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Posted on 01/17/2013 4:48:43 AM PST by expat1000
The binder issue is instructive. It is NOT a real issue yet dems had no trouble playing with it.
Republicans are afraid to do this even with real issues.
Great read, since I have been a conservative in the failing liberal tarpits of Madison Wisconsin my whole life, everything you’ve written rings true.
“Liberalism is not so much about knowing, as it is about not knowing. It is about the knowingness of pretending to know more than you do. It is about the empty gesture, the loud protest and the snide remark.”
This is so spot on. I’m involved in a discussion about gun control with some Liberals right now. The rank ignorance of basic facts about hardware and law and efficacy is breathtaking, but that doesn’t stop or even slow grand pronouncements about What Should Be Done!
>>This is so spot on. I’m involved in a discussion about gun control with some Liberals right now. The rank ignorance of basic facts about hardware and law and efficacy is breathtaking, but that doesn’t stop or even slow grand pronouncements about What Should Be Done!
Reminds me of the jackass journalist Project Veritas caught on video saying that instead of going after guns the guvmint should force magazines to have a capacity of 1 round!!! It’s not possible to have an intelligent conversation with these people...
You nailed it!!!! The game is narratives, and the GOP establishment loses every single narrative war. The GOPe won’t fight theirs, and the GOPe won’t run with our own potential narratives.
We won’t do for the truth, what the other side will do for a lie....which is to repeat repeat repeat
Greenfield pens masterpiece and after masterpiece AGAIN!
I just gets better and better!
Thanks for the ping!
Hypocrisy is the outcome, but in a totalitarian system it's also the point.
Wish there was some way to get this message to most Unitarians, Tom Brokaw, ABC News, MSNBC, and the 'Meet the Press lite' guy....
A little long, but a good read. The theme is that the end justify the means. But what is the end? I can’t discern anything aside from “I want free stuff” and “Kill the rich.” I guess the French Revolution wasn’t based on much else, so there is precedent for pointless revolutions.
But the Liberals are surely helped by their ownership of the microphone.
I often wonder if Conservatives aren’t out there making great arguments. I imagine that if it sounds good and compelling, the “journalist” just shuts off the camera and re-uses the tape. It’s only if it’s “binders” that it makes the evening news.
Just power, apparently. That smooth, cool feeling of being one of the important people.
For some people this precludes intelligent thought, or wholeness. ‘Wholeness’ not being a great word but all I can think of for the moment.
Because it’s early and I have to go feed the redbone hounds and stir the cornmeal mush and put in my false teeth and load the Mossberg.
thanks O exhalted Sultan!
Not money, but power. Soros, Pelosi, Reid, now Obama, they all have more than enough money for several lifetimes.
But power, there's no concept of enough with these people.
Yes, you’re right - it rings true.
That said, how do we overcome the totalitarian aspects of liberalism? Identifying is important - and thank God for Greenfield on that score - but where to from here? How much worse will it get? Will white liberal elites destroy the country to maintain their own power? How do we stand up to them?
Daniel Greenfield needs to write a book - this battle’s going to go on for years... Our best hope is to be armed with strong ideas.
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Sure they do - the desire for power, absolute power, the ability to rule by imperial decree, the ability to command "Off with their heads" and have it carried out.
The liberals are indeed helped by the ownership of microphones, but our establishment blows the opportunities they have. Paul Ryan agrees that Obama “inherited” a mess from Bush in a national debate. Romney agrees that “Obama is a nice guy” as a major theme of his campaign. Boehner agrees “the election is over” and that “Obama Care is the law of the land” post election. This has nothing to do with who owns the mics.
It has everything to do with an establishment that is prissy and out of touch with reality. Liberals NEVER stop campaigning, NEVER think an election is over, and NEVER admit anything is the law of the land they don’t like. Damn a microphone, I am talking reality.
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