Posted on 07/17/2017 5:15:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
A reader strolling down the street in Chicago spotted a recruiting poster for “Activist Jobs,” a bit of an oxymoron. “Activism” by implication is volunteer work undertaken because the goal sought by the acts in question is so important to the “activist.” Goal-oriented acts that are compensated are called “work,” not “activism.” But in the photograph below, the two different categories of endeavor are conflated:
The confusion is deliberate and speaks to a larger strategy of the Left, also based on deception.
The American Left has relied on its mastery of the media – enthusiastically aided and abetted by the 90% of national political journalists today that are progressives of one stripe or another – for its political power for decades. Ever since the 1950s, the left has been deliberately creating events in order to attract media attention that pushes a narrative confirming the justice of their demands. It learned that the new medium of television was perfect for creating artificial dramas that would sway support its way.
The Civil Rights Movement was the first to discover this video dramaturgical approach to politics, when racist politicians in the South (every one of them a Democrat, a fact that has been consigned to Orwell’s Memory Hole) brutalized black demonstrators asking for the right to eat at a lunch counter next to whites, or other perfectly just demands. Television audiences worldwide grasped who the villains and heroes were, and the struggle was won once the narrative took hold among Americans. Inevitably, defenders of the old order were marginalized, looking horrible.
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Leftist organizations have been doing this since at least the late 1970s/early 1980s. They would place ads in college newspapers.
I knew one of the people who got a job doing this. I suspect they provided ACORN-like training; he was thoroughly trained. He also became very annoying to be around!
New York Slimes - All the Fake News We Decide to Print
The secrets of the spontaneous, heartfelt, demonstrations. These are why water cannons and Belgian Shepherds were invented. If I had a convenience store in one of these crapholes I guarantee, I would never be robbed once the word got out about dat dog.
“Activist jobs” would dry up quickly if there was no one to pay for them.
We need to find the money source and cut it off. Yes, Soros. But I fear that there are lots of taxpayer dollars funding this as well. We need to totally (TOTALLY) cut off funding of any organization that uses even $0.01 to pay for “activists”. I will bet there are many. (Planned Parenthood comes to mind.)
And just as easily predictable.
In this corner,... the one, the only, the invincible, George “The Animal” Steele!
And in the other corner, Joe Schmo.
Oh NO!
We need to TAKE those jobs and then fail to perform as expected!!
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