Well Norm, you know that I fought in the trenches with you last year. We lost the battle early on, and could only wonder what would become of our movement after the Great RINO Hope lost the election.
Predictably, our side became demoralized and scattered. The bitterness and infighting that followed was (in my mind) destructive and unnecessary. After thirteen months there are still residual pockets of it remaining. We’ve slowly begun to cohere, but we’re still not the unified front we need to be.
Make no mistake. Our lack of cohesion is being engineered. It’s to be expected. We’re in a war for the future of the country, and the other side will employ every underhanded tactic imaginable to keep us at each others throats.
It’s good to see you. Sad to see that it’s only your parting shot to this community. You’ll be missed, buddy.
Windy
Hi Windy,
I’ll finish fighting out this thread but that’ll be it.
You are dead right that it’s engineered. And it’s obvious. Which makes it so freaking senseless that the GOP’bots are running wild pushing the same tired and proven to fail crap that got us to where we are today.
Folks, the Bots are all around you. Here and across the right wing net. WHY don’t you fight them directly? You can’t get through to Bhoner and tell him to pound salt, but you CAN tell all his little helpers here to shove their “we gotta keep voting GOP no matter what” bullshit.
How many slaps in the face do people need? Thank God himself that more many more people every day are leaving the GOP and going indy. Until we do coalesce OUTSIDE the mechanization of the GOP, we are well and truly F’d.
What? Where is Norm going? I missed something, didn’t I?
Norm?
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.