Posted on 01/13/2014 6:56:47 AM PST by mandaladon
For Dr. Timothy Daughtry, a clinical psychologist who has co-authored a book for mainstream Americans, too many citizens think they have done their civic duty if they show up to vote and return to their normal lives.
To Daughtry, they are “like summer tourists in politics,” whereas the progressives are like the “locals.”
“We’ve got to get active now or we are going to lose this republic,” Daughtry says. The danger is, he says, that “our country is being taken away from us right under our very noses.”
He believes that a historic debate is being played out about whether Americans are citizens or subjects of their government.
Conservatives are on defense too much to succeed, he thinks, but also believes that help is on the way as citizens are waking up to the problems caused by both political parties.
“We have to make the left start defending socialism instead of us defending liberty,” Daughtry said.
Mainstream America started waking up when Republicans and Democrats in Washington embracing bailouts, which he says “fundamentally struck Americans as wrong.”
Then, the widespread unpopularity of Obamacare became surprisingly irrelevant to a government that “rammed it through anyway.” Educational textbooks depicting American history through a distorted lens of progressive ideology that glorifies redistribution is another “red flag” waking up parents, Daughtry believes.
Losing cultural institutions to the left, like the media, education and entertainment, is far more significant, says Daughtry, than the harm done by the U.S. government. Daughtry also discusses how to respond to being called an extremist or a racist in this two-part interview.
He thinks conservatives should not accept the left’s premises, since the left has done incalculable damage to the black community with their policies and programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Why go through the trouble.....when we have keyboards at our disposal?
We should not dismiss the potency of the internet, social media, and the vast reach of the computer----these are huge factors in framing public opinion.
Newspapers have clearly taken a back seat as a means of influencing p/o.
Some enterpreneurs are now using youtube for current events talk shows....completely bypassing broadcast and cable TV.
Conservatives might explore that, as well.
Well, he’s clearly right. Conservatives must replace the current defensive strategy with a much more offensive strategy. It’s about controlling the initiative.
It’s hard to make the left “defend socialism” when 99% of them won’t admit that that’s the ideology that they advocate.
I worked on that for a few months about decade ago, producing a series of short tracts on numerous topics. I couldn't get readers to review it.
I spar with liberals a LOT on the internet. This line especially rings true: “He thinks conservatives should not accept the left’s premises...”
My unashamed attitude about homosexuality on those liberal sites is very 1950’s, but in the “polite” way. It means I don’t call them queers or fags. But I also don’t call them “gay”. And when they say I’m behind the times, my response is always along the lines of, “Really? Please tell me what has changed that should change my viewpoint.” There are few remotely legitimate arguments they can make, and then I shoot those down easily. The fact that I have known a lot of homosexuals in my day, and none of them really live on the same plane of joy or happiness that the rest of us can aspire to. This is something I KNOW from experience and these folks can’t shout me down.
Ultimately they start calling me names, but it drives them nuts that my attitude is shouted from the rooftops on the internet and, being products of their own progressive circle jerks, they don’t know how to handle it and are baffled that folks like me and the Duck Dynasty patriarch exist.
But they’re starting to figure out that they are not really in the majority and what little strength they have is in the folks in the middle that really don’t think about it much. We’re trying to get them to think about it.
That’s true. Another problem is that seniors are the most reliable group when it comes to showing up on election day and virtually every senior is now on the dole, dependent on government for their health care and income.
The left is a formidable political opponent because their ideology inherently carries no moral restraints on what they will do to attain power.
I started saying, in the mid-1990’s, that I felt like a Jew in early 30’s Germany. It was that I felt completely out of step with the direction the world was going, and especially the US. When Bush was elected, I said we just put off the inevitable for another four years. But then, he (and the republican majority) is what pushed me out of the R party.
I have spent many years feeling like a Jew in “mid-30’s Germany” but it is now the late 30’s. And I think the next two years will be VERY bad, and progressively so.
However, there is another meaning to my Jew/Germany analogy. Sure, September 1st, 1939 is coming, but so is May 7th, 1945. Though I think this time it will be via the second coming of the Lord. Yes, I think it will get that bad.
I have a sense of imminence as well...
If we bought the MSM out we could give balance to knee jerk liberals who have been brain-washed into thinking the 'internet' is only rumors.
Our folks can afford it.
Most democrats have never heard a conservative idea that wasn't filtered through liberal hate...
Regarding stuff going on in the US the last 20 years, I am very mindful of Revelation 18:4.
It’s why I moved from Seattle to rural KY.
LOL - we're talking about King Obama, right? Good one Liz.
I picked up some land a couple of years ago -
struggling to have enough time to get it “up and running” though.
It does come down to a failure of the Republicans to get their message heard. That is party because they do not have a cohesive message any more.
Most have not read the following which is “standing on the shoulders of giants”. But reading this requires a “thinking cap” which offends some people here when I say that:
http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/ten-conservative-principles/
those are all publically traded companies, nothing could prevent someone with enough money from buying the majority of the shares.
That is a very important point. Much has been written about the massive database and targeting operation done by the Obama campaign. In large part what they did is identify specific messages that would win over a voter and then direct those messages to that voter. Many of the messages I saw would never have stood up to widespread public dissemination, but were effective when sent to gullible voters likely to believe them.
For example, people identified as supporters of abortion rights got messages saying things like "Republican candidate so and so fought against a requirement that hospital X provide abortion services...instead a woman would be left to die in the emergency room.."
Of course the truth was that the candidate had opposed a requirement that a hospital without an emergency room, which didn't offer any emergency services, should have to offer training on emergency abortions to its staff, none of whom were remotely qualified for that kind of medical care anyway. The campaign message could never have been made publicly, or broadcast, because it would have been immediately shown to be false. But when sent in an email or letter to a small group of voters the message was not corrected - how would the Republican candidate even know who got the letter?
These highly targeted letters often cited as sources obscure blogs as if they were reliable publications. In one case even the posters on the blog rejected the article, but Obama's allies ran with it anyway.
These highly targeted, and often misleading messages are very effective in generating high turn out of particular groups of people. They do however undermine democracy, but conservatives need to know about the technique, and either neutralize it or use similar, but more ethical techniques.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.
…The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
…the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
…the fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
…the sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
…the seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
…the eighth rule: Keep the pressure on.
…the ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
…The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
…The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
…The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
You’re doing what a lot of us should be doing...keep up the good work.
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