A question for thought: why do Liberals routinely get away with such demonization but Republicans don't? That has to be the case, else both or neither would. When one group regularly gets way with murder and the other doesn't, isn't it most logical to look over the enforcers?
“When one group regularly gets way with murder and the other doesn’t, isn’t it most logical to look over the enforcers?”
It’s a good argument, but I don’t believe so. You have to have a long history of dealing with grossly defective psychologies to see this.
When I look at the relationship between ideologues, I see the relationship between a normal (naïve to defective psychologies) psychology, and a Narcissist. The Narcissist does insane evil. The normal psychology says something about it, the Narcissist freaks out beyond all measure, and the normal psychology (who is assuming the Narcissist is normal) backs down, and seeks to defuse what appears on the surface to be an uncontrollably escalating situation. This is how those relationships work, because the normal assumes the Narcissist wouldn’t freak out like that unless he was willing to escalate even further. In truth the Narcissist is freaking so much, so early in the interaction, because he is terrified of seeing it come to an escalated conclusion. The freak out is panic at the thought of the conclusion, not an aggressive willingness to embrace such a conclusion.
Then another time, the normal psychology does something normal, without expressly seeking to serve the interests of the Narcissist, the Narcissist freaks out, and again, the normal placates him, to avoid what seems to be an out-of control situation. Even worse, the normal comes to think that if he allowed the melee to erupt, it would be wrong of him, because he could see it coming, so it was up to him to avoid it.
Over time, this all results in a relationship where the normal thinks it is right to serve the Narcissist, to keep the peace, and avoid what the normal thinks would be an out of control melee if he just acted normal.
If you understand the Narcissist (and Liberal), and just how their brain works, you know that freak out is occurring as a defensive mechanism, seeking to try and shield them from a panic and suffering in the face of criticism that normals can barely imagine. If you press on, in the face of the freak out, you can inflict unimaginable suffering on the Narcissist, and lead them to not screw with you in the future. I crossed that barrier, and saw the collapse, and I have no doubt the Liberal is exactly the same. Press on, in the face of a freak-out, and you will rapidly see Liberalism collapse in shame.
The problem is not that the media freaks out when Republicans criticize Dems. The problem is that Republicans don’t circle the wagons when faced with a freak-out, dig in their heels, and calmly and rationally explain, again and again, why they are right about what selfish, stupid creatures Democrats are, and the damage they are doing.Over time, and with repetition, that will permeate the consciousness of the populace, and poison people against Liberalism. That is where the real battle is fought and won, but we never get there, because the Establishment Rino’s jump in immediately, and support the Libs, and placate them.
They move to placate at the first hint of conflict, which only produces a worse problem in the future. It is as if you have a prisoner strapped down to a table, you break out the electrodes to torture some piece of info out of him, but when he screams, you immediately apologize, unstrap him, and beg his forgiveness. That scream wasn’t a bad thing you needed to rectify with kindness, it was the first sign your strategy was working, and it should have led you to press on. Even worse, the next time you strap the prisoner down, what do you think he will do? Are you going to get your info?
The media has always been a bunch of pathetic progressive shills. Patton’s first sentence in his famous speech to his troops was something like, “Men, I want you to know, all this noise the media is spewing about Americans wanting to run away from this war, and not wanting to fight, is a load of Bullshit!” FDR was portrayed as an Olympic-level athlete. They propped him up on his ass, against a box on a dock, with his legs flopped in front of him, wearing a swim suit, so people would think he spent the day swimming and diving.
Reagan knew this, and went on the attack, relentlessly. What Reagan did was humiliate and ridicule them, and when they screamed in agony, he laughed, and did it again, even better. He treated the media as unimportant, and turned the word Liberal into an epithet.
Liberals are like dogs. When they whine, you can reward them for whining, by retracting your attacks and apologizing. If you do, they will whine even louder and faster the next time, and expect you to back down.
Alternatively, when they whine, you can humiliate them again, make them scream in the agony of being humiliated by what they are yet again, and train them with more Aversive Stimulus, to immediately back down when you criticize them, lest they get it worse next time.
The reason we are losing this nation is because our leaders are weak, afraid of making contact with the enemy, and afraid of striking rhetorically at them with aggression. If we began an aggressive campaign of negativism towards every facet of Liberalism, and demonized Liberals, ignoring their whining, we would poison a significant part of the populace against them and that would have profound effects on the next election. This is basic neurobiology (amygdala, aversive stimulus, etc).
But we should start now. This type of neurological conditioning takes time and repetition.