest in peace.
21:57But he was a somewhat conservative Democrat back then.
22:03There's no such thing as conservative Democrats these days.
22:07JFK couldn't be a Democrat nowadays.
22:11That party is long gone and destroyed,
22:15but yet some people still refuse to recognize
22:18they are strictly the open borders identity politics party.
22:25They like to talk about millionaires and billionaires,
22:28but they're constantly at million-dollar fundraisers
22:32among their billionaire friends to get money to defeat, right?
22:38They are not the party of the rank and file of the unions
22:42like the GOP currently is.
22:45They are the party of the commie union bosses
22:51who have nothing in common with the rank and file anymore.
22:57Your jobs don't matter to them.
22:59Just the ability to steal do monies from you matters to them
23:05so they can have their lavish parties
23:08and can funnel your monies to left-wing politicians
23:13who harm your ability to have a good life
23:19here in the United States.
23:22Okay, indeed, I'm going to wrap it up there
23:24because, again, I know I've rambled,
23:28covered a bunch of things,
23:29but they all fit under the
23:30Be Strategically Smarter umbrella.
23:35Hope you'll check Buzzsprout for the transcript.
23:39Check out the articles listed in the related links there.
23:45Thank you all.
23:46Take care.
23:46God bless.
23:47Thank you for having tuned in for
23:49a Christianist politics show.
23:52If you haven't already,
23:54please check out my primary internationally available book,
23:57Terror Striped,
23:58coming soon to a city near you.
24:01Available anywhere books are sold.
24:03If you have locally-run bookstores still near you,
24:08they can order it for you.
24:10And let me remind,
24:12over time,
24:12the fancy high-production items will come,
24:15but for now,
24:17for starters,
24:18it's just you
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24:25just straight to key discussion points.
24:28A show that looks at a variety of topics,
24:31mostly politics,
24:32through a Christian U.S. Constitutionalist lens.
24:37So again,
24:37thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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