I was just talking to a registered Dem family. Their comment: The Democrats are destroying the middle class. This is in Cook County aka Obamacountry.
Romney lost the middle class last time out. We have to win them by not frightening them. They need opportunity, but they want stability. They’re on the margins and don’t like falling behind.
Opportunity knocks and we can capture a generation.
If the GOPe would stop trying to be Democrat-Lite, then maybe they would win more elections.
If Obama did what happened in Venezuela and started nationalizing industry and seizing businesses and giving the stuff away, his popularity would skyrocket among the sheeple.
> I was just talking to a registered Dem family. Their comment: The Democrats are destroying the middle class. This is in Cook County aka Obamacountry.
Prior to 5 years ago Democrats weren’t anywhere to the degree of villains they are today. I think what happened is a parasite named socialism targeted the party with the minorities who needed a savior, consumed the host, took over it, then morphed into the monstrosity it is today. Its not the Democratic Party I grew up around.
>>>Romney lost the middle class last time out. We have to win them by not frightening them.<<<
Well, you see the target clearly enough, but you’re making a lot of assumptions about that “frightening” stuff.
The middle class is manipulated daily by the unceasing leftist propaganda from the media, including Hollywood, much of the Internet, advertising, television, newspapers, magazines, cable, the whole ball of wax. Combine that with the leftist propaganda from academia, as well as those who use the machinery of the state for propagandistic purposes, and you have the perfect storm for creating fear by people who are experts in manipulating emotions, organizing political movements, and rationalizing any behavior that creates a bigger government and greater control over the population.
What I’m saying is that the messages which frighten people aren’t coming from the conservatives. Those frightening messages are at the core of leftist politics. Lenin called it “agitation propaganda,” which are messages and ideas promoted simply to make people angry or annoyed, at which point the state steps in to make things better. Sandra Fluke’s request for free birth control, and the unending lies about Republicans taking away contraceptives, are good examples of that. The American model is called “community organizing.” Or as Rahm Emmanuel once said, you shouldn’t let a crisis go to waste.
I would agree with this article. I teach high school, and, yes, the opinions of the kids in my classroom as unformed and uninformed, but most of them find Obama a joke and liberals to be old hypocrite hippies. They hear from grandparents (and me) about life when people were living in a liberty-based society, and they want it in their own lives. Certainly the modern version of liberty looks far different than it did for us in 1965 - for starters, they’re seeing a vision of liberty as seen through the debris of decades of leftist rule. You might be pleased to know that a fairly substantial group of those kids are devoted Christians, and they’re not being subtle or shy about their faith.
I would think that someone alive in 1961 would have little understanding of the culture of 1971. The hubris of the Gramscii-besotted cultural elite is ripe for a swift kick in the ass. Of course, being a teacher, I’m right in that line of fire, but it would be worth it to have a ringside seat.