Posted by
drpete on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:11:06 AM
Half of all Americans are below-average in intelligence. Duh. Half of all Americans are below average in income. Duh. Half of all Americans are above average in ignorance. Duh. These are just statistical truisms. America's "educational" systems -- pre-k, k-12, colleges and universities -- overwhelmingly indoctrinate rather than educate, and that indoctrination is left-leaning. America's "news" media -- newspapers, news magazines, network television, radio news -- are overwhelmingly biased and editorial, and left-leaning. Garbage in, garbage out. Much of America is brainwashed.
Liberal Democrats -- whether in schools, on tv, at the coffee shop, or politicians on the stump -- easlily connect with most Americans with demagoguery, soundbites, victimology, focus-group-pretested phraseology, and identification with the underdog. Heck, almost everyone sees himself or herself in one way or another as an underdog or even a victim.
Conservatives -- that's a subset of Republicans -- counter the liberal spin with data, facts, history and science, all packaged in a logical treatise. I harken back to my early adulthood. The line was, "In your heart, you know he's right." They were speaking of presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater. I remember thinking that opponent, Lyndon Johnson, must be whispering, "Okay, Barry you're right, but I'll be president." As Tom DeLay said, Demagoguery beats data."
Political campaigns are a series of soundbites, all 30 seconds or less, most less than 10 seconds. Whether it's top-of-the-hour five-minute radio news or an insert in a piece on the nightly news on tv or part of a paragraph in a newspaper or during a televised debate, it's all quick hits. In a debate the Dem says, " . . . looking out for the little guy . . . tax cuts for the rich . . . corporate greed . . . loopholes . . . racism . . . women make just 70 cents . . . " all in under 30 seconds, and leave the Republican without a snowball's chance in hades of anything but the first half of a logical treatise on
one of the allegations. Incidentally, during that impotent response the (liberal-friendly) camera will pan to the Democrat, who is either smiling or smirking or shaking his head with horizontal motion.
The game is rigged. The odds are stacked. Conservatives care about truth, know that seeing is believing. Liberals know that truth doesn't matter, only what the audience perceives as truth, what they can be persuaded is truth, and that believing is seeing. (One might argue -- and have a point -- that conservatives should refuse to play the rigged game, maybe eschewing soundbite journalism for paid 30-minute infomercials wherein they lay out logical and organized fact- and history-based arguments in favor of conservatism and against liberalism, fascism and socialism.) Any attempt on my part to help conservatives in this game is seriously hampered by my being a conservative. And I'm an ideologue, not a politician.
Nonetheless, below is my attempt at some soundbites for conservatives in 2010. Please comment on them, and suggest others.
Government – specifically Democrats
– destroyed the black family. Black men will
have to fix that, but we Republicans promise to get government programs out of
their way. We want black men to once
again be fathers rather than mere sperm donors.
We want black children to learn what a man should be from their father,
a role-model in the home.
Government – both Republicans
and Democrats – have bankrupted your children and your grandchildren, even
before they’re born. The current leftist-Democrat congress and administration have so crippled government revenues while spending beyond comprehension that America is already on the edge of a cliff. We Republicans
promise to fix that. It will not
be easy and not be quick. We’ll
stop doing government and start undoing government. At first, most won’t like it. You’ll see what’s lost, but not what’s
gained. Your children will. You’re grandchildren will. And they’ll thank you for it.
Government for many decades
has served as a ceiling. It limits energy
production. It limits business
potential. It stifles creativity and
invention. It enslaves people on welfare
and keeps them from being all that they can become. It makes operating a business so difficult that
jobs by the millions are taken overseas.
We’ll return government to its rightful role, the floor, one that’s
level and allows all who wish to succeed.
If you want government to
give things to you, you should vote for Democrats. They’ll steal it from other folks for
you. If you want government to get out
of your way, to quit stealing what’s yours, to allow you to grow and thrive,
vote for us, the Republicans. Government
has no property or assets that it hasn’t taken from the American people, and it
would have been better in the people’s hands than in politicians’ hands.
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You know what “Affirmative
Action” means? Half the time it means that
a black person gets admitted to a college where they’ll fail or promoted to a
job where they’ll fail. The other half
of the time it means that a black person gets a job or into a college for which
they’re eminently qualified, and all the white folks just know for sure that it
was “Affirmative Action” that got them there.
“Affirmative Action” is what liberal-Democrat whites do to help blacks
because those Democrats just
know that black people are incapable of succeeding
without their help. How arrogant. How condescending.
Part of why liberal Democrats
get away with this arrogance and condescension toward, and at the expense of,
blacks is that they have Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons as cover. Why do Jackson and Sharpton do it? Follow the money. It’s called shakedowns.
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Housing and Urban Development
– HUD – is very good at what it does. It
develops slums, then leaves it to gangs to run them. It’s how they get all the poor black people
in one place so that they have no idea that life could be different and
better. It’s how government keeps poor black
people dependent on government forever and voting for Democrats.
Of course, then there’s Jimmy
Carter and Democrats in congress with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to
help blacks get to own their own homes.
Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Maxine Waters, The Congressional Black
Caucus, along with Obama’s ACORN and SEIU and HUD intimidate and force banks to offer subprime variable-rate
mortgage loans to people who have zero chance of actually repaying. That worked out well for the little guy,
right?
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Hey, I’ve got a job for
you. It pays $7.50 an hour and your
expenses for travel and uniforms, etc. will be $8.50 an hour. You want it?
That’s exactly what Democrats have just done to America’s doctors. Older docs will retire early. Some younger ones will move offshore. Some will leave medicine. Your medical care will be free . . . and
unavailable. That hope and change working
for you?
Speaking of jobs, have you
ever gotten one from a
poor person?
People who earn lots of money invest lots of it, and that
generates jobs, jobs for you and for me.
So, how good an idea is it that Democrats want to increase and increase
taxes on the rich? Every time they do,
it costs jobs. If you’re smart, you won’t
scorn a rich guy. You’ll walk up and
thank him.
Want your government to
increase taxes on businesses, you know, those evil corporations? Where do you think those businesses get the
money to pay those taxes? No, they can’t
print it. Either they get it from
customers or they go out of business.
When you say you want business to pay more taxes, what you’re calling
for is higher prices.
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If you or I is forced to work for someone against our will, that's called "slavery", and it was outlawed in 1870 -- admittedly, about 80 years late -- by the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution. Are you for slavery? If I come to your house, brandish a gun, and demand money to pay for my doctor bill, that's a crime. If I go to my doctor's office, brandish a gun, and demand free medical treatment, that's a crime. In either case, I'll likely do jail time. If I get the government to go to your house and take your money or go to my doctor's office and demand that he give me free care, we then think that's an okay idea? What it is is slavery. Are you for slavery?
If you think that medical care is a right, then you approve of slavery. You believe that someone should be forced to work for you against their will, that you have a right to what someone else has worked for and earned. Do you believe in slavery . . . just as long as someone else is the slave?
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Most Americans were mad as heck at Bernie Madoff because he bilked lots of people out of billions of dollars with his Ponzi scheme. They cheered when he was convicted and sentenced to many decades in prison. Madoff was a piker -- a small-time pickpocket -- compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to all of his presidential successors, to all of the congresses since the 1930s. Social Security was, and continues to be, a Ponzi scheme. It was known from the get-go that it would crash and burn, and it's been understood by each succeeding president and each succeeding congress that it would crash and burn, but
not before the next election.
Social Security bankruptcy is imminent. Hold up one hand. Yes, in fewer than that number of years. Are you counting on Social Security? Really? We Republicans won't kick the can down the road. If elected, we'll fix Social Security in our first year. Every American will benefit . . . except for Social Security bureaucrats.
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Addendum: December 4
Your unalienable -- from the Creator -- right to liberty means, among other things, that you may attempt to charge whatever price you want for your stuff. Your time, your labor, your house or car, your chain saw, your hotel room, your gasoline; whatever is owned by you. My like right to liberty means that I can agree to pay your price or not, my choice. If what you're offering is worth more to me than the money I have to give up, we'll have a deal. Have you ever insisted on selling something for
less than someone offered? Heck, my parish didn't have our church built by the highest bidder, just so that the workers could be paid more.
So what's this "price gouging" mantra that Democrats haul out every time there's a hurricane or heavy snow storm or whatever? If there'd been some "price gouging" going on in Bethlehem, Jesus would have been born in an inn rather than a manger.
So, there's a hurricane and everyone's fleeing the coast to get a few hours inland. Motel keepers immediately increase their room rates by 50 or 100%. If they didn't a family of six would get there before you and book three rooms, one for mom and dad, one for the three kids, and one for aunt whatshername. With the jacked-up price, though, they decide to all pile in one room, get a rollaway and have the kids sleeping on the floor. The result? When you arrive later, there's a room available, albeit sorta expensive.
I remember having to drive way east in North Carolina from Tennessee a few years back and when gas prices were way high, and the "price gouging" chatter was constant on the radio. Came upon an exit with two gas stations, one with a price of $2.99 on its sign and another next door advertising $3.49. I was shocked when I saw cars lined up at the $3.49 pumps and nobody at the $2.99. We drove smartly over to the $2.99s. There were bags over all the pump handles, and signs saying "out of gas".
Price is the explanation of the relationship between supply and demand. It's stupid to shoot the messenger. The "price gouging" mantra is typical liberal-Democrat phoney-baloney crisis manufacturing so they can come to the aid of the "little guy", the victim. It's garbage.
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The liberal-Democrat so-called "healthcare plan" targets the elderly with rationing of expensive procedures and massive cuts to Medicare. Know why? Leftist-fascist-socialist- and communist regimes
always do that. Lenin and Stalin did that. Hitler and Mussolini did that. Mao did that. It is the old folks who
remember, remember how it once was and how it's supposed to be. In America each of us has an unalienable right to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness, regardless of our age. We Republicans
know that, will never forget that, and will respect you, your parents and your grandparents 'til death do us part.
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Addendum December 10
Tax cuts for the rich. Bush's tax cuts for the rich. Terrible? Unfair? How come the poor can't get a tax cut? You've heard this talk, right? So what's wrong with it?
First, Bush's tax cuts? All tax bills must start in the House of Representatives, indeed in the Ways & Means Committee. If they get through the House, the Senate needs to join in. After that the President gets to either sign it or veto it. Can't change it.
Second, no congress and no president can raise taxes or cut taxes. All they can do is changes the rates, the percentages. You know, like someone earning $100,000 pays at a 15% rate, someone at $50,000 at a 10%, and so on.
Congress in both 2002 and 2004 lowered tax rates across every tax bracket, including the highest. What happened? The "rich" immediately began paying a greater percentage of total income taxes and more actual dollars in taxes. The president and the congress knew that would happen.
If you have to drive 100 miles each way to work, you might only work 7 hours, since you have to spend 3 hours round-trip getting there and back. If your employer moved work to 5 miles from your home, do you think you might work more hours? When you make someone's time and effort more profitable, they spend more time and effort . . . and even pay more taxes.
Pretty funny, eh? Good. It's called the "Laffer Curve". Oh, forgot. Tax cuts for the poor? The bottom 40% of earners pay zero in income taxes.