Posted on 08/08/2010 6:57:44 AM PDT by La Lydia
CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE, VA. -- The crowds that have been showing up for Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello's town halls have been smaller and more polite than the angry throngs he saw during last August's raucous congressional recess. Catcalls about socialism and death panels have given way to substantive and pointed questions -- about the intricacies of the new health-care law and financial regulations, finding alternative energy sources...Most of all, people want to talk about the economy.
Virginia's largely rural 5th Congressional District, first represented in Congress by James Madison, is a good place to see what Democrats across the country are up against...
Gale-force outrage -- both the real kind and the kind manufactured for television -- has faded this August. There is still the occasional outburst: On Saturday, the Lynchburg Tea Party Patriots hastily called a rally outside a Perriello town hall in Fork Union to demand that he vote against $26 billion in aid to state and local governments when the House reconvenes...
But when the shouting dies down, it becomes possible to hear something else, something Democrats know is an even greater threat to them this fall. With polls consistently showing that dissatisfaction with Washington is at or near record levels, another word for what voters are feeling right now might be "frustration," or "despair," or "disgust."...
So Democratic House leaders sent their members home for August with pocket cards of talking points headlined "WE CAN'T GO BACK" and a list of weekly messages to push...Last week was "Make It in America" week, to be followed by "Protecting Social Security Week," "Consumer Protection Week," "Small Business Week" and "Troops & Veterans Week." The week of Sept. 6 will bring a reprise of "Make It in America" week....
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That article is not written out of ignorance but propaganda. People need to stop having the presupposition that the left is merely mis informed and have the presupposition that their intention is to directly demoralize the society.
It can hardly be put more succinctly. "They" are NOT dumb.
The claim of demoralizing the society is exactly accurate. It really is demoralizing; i.e. removing the moral discipline of the individual, and hence removing the profound privilege of exercising one's own consciousness. The latter might be called freedom. How graphic has it become?
We have repeatedly expressed on FR the phenomenon of the Bicameral Society, one that is absent of individual moral awareness, only surviving through mass fear, emotion, and authoritarian control. The United States was founded on exactly the opposite human viewpoint.
At one time it was a shining example to the world.
Johnny Suntrade
Amen!
You hit the nail on the head.
Come election day, the voters are going to show the Democrats what is best for them-retirement.
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