Posted on 02/18/2020 1:02:44 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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Maybe the dogs don’t like it, he said.
I use this parable to illustrate the problem the Left has now:
They have all kinds of ideas about how things should be done, the way people should act, the foods we should eat (or not eat, like Bloomberg and his soda ban) the language we should use (or not use) and the list goes on and on. They have focus groups that analyze aspects of what a candidate should be all about, they are running commercials nauseatingly non-stop (which I believe will eventually have a negative impact) and overall, they think they are the smartest, most organized, most moral, most "woke", most environmentally conscious, most tolerant, most democratic, and most American group of people around.
Their problem is a fundamental one:
Their Ideas Suck.
They exist inside a Leftist echo chamber, and they have no understanding of that fact. They think that if they keep saying over and over again what they believe in, inundate America from all sides of the media with their ideas, spray those ideas at us with the firehoses of media and entertainment, scold us, yell at us, tell us how stupid we are not to see them for the geniuses that they are...well, they think that approach, like that of the marketing executives in the Dog Food Parable, that they can somehow fix their "product" composed of ideas.
They can't.
Their Ideas Suck.
And normal people who don't live in that Leftist Echo Chamber have (I hope) begun to see it, especially with the contrast between the eight years of Obama and his ilk, and less than four years of Trump.
And that reality, the simple fact that they on the Left with their sucky ideas can do nothing about it, that they cannot massage their message (because no matter how much you polish a dog turd, it is still a dog turd) is driving them out of their minds.
And so we get these "books" trying to show us the light, these podcasts of spitting, frothing, Leftists, these ex-DOJ officials and members of a judges union producing media releases talking about what a danger Donald Trump and his ideas are to the very fabric of this country.
And so we are subjected to the spectacle of these foam-mouthed Leftists, hermetically sealed inside their Leftist echo chambers engaging in their increasingly frenetic Leftist circle-jerks telling us how wrong we are and what danger our country is in, while Trump waves his non-existent magic wand, our unemployment rates go down and our wages go up.
It is driving them to both madness and violence, and they are helpless to do anything about it. Because fundamentally...
Their Ideas Suck.
That's exactly right. And that is what happens when you immerse yourself in an ideological echo chamber as the Left has done. You don't have any new ideas or introspection, you simply regurgitate everything in the hope that if you say it loud enough and often enough, people will see things the way you do.
I will say this, though...there are a precious few on the Left who have poked their heads out of that Leftist echo chamber, and after looking around, have become alarmed at what they see, and for good reason.
It never was a democracy to begin with.
I remember this guy. Not fondly.
I.E. Go full California. You never go full California.
Their ideas KILL. And for the tens or hundreds of millions that aren’t killed, the remaining billions are oppressed, just waiting for their deaths. Leftism came right from Satan, all the way back to the Garden of Eden.
What you said in your post seems to have been lost on the Left for nearly a full century.
I think of it often when I see what is going on in Red China today with this pandemic. They had no problem murdering tens to hundreds of millions of their own citizens for purely political reasons...
Yes. Their ideas KILL. Well said.
It’s not lost on the left. They simply don’t care. If they don’t even view the unborn as human beings, they can justify anything to excuse their sick and evil ideas. People are just means to an end.
These are the same folks pushing the “climate change” schtick, which again is about their achieving absolute power over humanity (and, as it should always be said, the issue isn’t the issue - the issue is the revolution).
40 years ago, we were going to freeze to death. A decade later, they changed it to global warming and icebergs melting, etc. Now whatever the weather is, “Climate Change !” Cold in the winter, warm in the summer ? “Climate Change !” Anyone with a brain that listens to a politician talking about wanting to control the weather ought to laugh themselves silly at this lunacy.
No, the scariest part in this is that this “Climate Change” schtick really has to do with the epic genocidal plan to eliminate all but 500 million human beings to bring about their perfect (dystopian) utopia where the remaining humans are like Gods (well, the elites, at least), with the remainder serving their masters. “Nasty” religions like Christianity and Judaism are outlawed. I see that virus thing in China as being a part of what the left will unleash on humanity to eliminate that 95%+ of our population.
Sick and evil aren’t even big enough words to describe their agenda.
Wouldn’t matter what Republican was in the White House. The left would be just as unhinged and hysterical as they are now.
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