Dem Messaging Problem: Can’t Get People to Ignore Reality
From a certain perspective, you could hardly imagine anyone more successful than Barack Obama and the Democrats. They came into power with an ambitious, liberal agenda and succeeded in enacting most of it. They passed a great stimulus program, creating or saving millions of jobs, rescued the automobile industry, and started this nation down the path of guaranteed health care for all.
On top of that, they even had plans with cap and trade to finally take on carbon emissions, saving the world for future generations. This was the progressive agenda in full, with accomplishments and ideas most politicians could only dream of, and yet what happened in this election? The Democrats faced a historic loss with the public turning hugely against them. And why? It really comes down to a messaging problem. Liberals just couldn’t get their voices heard over the noise from their one foe that is always trying to tear down all their plans and belittle every accomplishment: reality.
The reality noise machine — with its job losses, terrorist attacks, and budgets — is always trying to shout down liberals’ ideas with its fear-mongering of actual problems that need to be addressed and a physical reality that needs to be appeased. When liberals create or save millions of jobs with a trillion dollar stimulus, there goes reality saying we’re spending money we don’t have and unemployment is only going up. When a progressive plan is proposed to get everyone free health care, there’s reality with its message of gloom that nothing is free and our health care will only get worse. And if we ever try to appease some nation like Iran through peaceful, diplomatic means, reality is always pointing out how close they are to nuclear weapons. Reality is obnoxious, and these days it’s everywhere, and people are actually listening to it over liberals.
For instance, look at the whole “death panel” debate from a while back. Despite numerous liberal journalists and commentators assuring people that death panels were not mentioned in the health care bill and that it was completely made up, people decided to instead listen to the reality of bureaucracy and limited supply over the intelligent people telling them to ignore that. And when New York Times columnist Paul Krugman constantly argues that we need to spend even more to get out of this economic situation, do people listen to the Nobel Prize-winning economist or reality? These days it’s reality, and people are going to keep choosing reality over their own interests unless liberals learn to fight back with better messaging.
It didn’t used to be so hard to get the liberal message heard over the screams of reality. Journalism was once a respected profession where liberals ignored reality to portray themselves as unbiased newsmen while actually pushing people towards liberal ideas and away from thuggish reality. Reality still found ways to occasionally get people to listen to it, whether through economic conditions or war, but its message could be contained. Eventually, though, reality weaseled its way into the media, first through talk radio, then Fox News, and now the internet, where pajama-clad imbeciles with brains too simple to understand anything other than reality spout reality on numerous websites on a daily basis.
Party pooper.
Obamanure is a certifiable psychopath. He kills babies and promotes homosexual perversios while claiming to be a Christian. He has destroyed our economy and done his best to nationalize healthcare, the insurance business, the auto industry, etc. He is an atheist and a communist.And when the truth is finally revealed we will certainly learn that he was never eligible to be POTUS. Lets root that traitor out of there at the next election! And then prosecute him for all the harm he has done.
And why didn’t the American public listen to reality during the 2008 election? Obama had no experience in doing anything. He never ran a town, a city, a state, or even a major corporation, but the liberals said that he was “brilliant” and oh so capable. Reality told many Americans that this was just hype and simply not true. But a majority of Americans, including the liberal main stream media, told Americans to ignore reality and buy into the hype and the public relations. I guess now Americans are beginning to regret that they didn’t listen to reality instead of listening to the liberal spin. Reality also proved that Obama always associated with socialists, communists, and radicals, yet liberals told us to just ignore it. Obama was really a “centrist,” just like Bill Clinton. I guess that was a big fat lie too. Obama is an object lesson in why the American voter should listen to reality more often than liberal spin. Especially during elections.
Clever sarcasm.
You might’ve mentioned how the messaging of Obama’s 4-nation tour was working until he crashed and burned in the reality of South Korea. I guess he thought it would be just a piece of cake to slightly amend the already-agreed-upon treaty. Turns out, “This job is really hard!”
Gee, it actually takes work? I didn’t sign on for this work stuff!
It isn’t just the Democrats who yearn for a return to their bongs. The “orientation” for freshman GOP Congresscritters this week is being conducted by William Bennett, who is famous for oscillating between actual reality and Washington “consciousness”.
I’m wondering whether he’ll be in “This is What Is Really Going On” mode or “This Is How To Get Along Inside The Beltway” mode when he’s lecturing.
I call the odds six-five and pick ‘em.
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Play in one scene.
Liberals and Progressives: “We’re the ‘reality-based’ community.”
Reality: “Say what?!”
(Curtain falls)
Just one more point regarding the election of the Obama-meister. Obama got 52% of votes cast. However only 58% of the electorate bothered to vote. Obama was elected by 30% of registered voters. The change on November 2nd is not so surprising.
The sad thing is that a lot of my liberal friends would agree with this arguement. Not that that should surprise anyone who has ever tried to argue with a liberal.
The gods of the copybook headings, anyone?
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled,
and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
and the hearts of the meanest were humbled
and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up
to explain it once more.
The Dems, and particularly Obama, have more than a messaging problem. It is about reality.
You can’t message about something you don’t understand, and they don’t. Obama, as a man and leader, is particularly incurious and unmotivated to learn anything inconsistent with the world view instilled by mentors such as Ayers, Dhorn and Wright. A fish rots from the head down.
With so many failed plans and policies yoked together and poked through the vast hole of suddenly waked constituents you’d think these political jokes would take the noble Japanese method of leaping on their swords.
But no, they go their own bungling way for 2 weeks and come back dumber and with more superior attitude than ever. “THE THREE HORSES-ASSES OF THE DEM-OCOLYPSE” plan to throw their ideas to pillage the treasury
for the dumbest of the dumb and the poorest of the poor just to get their base back!
We can’t have any one who desires entitlements, be left behind.
It takes guts to pass the blame for their debacle onto the great middle of the country…you know the ones that all have guns and religion on their side!
Oh, get real! As if reality even stands a chance once the skittle pooping unicorns arrive!
It has always been thus. We once had a progressive big spending Rino followed by a 4-term leftist (who ran to the right of the Rino) with unlimited Congressional support. The result was called “The Great Depression” – and we were all taught that FDR “saved” us from it.
The Democrats faced a historic loss with the public turning hugely against them. And why? It really comes down to a messaging problem. Liberals just couldn’t get their voices heard over the noise from their one foe that is always trying to tear down all their plans and belittle every accomplishment: reality.
Sad story. And now, as a corollary to the peoples’ voice in the November 2 election, much of “the world” has repudiated US fiscal shenanigans at the G-20.
In Copenhagen last year, appealing for the ’16 Olympics, Barack rambled on about his own wonderful election while Michelle rambled on about what the Olympics would mean to those poor, beleagured Chicago youth.
The IOC’s response ?
“Get your nutty American inspirationalism off me!”
So much repudiation, so little time. However, as Barack recently noted, he has discovered his own “resiliency” in the face of it.
Soldier on, Barack.
But know one thing, all the “messaging” in the world isn’t gonna turn reality your way.
Ah, the American Jail! Just when the “diversity” sale over the peaceful nature of all Muslims and Islam as the religion of peace was getting into high gear, the airport correctional staff go an start practicing universal precautions and begin strip searching frequent fliers, flight crews, and sheep, regardless of race, creed, wool color or gender. The American Dream lives, if you’re a Lear Jet liberal.
Ah liberals… It’s like they can only argue with the caricature of Conservatives they have in their minds… and then they meet reality! This of course leads to the building of giant puppets and a lot of breathless sloganeering.
And weed binges.
Love the snark, Frank. The closest thing resembling ‘reality’ to libs would be something similar to ‘stream of consciousness’. They think they’re deep. Actually they’re just a bad misinterpretation of a Jackson Pollock reject.
“2. Stay on topic.”
Ruh roh.
Dearest Frank, you realize of course that Liberals never let reality interfere with a good soundbite, campaign slogan, stump speech or piece of legislation.
Reality is all relative. To liberals it’s their crazy Uncle Eustice who smells, has bad breath and BO and likes to watch Nascar. They try never to talk about him and they hide him in the garage whenever there’s company.
“a world where tolerance defeats Islamic extremism.” Best line ever!
A few years ago, a man was killed in a fog-engendered freak accident not too many miles from my home because his perceptions conflicted with reality.
The very foggy road this particular man was driving on is a well-maintained divided highway that rarely sees even moderate traffic. I don’t remember all the details – such as his estimated speed, for instance – but I do know that he was going fast enough that when a large and stationary truck carrying some sort of long, protruding cargo was all of a sudden smack-dab in his way, he had no time to prevent that whatever-it-was coming right through the windshield and taking his head off.
As I recall, the truck driver was charged with something, probably some sort of criminal negligence, and justly so – that’s what flares are for – but that wasn’t any help to our newly decapitated fellow citizen.
He was dead then and is still dead and will be dead ‘til the last trump sounds, all because what he thought didn’t fit with what actually was.
Perception told him that he could see far enough ahead to react to taillights. Perception wasn’t particularly concerned with a deer or a dog – there’d be time to brake: the fog wasn’t that bad.
Perception wasn’t being particularly reckless: certainly one ought to be able to travel North Carolina highways with a reasonable expectation of there not being lethal truck-cargoes a-lurk in the cruising lane. But what perception, however well meaning or innocent, didn’t reckon with was truth.
Truth in the form of critical mass, that nonnegotiable instant when one of two objects attempting to occupy the same space at the same time loses the argument but good.
That is the nature of reality. Illusion cannot protect you from it.