We fight fair and we don’t have mainstream media. FR is a lovely place where I receive hope and feel I am not alone, but I was so disillusioned after this last election here. We didn’t have any effect.
It is soooo frustrating to have that media out there telling all the low infos that black is white, up is down, bad is good.
The only reason any low infos are growing wiser about Obama these days is OBAMA HIMSELF OVERREACHING. We haven’t done much to inform and conquer. He has made a bunch of middle class people look like utter fools. Some (black and white and the rest) are starting to wonder if he ever really deserved his halo.
But all these bright FReepers who see what is happening, who know what is going on, still have perilous little effect on the country. How to be more active? What good does it do, when the media have told everyone that Tea Party people are stupid racists and then they frame everything according to the liberal fake world view? It’s like we need someone loud yet gentle who doesn’t care about his popularity (or infamy) to get onto media and just freaking talk PAST the reporter questions directly to the American people and let them know what is REALLY going on.
Rush Limbaugh has done a lot for this country. And my special needs kid who hates to read anything of substance and fought me to not have Rush Revere read to him, LOVED IT. But if Rush could do just one more thing for this great country, he should literally GO LIVE onto Greta and other shows, and do two minute explanations of current truths to at least the Fox News audience. Video would be key because it could be shown on other shows, and even if they cut it to ribbons, the whole thing could be found on YouTube. Rush plus YouTube just might get to low info voters. That is where teens and twenties spend a lot of their time.
I don’t know of another ambassador who is not afraid to be trashed (he has decades of experience with it), who can explain everything succinctly and with humor, and doesn’t get all emotional/angry and squeaky like his friend mark Levin. I wish he would, or at least that someone else would dare. Sadly Sarah Palin cannot get across to low infos. How many people has she personally converted to conservatism?
Rush converted me, and maybe a lot of other true blues here too. Finally I got it.
Yaelle,
We will NEVER reach anyone with conservatism until we live it. All my ranting on this and many other threads comes down to that. When we collectively claim conservative principles/values as the way to go, then turn around in the same breath and compromise those beliefs/principles, the average joe sees us as fools.
So until we rid ourselves of the enemy within our ranks, here we are.c It’s that simple.
That and get over the idea that we can do it all pain free. We took decades to get to the point where ‘conservatives’ can call voting in a Pubbie ‘no matter what” and be taken seriously. It will not be easy to turn it around. And it will not come without a political price.
Rush might could have stopped Romney and McPain had he “endorsed”, but the FCC rules may not permit him to do so.
It’s like we need someone loud yet gentle who doesn’t care about his popularity (or infamy) to get onto media and just freaking talk PAST the reporter questions directly to the American people and let them know what is REALLY going on.
I'm not much of a YouTube surfer, but I got on there and did some surfing the other night out of sheer boredom, and I was amazed at all of the ordinary citizens who are posting videos and speaking their minds about the current U.S. situation.
Name a subject that we talk about here, and I can guarantee you there are dozens of videos with people expressing views like ours, there on that site.
Just finding that all this explosive communication is happening there, gave me a bit of comfort. I know that the young low infos who don't listen to Rush, and who would never even think to look for a place like FR, are absorbing the same logic and reasoning from that channel.
If we really want to get through to the low infos, that's the place to do it. It's where their eyeballs are.