Posted on 10/24/2010 5:19:33 AM PDT by libstripper
BERKELEY, Calif.—On the night before we are scheduled to address this conference, the Tea Party experts are treated to a meal at the Faculty Club. It sounds fancy, and it is, with the feel and décor of a Sundance ski lodge. Over craft beers, wine, and cheese, we discuss that favorite topic of liberal academics: What the hell happened to Barack Obama? Why does the right have all the energy that he and the left used to own?
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“Tea Party experts”...these morons treat us like they’re Jane Goodall and we’re the apes. We’re not fellow citizens to them, we’re some sort of anthropological experiment.
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The Left is nothing if it’s not potty-mouthed. How can these elitists command any respect when they lace their language with vulgarity?
Maybe it impresses people who don’t have real jobs or who don’t care about children, but it doesn’t impress me.
It makes me think that they need to have their mouths washed out with Fells Naphtha.
It's simple. Three things happened:
(1) ~ in the last 2 elections the Democrats managed to bump off a good number of our Republican "problem children" who'd been engaging in too many "reach arounds"
(2) ~ Compound that with normal retirement levels
(3) ~ PLUS beating the cr*p out of many of the remaining "problem children" in primaries this year,
~ and there you have it ~ a Republican party with few "problem children" who are the type get out there and alienate Republican voters with promises of "Democrat Lite" or more "reach arounds".
We also got rid of all the known gay Republican office holders or individuals in party management ~ and that seems to have been reflective of a problem the public has, to wit ~ they look past the fact that 1/3 to 1/2 the Democrat activists are gay, but if a gay person shows up in Republican politics they recoil in terror. So, sorry gay people, the public says we can't win elections with you around in our party so if you have a complaint, take it up with them ~ not us!
Example: Forget what the Tea Partiers SAY they're about. I am a Marxist academic, and I see they are angry white property owners threatened by the rise of a black socialist in a capitalistic society. Thus, the Tea partiers are obviously a racist cabal rising up to stop progress and return us to a slave state.
(I'm sure you think I'm joking, but I ain't!)
“One of the most famous things Saul Alinsky did was—when O’Hare Airport wasn’t hiring African-Americans—he held the ‘shit-in,’ “ said Perlstein. “They waited until the big planes were getting in then monopolized the toilets. I can’t see Barack Obama doing that.”
Obama has been taking a dump on America since he “became” a “citizen”. Next Tuesday is payback day to all these A$$ Holes, and I’m backed up enough for years of flushing.
I participated in a “get out the vote” effort yesterday. The one thing I noticed was, that it’s the left out there who are rude, arrogant and angry! Somehow I thought this only happened on TV and in the cities, not small town Warren County, NJ.
The rest for the most part were either polite or in a friggin coma! Blank stare, in dire need of coffee. The coherent ones are also chomping at the bit to vote and are very concerned with the direction of this country.
if you ever listened to randi rhodes for 5 minutes that is exactly the conclusion you would come away with. We are not fellow citizens, were apes.
But on wed after the elections, she will be screeching
Their world view is entirely different than conservatives. They believe that socialism works. They do not believe that capitalism works. They have to come up with a bunch of conspiracy theories to explain why the world does not agree with their world view.
It is very hard to obtain solutions that work from premises that are false.
“A Macro-Micro Model of Participation in Political Action: The Tea Party and Cognitive Biases in Information Consumption and Processing.”
Ooooooh! I wanna go to that one!!
Ah, the classic reaction of Leftists when their power is threatened; kill the opposition.
From the article;
“One of the most famous things Saul Alinsky did was—when O’Hare Airport wasn’t hiring African-Americans—he held the ‘shit-in,’ “ said Perlstein. “They waited until the big planes were getting in then monopolized the toilets. I can’t see Barack Obama doing that.”
Also from the article;
“The feeling thermometer scale goes from 0 to 100,” says Abramowitz, pointing to a chart with a collapsing line. “Over time, you can see that Democratic presidential candidates getting less and less. By the last time period, you can see that the average rating is around 27 degrees. That’s downright freezing.”
WTF???
Conditions haven't changed all that much so I doubt people then noticed any deviation from normal.
It's never surprising when you find "60's radicals" who can't really recall where they were "way back then" particularly if they went to Woodstock and bought some of the LSD laced MJ "sticks". Some of those people will never get that out of their systems.
thanks for your service -regarding the vote.
“WTF???”
Obviously, you’re not an academic!
And another from the article. And it’s amazing!
“I wonder if we’re likely to see a Timothy McVeigh situation,” says Nicholas Robert, an attendee originally from Australia, who basically wonders if any Tea Partiers can be arrested. “It seems to be that we’re being very polite. I wonder if there are any legal mechanisms—one that comes to mind are the provisions used to crush the Wobblies.”
“You’re not allowed to just say no to everything the president wants,”
Less democracy, aka: citizen participation
No dissent allowed.
Use of police coercion.
Of course, it’s not fascist when the left does it.
They have a total blindness to individual liberty. They rant about using laws to create handouts and institutions that they seem to think cater to personal self-interest all the while being incapable of understanding anyone who would turn down dependency in favor of self-reliance.
No wonder they are losing. They do not understand basic human drives and when confronted by them, they deny that they can exist.
So, can we assume that the progressives are driven only by self-interest, have a fear of democracy and can be controlled by threats of police coercion? Or do they see themselves above all that while assuming that the experimental subjects will respond positively to such actions?
Total cognitive dissonance is truly a mental disorder.
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