[EM] Re: Long Term CR Strategy

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

If you give a party 0 points, then you're sending them the strongest 
possible message that they aren't good enough.

But your point is that that party might be completely incapable or unwilling 
to become good enough to rate a maximum vote instead of a minimum vote, in 
Approval strategy.

If they know, then, that they're not willing to become honest and get 
anything other than 0 from you, then you can't influence them, as you could 
if you gave them a little to try to at least move them up a little. They 
slightly moderate one monstrously evil policy, among many, so give them 
another point.

It doesn't feel right. If they're liars, bribetakers and sleazes, then they 
deserve 0.
It isn't worth playing for a crumb.

The assumption is that you and they know that they'll never rate maximum 
points from progressives, because there's no way that they'll improve that 
much. So you're not, by your points increments, going to lead them to honest 
and noncriminality, like leading a mouse with a trail of cheese. So why do 
it? Why compromise your principles for the minimal gains, for the minimal 
distance that you can move that corrupt & sleazy party?

Mike Ossipoff

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