Hey, this is awesome! I bet I personally adhere to a have-cake+eat-cake position on some political issue. Let me think... Yeah, I've got it: Copyright reform.

What would be really useful in winning converts would be to be a persecuted underdog who was also very powerful and certain to win out.

Exactly. We copyright reformists are a persecuted underdog but also ultimately unstoppable and with the tide of history at our back.

They believe in a silent majority. Liberals control all sorts of nefarious institutions that are currently exercising a stranglehold on power and hiding the truth, but most Americans, once you pull the wool off their eyes, are conservatives at heart.

This fits me so well! I believe in a silent majority too. Copyright maximalists control all sorts of nefarious institutions that are currently exercising a stranglehold on power but most people don't at heart believe in the copyright regime. They sure don't act like they do.

I had been wondering why I can get so emotional about this political issue while I'm generally able to calmly discuss the merits and dismerits of any political idea or system. I suppose this "unstoppable underdog" thing has a strong psychological appeal.