Posted on 10/31/2015 11:27:15 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Leftists have big egos and can’t tolerate what their own Saul Alinsky prescribed: mockery
It’s long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman. And it helps when that boogeyman is real.
When CNBC’s GOP debate moderators couldn’t help but be sanctimonious, supercilious, and self-important Wednesday night, they did more than provoke a response from their intellectual superiors. They did more than further reveal the Establishment Media as a left-wing monolith, further discredit themselves, and further cement in minds that they’re comic-book versions of journalists.
They quite literally revealed a strategy for GOP electoral gains.
Chris Christie has Stockholm Syndrome. He wants to back for more on Nov 10th. :-)
What we display is humor.
They dont know what to do with humor.
I once went to a liberal confab of about maybe a dozen people, that a friend and I decided we were going to sort of infiltrate their tiny operation.
They were ragging about Reagan and all the stupid people who were voting for him.
Then they wanted us to play a game and it was stupid. So, when the moderator asked me for my opinion I said: "You mean this game you are having us play? I feel like I am being forced to participate in a game at a baby shower."
Of course, he did not like that and he stopped the game.
But I said it humorously and everyone laughed, but what it did was take the punch right out of their mockery.
That is essentially what happened at the third Republican debate.
The left can't handle humor.
Ridicule and mockery is all they deserve.
Their pompous claims can’t stand up to reality.
They say the are “ for the people”. Really? So living in expensive neighborhoods on taxpayer funded salaries, you’re a champion of the proletariat?
The hypocrisies are endless. And exploitable. But must be done as ridicule: they will have no defense, and laughter deligitimizes them.
The current Administration and its supporters are so out of touch with our Constitution's own formula for freedom that they view those who advocate a return to the idea of Creator-endowed liberty to be regressive. That's the "progressive" wisdom. Now, let's examine that view.
The "media" strategy which presents "regressive" as "progressive," "backward" as "forward," and "down" as "up." On and on it goes.
It's a strategy which goes deep into the decades-long effort to "fundamentally change" America from its new and revolutionary foundations in Creator-endowed liberty backward into the Old World and later Marxian ideas of control by imaginary human grantors and protectors.
Perhaps an answer to the once-asked question here on FR: "Why does Christianity 'scare' . . . ?" may lie in the degree to which the foundation ideas upon which America's Declaration of Independence were laid and from which the concept of Creator-endowed individual liberty and the Source from which that liberty is derived have been removed from "the American mind" (Jefferson).
Perhaps the so-called "progressive" enemies of freedom understand better than those who fancy themselves as "conservatives" that in order to reverse the Founders' ideas of "People over government," and institute "government over People," they must first marginalize and destroy the ideas from which liberty is derived.
The writings of America's Founders are replete with references which rebuke would-be tyrants and cite a Higher Source for life, liberty and rights. Early histories confirm those facts.
As so-called "progressives" have led a movement in forsaking the Founders' "reliance on Divine Providence," and belief that individuals are "endowed by their Creator," they also have forsaken the principles underlying America's Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and are systematically dismantling the greatest protections for liberty ever established for a people.
"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).
The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.
We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
So, the still-revolutionary idea stated by both Ryan and Romney in the 2012 campaign that the Source of our rights is the Creator became fodder for this President's disdain, when he declared that the ideas those two candidates were espousing were "reruns" from the 20th Century and better suited for "black and white" television. (Actually, Mr. President, those ideas were from a time much earlier than that.)
As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
All of which reinforces our conviction that the ideas of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are as revolutionary and objectionable to tyrants as they were in 1776 and 1787!
Terrific article. Well worth going to the site to get the full read.
Yeah, but when they're out of power, they can play the "they're making fun of the woman" or "they're making fun of the black guy" card.
When they're in power - and pissing people off - that strategy don't work so good.
Reagan used humor to a great effect. We need to do the same.
DENVER - Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo announced this week that he is leaving the Republican Party and gave the reasons in an op-ed published by Breitbart.com Friday.
Tancredo wrote:
Sadly, it has become obvious that the Republican establishment simply has no intention of ever fulfilling promises made in platforms and campaign speeches. To their mind, there are elections, and then there is “governing,†and governing to them means not messing with a gargantuan government on autopilot.
The Republican establishment does not want to control spending.
It does not want to secure the borders or enforce immigration laws.
It does not care about American sovereignty.
It has no interest in ending the unaccountable and corrupt culture that has become a hallmark of official Washington.
By insulting the grassroots, the GOP leadership has set upon a suicide mission. The problem is that failed leadership is allowing Obama to destroy the Constitution and take the whole country down the drain. Well, count me out.
The Boehner budget deal is the last straw, and enough is enough. I cannot any longer defend this transparently dishonest charade called the Republican Party.
What I will do instead is join the largest political group in the nation, unaffiliated Independents. In Colorado, they outnumber both “major†political parties.
The next day I will begin working my tail off for the next twelve months to organize Independents to help elect Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as President of the United States. Cruz is the only candidate who both understands the left’s agenda and has demonstrated the courage to fight for our liberties, our sovereignty, and the survival of constitutional government.
The rest of Tancredo’s comments are HERE.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/10/former-congressman-tancredo-why-i-am-leaving-the-republican-party.html#more
Oh, I agree. But Reagan was a very, very unusual guy.
Also, once the MSM made Contra-gate stick, the humor days were over. One might even argue that the funny business stopped after the Marine Corps barracks bombing.
I guess one of the things that helps us is that when Democrats are running things, the fact that they're a joke is no longer funny.
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