Distractions — Defeating Obama with Aikido
Barack Obama is a master of distraction. It is perhaps the single thing he does best. Indeed, with the help of his loyal media claque, the president is almost as good with distraction as Roger Federer with a tennis racquet or Mickey Mantle with a baseball bat.
When the public starts looking closely at what he is doing, making him vulnerable on matters of genuine significance, Obama changes the subject, distracting the public with a relatively minor issue. That this new issue usually has “hot button” overtones only helps him because it plays into the anger management issues endemic to the human race. Everyone almost always wants to be right about everything, myself unfortunately included.
So his opponents — the GOP — forget about the big issues, concentrate on the insignificant, and end up in disarray, losing elections and turning on each other.
Obama has always behaved this way but now, in his second term, it has become more blatant and the GOP’s reaction more befuddled and extreme, the Tea Party and the Establishment wings going at each other like nitwit cousins in a hillbilly soap opera.
As I write this, the big issues on the national agenda appear to be not the economy and foreign policy, but gun control and immigration.
Hello!
This is going on while unemployment remains at near record numbers (who knows what the real numbers are?), the deficit appears headed for Alpha Centauri, many of our states and cities are bankrupt or near it, higher education is becoming either useless or unaffordable, North Korea just blew up an atom bomb, Iran is about to get theirs, the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies have taken over or are about to take over most of the Middle East and a fair amount of Africa from the Horn to Morocco, and Russia is back to its old ways (assuming it ever left them), flying military aircraft over Guam. And that leaves out China.
I could go on, but you get the point.
And we are arguing about gun control and immigration. Talk about distractions!
But let’s examine them a bit more closely. The whole gun-control debate seems to revolve around two questions — whether background checks should be universal and just how many bullets we should be allowed to have in a magazine. Excuse me while I yawn.
Yes, I know that we are being handed a crock of manure and that Connecticut had some of the most stringent gun legislation in the country when Newtown occurred, but so what? This is still an absurd distraction. What real difference would it make to our lives if background gun checks were universal?
And, yes, I know the purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the populace from a totalitarian government, but do you really think — in today’s world of drones, lasers, communications satellites, and other high-tech weapons and apparatus we don’t even know about, all in the hands of the government — whether a citizen has ten or twenty bullets in his magazine has a significance beyond the level of a low-grade band-aid, and a used one at that? Even a howitzer in every house wouldn’t mean much anymore, considering what the government has at its disposal.
If you really are worried about totalitarianism, better to spend your efforts trying to dismantle the NSA or leading a campaign for everyone to give up their cell phones, undoubtedly the greatest spy apparatus ever invented. And we all use them willingly.
Whatever you do, spending a lot of time debating how many shells you can carry is a monumental distraction and only helps the other side. Just roll your eyes and move on. They’re not going to do very much about this anyway. They’re only doing it for show — and that’s the point. They don’t even care about this themselves. They just care about making you look bad. Don’t let them. Don’t engage.
Practice the Japanese martial art of aikido in which you win by using your opponent’s energy against him — rather like a basketball player who steps back from the player he’s defending and lets him stumble and fall. It’s called “pulling the chair,” as Blake Griffin of the L.A. Clippers discovered, much to his chagrin:
The immigration debate is another area in which to practice this aikido and pull the chair. The obvious point of this debate is to paint Republicans as bigots and cement the growing Hispanic vote for Democrats. Conservatives get on their high horse about the principles of lawful immigration and they are of course right. But again, so what?
In reality, illegal immigration is less of a problem than it has been in ages for a reason most people know: the employment picture, for once, is better south of the border.
This will change, most probably, but before it does, Republicans should seize the so-called high ground and lead the charge to solve the problem as quickly as possible, take all the phony racist accusations off the table, even if it means the dreaded word amnesty (which, as we know, didn’t bother Ronald Reagan) or some euphemism for it.
Don’t like that? Well, ask yourself this. How in the world are we going to repatriate eleven million illegal aliens without organizing one of the biggest bureaucracies this country (or the world) has ever known? And what are we going to do with that bureaucracy after the illegals have gone (if they ever do)? Is that something small-government conservatives, of all people, should want?
Moving beyond gun control and immigration, I have one more suggestion for Republican use of that great reverse-English aikido. Start accusing Democrats of racism for not fixing the economy when African-Americans have suffered worst of all. Do it loudly and often. It would be justified.
It is quite likely that the reason Republicans become engaged in the distractions is because they have no solutions to our economic problems either. Do we really believe that Romney would have done things all that much differently than Obama? Would he have given serious consideration to Simpson-Bowles any more than Obama has? Chances are that the GOP would, after laborious back and forth with Dems, made some peripheral “cuts” ( meaning that they would have reduced the baseline increases of a few programs but certainly not any entitlements ) and hailed it as a victory. I am on Social Security and Medicare and believe firmly that all of us who hope to live the next 15-20 years will have to expect a cut in benefits and payouts across the board and this includes my own. There is no other way to deal with our enormous debt. This is the national dialogue that neither party wants to have. When this finally arrives, it will come at us very fast, as fast as what is now happening in Western Europe.
” Do we really believe that Romney would have done things all that much differently than Obama? ”
Really? Romney would have been a game changer vs this complete fraud obama.
Romney was the most qualified presidential candidate in my lifetime. A proven problem solver who totally understood what the economy needed to get things moving again.
Not only that, he was squeaky clean, a property that just is not seen these days in the dirty art of politics.
But… The dumbed down American public was lured by the offer of free stuff…
Romney was the most typical of the political class that has destroyed America.
Hogwash, Bill, you are what we call an “uninformed” voter.
You can accuse Romney of many things, and I do, but not of being a “member of the political class,” if, indeed, “the political class” is to have any definite meaning as opposed to a vague insult. Most of his adult life was spent outside government, and his proposed solutions to the employment and debt/deficit problems, for better or worse, had a distinctly technocratic, private-sector “turnaround” flavor. It’s probably that, rather than his (in)ability to articulate conservative ideology, that cost him the election. The political class is here to stay. The problem is that the Republican politicians are unable to articulate why that’s such a bad thing, whereas Democratic politicians do a much better job of articulating reasons why having a Progressive political class is such a great thing, not only because it’s emotionally more appealing, but also because the all-encompassing entertainment/media complex functions as their cheerleaders, making sure the important questions never get asked.
Curt A is unhappy because the moderate men are in charge of both parties. Every attempt to modernize America is met by the need to “balance” the needs of part of the electorate, without attention to the economy, and we don’t teach kids in elementary or high school the basics of running a modern economy. With respect to “moderation” consider the Spielberg movie LINCOLN, that turned a Federalist and Hamiltonian into a Jefferson-Jackson type. No one even noticed, though I made a stab here: http://clarespark.com/2012/12/03/index-to-blogs-on-lincoln-sumner-reconstruction/. Happy President’s Day. We are adrift and need a party that will focus on fiscal responsibility alone. But that would not appeal to teachers unions, who depend on public sector statism to survive.
Republicans always cave in, because they act the straight man to the Democratic joker. The leaderships of both parties are united in the belief that the centralization of administrative power into the hands of NY plutocrats and DC bureaucrats is the best way to benefit themselves. It was Bush 43 who kept chanting the mantra: “deficits do not matter.”
The Republicans are not what they claim to be. Their history is much darker than you might think.
The Dems and the GOP more or less switched places in the late ’60s. The upshot is that we now have the GOP as a “Democratic Socialist” false-flag op that pretends to be center-right but is not, versus the Democrats who are flat-out Bolshevik.
Our Founders turn in their graves. No doubt they are truly ashamed of us.
Sorry 1389, but crazy talk is not going to help the cause of liberty and limited government. The Democratic party has been taken over by progressives. The electorate has been bombarded with progressive propaganda, from K-12 and college, to the media and the popular culture. Progressivism is not “Bolshevism,” and the Republicans are not “democratic socialists.” Don’t lose your head. When you let emotions take over you just make conservatives sound as crazy as the media says they are.
Curt, yours is the attitude that is partly to blame for the re-election of Obama. Many of you chose to believe that Romney’s actions as Governor of Mass. were a mirror of what to expect of him as President of the entire United States. As Governor, he went along with what the Legislature and people of Mass. wanted for their State. That was not reflected in his vision for the U.S. and to say that he was no better than Obama is simply wrong.
I am also on Social Security and Medicare Curt and fully realize we may see some minor cutbacks in our benefits in our time. If they come however, they will be less a burden than the total loss of benefits, which must result without some gradual changes in the age of eligibility, means testing and greater contributions on the part of future retirees, over the next ten, or fifteen years hence. Otherwise, the system will collapse of it’s own weight. And seniors are easily frightened over this issue, as they voted hugely for Obama because of those fears generated by Democrats and Obama, which is shameful.
And if you truly believe that Republicans have no solutions, you apparently have not been listening to the narrative on the part of Conservative Republicans. There are serious moves to curtail Federal Government spending and entitlements, many of which are being highly resisted by the people who would be most effected. The alternative to cuts in the Federal budget and paying down our deficit will very likely be the loss of the Republic we have known and enjoyed, at the expense of our grandchildren and great grandchildren. It does not have to be that way.
“Curt, yours is the attitude that is partly to blame for the re-election of Obama. Many of you chose to believe that Romney’s actions as Governor of Mass. were a mirror of what to expect of him as President of the entire United States.”
OldCon, how do you suggest we judge our politicians if not by their actions? We certainly can’t trust their words. Based on his actions in Massachusetts he would have been very similar to Obama; I’m sure you know his health care plan was the model for Obamacare. I think his reaction to Newtown would have been much the same, too. And I voted for the guy. Shows how desperate I am.
I guess Romney understood states rights vs federal rights better than you Paul. He explained it all very clearly.
between curt, bill, and paul, there seems to be a lot of uninformed voters today.
Unfortunately, the problem with blogs like this is mis-interpretation. I do not lament the possible reduction of benefits and payouts in my lifetime. Rather, I say let them come sooner instead of later. The same with means testing. Paul Ryan’s proposal was a good begining to start a real dialogue. It should have been shouted from the rooftops by the GOP and hammered home with tv commercials. Instead of showing a Ryan-type throwing “grandma” over the cliff, Republican commercials should have shown an Obama-type shoving a 30 year old over the cliff with the caption: This could be you in 2040. The biggest problem for the GOP has been articulation and salesmanship. Romney, a CEO, forgot one of the most basic principles of the Marketing Concept: you can have the best product but unless the right people are out there selling it, it will remain in the warehouse.
Seems to me that Roger L. Simon is the effin distraction. Genuine conservatives are quite able to chew gum and walk without tripping over the liberal stumbling blocks strewn before their feet. All of the issues are important including gun rights. Just how long does Ol’ Roger think that government will put up with protests about the so called Patriot Act once they have removed what our Founders called the teeth of the Constitution? The right to bear arms was not just guaranteed as a way to throw off a tyrannical government but to dissuade one from arising in the first place. A disarmed populace is a far too inviting target for said tyranny. Karl Rove is a hack whose greatest accomplishment was foisting George W. Bush upon the American people and he should be challenged at every opportunity. As for Rogers’ concern about the economy, Obama simply isn’t going to do anything to right it anyway, so why let him ruin the rest of what little we have left. Foreign policy? Obama likes the regimes that hate America and not one thing a conservative says will change that. Yup, for someone who calls himself a conservative, Roger reminds me an awful lot of an establishment RINO.
You don’t have to organize a special bureaucracy for illegals; it is already in place. Illegals touch our system in a wide variety of ways: traffic stops, emergency rooms, etc. Simply call someone and detain them. Look at the teacher in Chicago who had a legal hand gun in a case. Phone call, police arrest. It’s a matter of interest, not execution. With immigration, there is no interest in making that call or an arrest.
As for foreign policy and the economy I don’t see this as a distraction by liberals – it simply bores them. However, liberals are emotionally invested in gun control and immigration.
And reality doesn’t matter in any of these issues. No matter what the economy is liberals will cavil about the poor. No matter who’s actually killing who, liberals will see guns as dangerous only in a certain way. Immigration will be a permanent issue for liberals.
The truth is that liberals have a world view with an agenda and that agenda has priorities based on stereotypes and emotion, not actual events. Liberals commonly exaggerate and diminish world events at will until it suits their agenda. The economy doesn’t matter because, like immigration, it’s a class and race-based argument, not a greater good argument. From that point of view, the economy is permanently bad.
Guns are the same way. No matter that 3% of the population is responsible for half the murders – they get a special PC dispensation and are invisible. The people who don’t actually do the shootings have the exact opposite of a dispensation and are distorted and magnified with casual stereotypes that at no point touch on reality.
Trayvon Martin is a perfect example. Though the shooting was an anomaly that in fact symbolized exactly nothing, to a liberal, it perfectly dove-tailed with their emotion-based view of America’s past and present.
Obama’s the same way: in many ways he is the quintessential liberal. Anything not on his PC identity-based plate bores him, e.g., BP oil spill, Mubarak, Chicago murders. He simply has no lifelong emotional investment in such things and they don’t touch him.
One need only look at the 180 degree view liberals have of identical events: white dating site, KKK, black dating site, invisible, Obama assassination drones, not so bad, Bush waterboarding, a crusade, attempting murder at FRC with Chik-fil-A sandwiches, not so bad, Chik-fil-A itself, a crusade, black crime madly disproportionate to their population, white policy at fault, miniscule expressions of white gun violence, a crusade.
An agenda plus an insane world view divorced from real events plus emotion is what runs the Dem Party, not clever sleight’s of hand.
Again, moral relativity says that there is no constant right and wrong. Progressives believe in moral relativity and are thus legally insane. As such, they should be committed/imprisoned until they can prove that they know the difference between right and wrong.
Perfect logic, and beautiful in its application. Alas the use of logic or intelligence is forbidden.
Fail, both sides of the aisle have a distorted, self-serving agenda. not one of them is a master of anything which is how our situation has become so dire. especially, obama who has a low level of intelligence and therefore no understanding or interest in anything outside of his personal comforts. there are no Liberals. they disappeared at least a generation ago. america just got dumber. frighteningly stupid. a sinkhole.
I agree with what you say about liberals. A person used to be liberal in the sense of our Western culture since the Enlightenment, not “A” liberal.
I don’t know what the hell a modern liberal is. They’re definitely people with an underdog mentality who act like they used to be severely bullied as children and now it’s payback time. This is coupled with an endemic cowardice, desire to control, and a distorted sense of justice that verges on paranoia and persecution.
Whatever it is, there’s something pathological about the modern liberal – they seem as if they’re sick in their minds and in their hearts.
As humans we are often driven by things deep-seated within us, but there’s something sick and unhealthy in the liberal mentality. It’s a culture of rot, delusional self-contradiction, intellectual emptiness and a suicide cult to boot.
Defeating Obama? Are you serious?
The GOP will never win another election, not for the rest of the century. The changing demography will ensure the GOP never wins another national election. By 2012, the white share of the electorate had already plummeted to only 72%. This will decline by 2 points every 4 years.
In 2016, the “minority” vote will be up to 30%. Hillary Clinton will start off with a 24-6 lead over Marco Rubio before the election even starts. The GOP will have to capture 63% (44-26)of the white vote to achieve parity with the Dems in the popular vote.
But the electoral college picture is even more dire for the GOP. The swing states are inexorably turning blue, due to growing “diversity” i.e. shrinking white share of the electorate.
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Florida are deep blue states. The growing Hispanic population in these states will guarantee Dem victory for decades to come.
Virginia and North Carolina once deep red states are now swing staes; they are 50-50 — and trending blue; thanks to increasing “diversity”.
Arizona and Georgia, once deep red states are trending blue & will soon be firmly entrenched in the Dem column; due to rapidly growing Hispanic populations.
And the grandaddy of them all, Texas, will soon be a deep blue state — thanks to the emerging Hispanic supermajority. Whites are already only 44.8% of the population in Texas — and are heading towards 30% and falling off a cliff.
The GOP is irrelevant.
If race were the *only* issue you might be correct… but that is a weird assumption. The truth is that the pendulum swings, and it will eventually swing back. Hispanic voters tend to be over-all conservative, especially if you were to take immigration out of the mix. If the economy improves a bit, more people will have jobs and be invested in the process, so the giveaways will be less attractive (it is always great for some folks to get other people’s money, but nobody wants to give up their own).
President Obama was our first outright celebrity president, elected more for his ability to hobnob with celebrities and for his looks than for anything he had ever done. He did have the advantage of being African-American, as well as the even bigger advantage of being able to run on the platform of “I am not Bush.” It is not a lock that the leftists will lose the next presidential election, but it is certainly not theirs for the taking like President Obama’s were.
Get this straight, if nothing else. The monster Hussein and the Marxocrats stole the last election through massive and systemic electoral fraud. Elections no longer matter at the federal level; the outcome will forever be rigged. From here on out, the Marxocrats will “win” every federal election, regardless of what the Republicans do. We now live in a time when the federal government has become completely illegitimate and tyrannical, operating outside any Constitutional restraint. If you don’t start your critiques and assessments of our current political situation with that reality, then you don’t truly understand what needs to be done. And waiting for another election cycle won’t solve this problem.
Before I accept your assertion, I want to see what happens in the midterm elections in 2014. If the D’s take back the house, then you are correct. I’m still hopeful that their pride will do them in. Example: the Skeet shooting nonsense. They rubbed that in our face and all the while they knew we would see it for what it was. Eventually they will get too many balls in the air and won’t be able to keep up the front. Benghazi,Fast and Furious, Buying every hollow point in the universe for target practice, voter fraud, the gun grab, giving tax wavers to favorites,a second credit downgrade. Eventually something will break and then it’s dominoes. Again, let me add hopefully
We, the human race, will defeat communism.
Why do you assume the GOP cannot appeal to nonwhite voters?
There was a time when the GOP was a WASP party. In the 1960s, it learned how to appeal to urban ethnics like Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans, groups that had been solidly Democratic since FDR.
Times change.
The GOP leadership is well aware that the GOP membership cannot continue to be 92% white and less than 8% minority.
We’ll see what they come up with.
…heh…heh….heh….Wouldn’t it be interesting to see the irritation and muttering if we WASPS started agitating with minority lawfare tactics and declared ourselves an Official Minority Group? ….demanding equal opportunity and affirmative action …here…there…everywhere?…allegations of ethnic discrimination….protest meetings….”marches” on Washington…busloads of WASP’s parking along The Mall…..see?
WASP-BUZ -ings…..BusilyUrbanZoning…Uniting!
Think of the delicious hypocrisy emerging. Now…that’s real akikido, ne?
You will have to become poor first. That is how you get the target off your back and a seat at the grievance table. Any identity group’s right to equal treatment is not recognized anymore if they are perceived to have more than other groups. That is why the political class hides its economic advantage in lavish pensions, gold platted health care for life, expense junkets and other perks of power.
….jeeeeezzz……[slapping head]…….Geeze,…
I should’ve caught that 101 level item.
Huh?
A quick check on the US Census website has Texas at 80% white in 2011…
Today we must all be aware that political protocol takes precedence over constitutional procedure. However you say – WHAT THE – what does this mean… in relation to the tabulation whereby we must once again realize that the great reconquesta story is now being rehearsed before our very eyes, in the rise of Marco Rubio… indicating that only a bilingual hombre can receive…the award for reconquesta, unlike Kenyan Hussein Obama whose reconquesta plans don’t hold water. Amigos – friends, we are gathered here not only to accept in behalf of one man without any borders – one who has found that the world in itself which seems to be a time of the toad. This in itself is an edifice of the great glory that has gone beyond, and the intuitive feeling of the American people, based on the assumption that the intelligence not only as Mencken once said, “He who underestimates the American voter will not go broke.” This is merely a small indication of this vast throng gathered here to once again behold and to perceive that which has gone behind and to that which might go forward into the future…we’ve got to hurdle these borders. This is the main deterrent upon which we have gathered our strength and all the others who say, “What the hell did that get?” – We don’t know. We’ve got to perforce support the bilingual nino… And as Miller once said in one of his great novels- what did he … that language is only necessary when bilingual communication is endangered. And you sit there bewildered, and Pinter who went further said “It is not the lack of communication but fear of communication.” That’s what the damn thing is it’s we fear – communication – especially Spanish communication. Oh – fortunately the prize has only been given to authors – unlike the Academy Award which is given to a female and a male, indicating the derision of the human species – Damn it! But we have no paranoia, and Mr. McCain has attained, and has created for himself serenity, and it is only his insanity that has kept him alive in his senility.
Alright, moving right along here in my brief remarks. We speak of the organ…of the orgasm…Who the hell wrote this crap !!!??? And the bi-partisan panel has determined to give the prize to Marco Rubio for his EARNESTY’S RAINBOW. Now EARNESTY’S RAINBOW is a token of this man’s genius…he told me so himself and repeatedly …that he could…in other words, have been more specific, but rather than to allude to the mundane, he has come to the conclusion that brevity is the importance of our nation’s shallow first world existence. God damn! Ladies and Gentlemen. To the distinguished panel on the, on the dais and to the other winners, for poetry and religion and science. The time will come when a first world America will outlive its usefulness. Marx, either Groucho or Karl, I can’t remember which, once said that America is the opiate of the people. I say that when America outlives its usefulness and becomes a majority Spanish speaking nation, then opium…will be the opiate…Ahh that’s not a bad idea… we are going to need that …
All right…However, I want to thank Mr. SIMON, ROGER SIMON of the PJM Press, who has made it possible for you people to be here this motning to enjoy the Reconquesta Citation – Marco Rubio’s . EARNESTY’S RAINBOW – a small contribution to a certain degree, since there are over seven billion people in the world today. 450 of them … million live in the United States and Mexico which is a very, very small amount compared to those who will be miserable elsewhere…Well, I say that you will be on the road to new horizons, for we who live in a society where citizenship is a commodity and a politician can become a TV personality, it’s not easy to conform if you have any morality…I, I, I said that myself many years ago…But I do want to thank la Raza…I mean the DNC, the organization for the $1,000 in affirmative action scholarships they’ve given out…tonight they took in over $4,000,000, but they do have expenses you know, and I think that I have another appointment. I would like to stay here, but for the sake of brevity I, I must leave. I do want to thank you, I want to thank Mr. Roger Simon who just ran through the auditorium pulling his hair out, and I want to thank Marco Rubio – acting el Presidenta of Mexico and also Mr. Obama – acting King of the Unites States – and also I want to thank Professor Irwin Corey and thank you.
Obama is fighting America like a smart boxer. He attacks one place and when we defend that he attacks another place. Obama has one dominant quality; he’s a consummate liar, and the people in his corner, NBC and company, are liars. There ought be a way to connect being a liar to being malevolent.
You are ascribing powers to Obama that he doesn’t have … he’s not a “smart boxer” by any stretch of the imagination. Those tactics can be ascribed to the cabinet members and to the Cloward-Piven HQ in DC … Obama is simply following the script; Benghazi for instance.
I’m tired of hearing how “smart” Obama is; he’s NOT! He’s a charmer, and a liar: the ultimate lowlife grifter and he’s found his con, and it’s one that he only has to show up for. I want Cruz to debate Obama; then we’ll see just how smart a boxer he really is. The golf thing is in itself a con in that it is part of the distraction … ah what the hell …. …
Brother, we all share your frustration.
Obama is a front man for white radicals. He is the bill signer. What his many legislative efforts is intending to bring into being is right from the playbook of the radicals and its passage their work. Obama is just the more public face.
In our time for any politician to be “powerful” by which I mean effective – either for good or ill – he has to betray his base. I don’t like this or agree with this, but it is a true barometer. For radicals, Obama is reliable. He will not betray them.
When FDR ran for President he wanted a Congressional Representative from Texas, John Garner, to be his running mate. Roosevelt was opposed to FDIC and in the strongest way didn’t want it. He wanted capitalization rules to limit how much money banks could loan.
Garner’s banker friends hated the idea of Capitalization rules. They wanted FDIC.
The Texas Bankers, and Garner, did not want any limit to their lending practices and wanted FDIC because more people would deposit their money and they could make even more irresponsible loans.
But Garner wanted to be Vice President. So he betrayed his base and accepted the Capitalization rules, and Roosevelt betrayed his base, and relented and accepted FDIC.
Now you can see this as compromise but it is also betrayal. Garner’s bankers really hated the constraints the capitalization rules would create and Garner forced the rules on them, and Roosevelt really hated the idea of FDIC.
Neither was “reliable” in this sense. Both were powerful in this sense and, in that sense, reliable. When Romney was Governor he passed laws that stopped Mass Corporations from parking their money out of the State to avoid paying taxes. One of their own betrayed them. Its one of the things that made Romney effective.
Obama never betrays his base. He hasn’t the temperament – or guts. He is the radical front man so much so that one of the frightening things about this administration is how much a focused beam of pure doctrinal radicalism his administration is.
Actually, he’s going at it like a crooked boxer that knows the Referree (the Mainstream Media) is on his side.
There is nothing smart about him, he just knows he’s safe from getting those calls for blows below the belt because the Ref will look the other way, yet call a blow to the chin below the belt on his opponent.
So the WON, his administration and the LSM are nothing more than a WWE wrestling program.
Obama is smart like a dog chasing a car is smart – the dog might actually catch the car. But the dog didn’t think through what the actual goal was – so now what? Obama has no real idea nor interest in what to do with it. And it shows.
So, Simon thinks the GOP forgot about the big issues – like the Federal Debt and the economy? WRONG.
He thinks the GOP concentrated on the insignificant – like Liberty?!? WRONG.
But I *do* argue with a man who so vehemently promoted RINO Romney, and suggested that those who criticized his statist record had a mental illness. I think Simon has some *serious* soul searching to do.
Maybe they won’t censor this, my 6th attempt at a post, as they have the other 5….
It seems that the Alinsky principles do work in the macro. As a community organizer in Chicago, this was his stock and trade. It seems logical that the process, in the battle “against the man” would include shifting targets, disruption of debate,
attacking where there is no defense. This is classic rabble rousing. Just as there were strategy sessions in Chicago during his early years, there must be those strategy sessions ongoing now. Only this time the stakes are clearly more valuable AND dangerous. We’re not talking better street lighting or more garbage pickups or whatever community organizers rail against nowadays.
Perhaps, one day he’ll get his. I’m reminded of that line from Thomas Becket “will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”
Or something to that effect.
Geez. How complicated is this stuff? It’s all bear baiting, and conservatives are the bear.
Gun control is opportunistic focus and the strategy is no different than the media supposedly “tripping up” Akin: ask a direct question that reveals honest answers that they reckon won’t play to the public. Case in point was Lapierre’s idiotic claim that the media was responsible for newtown, i.e. media violence creates gun violence. STUPID STUPID STUPID. All this clown had to do was say nothing. Instead, the media has a free pass to claim that a) the NRA is making stuff up, and b) this is further proof that the conservatives see media as the enemy and want it muzzled.
And of course conservatives DO see media as the enemy and want it muzzled. You have written about ‘taking the media back’ (whatever that means) yourself, haven’t you?
Essentially the left is the only entity using Aikido and it does so every time some worthless ignorant clown expresses an poorly thought out personal opinion that is nationally represented as being common to republicans.
Was Lapierre’s claim poorly considered? Yes. Here’s why.
1. The basic principle we use to go after the left’s attempts to use climate as a tax weapon is that Correlation ain’t Causation. It’s what works. And now courtesy of Lapierre, republicans are claiming that correlation *IS* causation. Just brilliant. Nothing like consistency.
2. The logical conclusion to the notion that media violence causes gun violence is — wait for it — MORE government, specifically that which regulates and/or suppresses expression of the target du jour. Again, just brilliant. (And the culture warriors here spit on me for pointing out that they’re statists…)
3. The left will then claim that the republicans want to censor, to diminish free speech, and you can damn well guarantee that some clown will be the bear and get baited into saying precisely what the left wants to hear. (The jury is out as to whether said clown will invoke his/her deity and morals or simple authoritarian douchebaggery as teabaggers are prone to do.)
Next election? Dems win. Why? Republicans are painted as being against the 1st amendment. It doesn’t take much painting to swing 5% or less of the electorate. That’s all it takes to win. 5% or less.
You don’t require nostradamus here to see there’s a train wreck coming up if this media violence meme keeps being pushed by the right. Can the republicans stop this? Probably not. Here on this web site there’s another article from Nemerov where the same “it’s the media” claim is being made. The ‘whipping up the troops’ stuff has already begun — and right on cue they are salivating.
So, Roger, is it necessary to be the bear AND tie yourself to a tree?
The political moves suggested by Roger Simon: Going along with Obama on immigration, gun control or anything else, does not change the strategic equation: It isn’t GOP political positions that kills the party. It is the inability to communicate to the vast numbers of voters who are informed and swayed almost entirely by entertainment. Yes, the Democrat monopoly of mainstream journalism is a serious problem, but for the under-30 voters, Hispanics, African -Americans, and other voters, the critical problem is getting a mere hearing of Republican views. Comedy Central, sitcoms, late night TV, Hollywood and musicians effectively blast loudspeakers drowning out the little transistor radio of Republicans. Until Republicans and/or conservatives compete with the entertainment establishment, the GOP will not be heard, no matter how much dancing or aikido they might try.
When I heard that Rand Paul would follow Marco Rubio’s response to the SOTU with his own response I thought, “Finally! The Republicans are getting smart!” My interpretation was that Rubio, who won his Senate seat as a Tea Party candidate, would be vulnerable to the MSM’s vicious attacks on The Tea Party the minute his response was over. But having Rand Paul respond as well would blunt their weaponry. When the MSM burst into their drink-of-water hysteria immediately after I thought that it was out of frustration for having had their target softened. The only people who really wound up looking foolish were the media elite.
Of course critical thinking and a comprehensive perspective on history and human nature are still the best foundations for policy making. Conservatives are in the right on most issues, on principle.
What surprises me, however, is that we just keep reloading and firing with the same ammunition that is no longer as effective. We are now operating in a post-reason era.
The movement that is systematically dismantling our culture does not operate within the realm of reason. Heck, they don’t even appear to be obliged or willing to define what Western Culture is to be be replaced with. They are a wrecking crew. They don’t need no stinkin’ reason. Their overtures target the lizard brain and our most base impulses.
If you want to realize the fundamental difference between the so-called progressives and the rest of us, study the founding of the USA as contrasted with the French Revolution and it’s consequences. I fear that’s the direction this crowd is headed. And, as usual, when things don’t work out so well, it’s nobodies fault. It just happened.
So, what to do? Roger might be on to something.
Obama’s advisers have a shrewd understanding of the psyche of the GOP base.
They know that the GOP base hates him so much that it will reflexively oppose anything he says or does. Hence all he has to do is go after a highly unpopular target–white collar criminals on Wall Street, lunatics with guns who could have been stopped with comprehensive background checks–and the GOP base will reflexively say no.
Then all Obama has to do is tell the public that the GOP sides with white collar criminals and with armed lunatics. Gotcha!
To fix that, the GOP base has to stop reacting with its emotions. It has to lose the reflexive anger and bitterness from the 2008 election, and at least *act* like it knows what good governance would look like.
Good governance would look like responding to the concerns of most Americans. Poll after poll shows that the two big issues Americans care about are the economy and jobs. But those are clearly not the priorities of PJ Media and other conservative blogs. The number of articles on guns outnumbers the number of articles on unemployment by about 20 to 1.
The GOP base has to show that it’s a pro-jobs party, a pro-full-employment party, not just a pro-gun party. It’s not doing a very good job of that right now.
PJ Media can start by running as many articles on the economy and jobs as it has run on guns.
Roger, you open with “Barack Obama is a master of distraction.”.
That seems to be a correct assessment. But then I wonder. How can the public be distracted from that which would go unreported regardless of the situation?
There is no plan on the part of the MSM to report on the realities that face us. Not ever. If events, real or contrived, make that job a little easier then so be it. If a distraction cannot be found then the MSM simply will wave goodbye to the whole story. Or lie about it. Meanwhile, the public will remain ignorant. And the media will say “that‘s okay….they can’t hunger for that about which they are totally unaware”.
Take guns and immigration off the table and the major issues and the truth will get through? No it won’t.
O’Dismal is smart enough. He’s got the Marxist Media on his side which will cover and obscure every and all mistake. He’s got Google and other very savy computer experts on his side. These people can comb, sort, and sift data like George Orwell could have never imagined. And he has advertising on his side….those goofy, but brilliant svengalis running out of Chicago. And he has a raft of really wealthy people from George Soros, to Jane Fonda, and Sean Penn willing to provide funds (not to mention the People’s Repb. of China).
But most of all O’Dismal is completely diabolical. He’s willing to say and do anything at any moment. It doesn’t matter whether he contradicted that position one day or one year ago. He’s utterly amoral and unfettered by any constraint. In fact, he’s about the perfect Utopian.
Next week will be interesting, since Obama doesn’t want to talk about the ongoing bad economy, and the big media are happy to oblige. But the sequester deadline, and the obligatory blaming of Republicans for a plan created by the White House, demands the president and the media talk about the economy, even if it’s just to stage a phony freak-out about the effects of the cuts.
You may be able to scare the low info voters about Mitt Romney, but can you selectively scare them about the economy, telling them the sequester will be the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the universe, while at the same time continuing to say the Obama economy is good and getting better every day? That’s really going to be a tough slalom course to navigate, though I have no doubt Team Obama and the big media will give it their all.
“Defeating Obama with Aikido”
How about blunt force trauma? Metaphorically speaking, of course.
“How in the world are we going to repatriate eleven million illegal aliens without organizing one of the biggest bureaucracies this country (or the world) has ever known?”
They got here somehow, right? I mean, they didn’t just sprout here. Enforce the laws that are already on the books, take away their easy employment, punish anyone who hires an illegal, deny their access to welfare benefits, etc. Why is their getting back to their home country our problem?
I’m with you. If we cut off all their benefits and made it even remotely difficult for them to get hired, they’d take off for home like roaches when the light’s flipped on.
Regarding your assertion that the second amendment affords the citizenry no protections from a government with the high-tach weaponry our armed forces possess, then how do you account for Afghanistan? Goat-herders in a desolate land armed primarily with AK-47s and IEDs. At some point, the armed forces have to take to the field to secure a victory on the ground. There are a lot of guns privately held in this country — thankfully — and there’s always a chance that the military and various law enforcement personnel will consider their pledge to uphold the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Already there are sheriff’s organizations, as well as some local bodies who are refusing to enforce any federal law that runs counter to our right to bear arms.
As for the rest of it, as other mention, Obama simply draws attention to another “crisis”, abetted by a kneeling press, to take the pressure off the real problem. How much attention is being paid to Benghazi and Fast ‘n Furious in the media, or in the minds of the majority of people? How much attention is being paid to the fact that the press can’t get pictures of Obama swinging a golf club with Tiger Woods? Aside from this site and others of a conservative bent, it’s all about a golf outing. Look at Drudge today. What are they hoping to glean from his golf outing? What ball he’s using? White wood tees or yellow plastic ones? I’m on pins and needles!!!!
Regarding your assertion that the second amendment affords the citizenry no protections from a government with the high-tach weaponry our armed forces possess, then how do you account for Afghanistan?
Seriously?
1. they have virtually no government as you understand it and are fed weaponry from the outside, no different than charlie wilson did in the 80′s. Karzai is more mayor of Kabul than a president.
2. ROE. nobody is out to kill/suppress the citizenry.
3. 2nd amendment doesn’t presume favourable ROE
California water really has warped your brain, Roger! The Second Amendment is supposed to give us the ability to protect ourselves from an arrogant government. When people talk about “consent of the governed” I think they see a leadership that resists nuking their own people and fears the blow-back from drone attacks on Main Street without due process. You might see it different in California where nothing is illegal and all the sinners saints.
I recently read that Solzhenitsyn said people in the Gulags talked about how stupid they had been to NOT attack the government agents when they came to their door, even if it was only hammers. I don’t need a nuclear weapon or a drone to make a group of government agents fear for tomorrow if they do a no-knock entry on my house for this blog post. All I really need is 20 or more rounds of 7.62 NATO flying through the window in rapid fashion. If they choose to save ursurpers lives by issuing drone strikes without due process on people that have universally registered their firearms, THEN we’re at a different place entirely.
Besides, Roger, do you really believe if every German Jewish family had shot ONE German officer when they were rounded up that there would still have been a Holocaust?
There’s nothing to account for.
In 1979, the Afghans were on the verge of being defeated by the Soviets’ attack helicopter force, until Carter and Reagan supplied the Afghans with surface-to-air Stinger missiles.
In 2001, the U.S. army routed the Taliban in just a few months. In a decade of fighting, the Taliban has never come close to regaining power in Kabul.
Can bands of guerrillas continue to hide out in the mountains and the hills? Of course. But can they be anything other than an annoyance to a modern occupation force? No.
Now with the Libyan rebels, it was again Stinger missiles (this time supplied by Obama) that turned the tide for the rebels by neutralizing the government’s air power.
Moral: Since the start of World War II, no force has ever defeated a foe that had air supremacy.
Obama’s engaged in a display of prowess with his utmost energy, which is never above vapid. It should be obvious from the examples Mr. Simon states, at the very least. He knows nothing else, and has no interest in anything else. He throws off governing and responsibility with the expertise of an Aikido master.
And demographics? How about ethnic cleansing of all races except black and latin? With legislation to facilitate that.
In my area, a little over 1000 miles from D.C., blacks and latins act as if they have been granted deeds for every activity and venue. All others must pay homage (and cash).
This is part of the plan; There will be massive racial unrest before the next election, which will play right into Obamas, and the Democtars, hands. Everybody knows how much they cherish a “crisis”.
A couple weeks ago a local police car was tailing a black motorist down my street with lights and siren. The motorist had damage to the front of his car as if from a fresh accident. They stopped in front of my house, and the police officer yelled at the motorist to exit his car. The motorist just sat there, and the officer yelled that the motorist had two seconds to get out of his car. The motorist yelled “I’ll be back tomorrow”, and drove off with the officer chasing after him. This is a prime example of how the attitude has changed, in this country, of this “group” toward authority. Even when they are NOT on drugs.
And the Zimmerman trial will prove to be a fuse to all this pent up and inflamed hatred.
Bravo!
It’s what pickpockets and magician do so well.
Unfortunately Republicans have taken the bait and can’t shake the hook. The Democrats have skillfully avoided and evaded the real issues for the past three years. Knowing that if they put forward a budget it would force them to acknowledge the reality of their reckless spending.
Republicans also need to go on the offensive much, much, more against the mainstream media. Republicans have to STOP caring what the mainstream media will think or say about them. The mainstream media will ALWAYS HATE Republicans and will never have a good thing to say about them. The mainstream media will also always portray Republicans as bigots and heartless, cruel, and selfish rich people. So from a public relations point-of-view, Republicans can’t look much worse in the eyes of the mainstream media.
But, in a strange way, this can be sort of liberating. If you have nothing to lose with the mainstream media, then you can actually SAY anything you want and the mainstream media will report it. Take for example what just happened this weekend on Meet the Press. Ultra-liberal hack David Gregory was hammered by, of all people, John McCain on Benghazi. You can see it here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/18/video-do-you-care-david-do-you-care-david/
Finally, FINALLY, somebody is starting to call out the mainstream media on this subject. ALL Republicans (especially conservatives) should be on the attack on EVERY interview they do regarding Benghazi, asking the same question McCain asked, “Do you care what happened to those four dead Americans?” Even Hillary Clinton famously said, “Who CARES what happened in Benghazi?” Well, WE care, and THAT is the point. To make people care, you actually have to have some backbone and stand up to these people. And the more you do it, the more people will start paying attention. If you want to win elections in the future, you had better start doing a lot more of this.
Americans LOVE a winner and a fighter. They will not tolerate people who make excuses and look and act like losers. In 2004, after the Democrats lost to George W. Bush, did the liberal Democrats roll over and die and cry out for more “bipartisanship” and say that they had to become more conservative in order to win elections? They most certainly did not. If anything, the party became a lot more liberal and acted that way. And guess what? They won in the 2006 midterms and both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. So much for rolling over and giving up to the enemy.
Time to stand up for what you believe in and the fastest way of doing that is by standing up to the mainstream media. Once you defeat the mainstream media, you defeat liberals and their insidious message of more big government, more big spending, more big taxes, more big debt, and more big deficits. Take the battle to them and you will win. After all, it’s the American way.
If only it were that easy, L46. It’s not as if conservatives are that dumb but they are at a constant disadvantage because they are not in command of the narrative. Wresting it away from the other side would take a whole lot of money, time & determination. Too many conservatives prefer to stay out of the arena & go about their business dwelling in the private sector. Add to all this the element of the entitlement mentality that absorbs both sides of the aisle & one has the perfect recipe for what we are all going through.
Two solutions: Secession or expatriation. Nothing else makes any sense, and the first is unlikely in the extreme, since the liberals won’t have it and the “conservatives” only want to “conserve” what exists now, guaranteeing disaster.
As I read somewhere, the Democrats are the enemy and the Republicans are cowards and traitors who go along with almost everything the enemy proposes. So why would anyone even consider an electoral solution?
Count me among those who don’t see this as complex at all.
…the Tea Party and the Establishment wings going at each other like nitwit cousins in a hillbilly soap opera.
No, that’s too pat and intramural, though understandable: the RNC contains more than it’s share of stump-toothed rubes and dim-bulb dowagers. More to the point, the rotten pols at GOP central, and the kingmakers — together, they make up the serial failures known as ‘the establishment’ — have forfeit all credibility and, with it, any right to be treated seriously by uncounted (tens of?) millions across the spectrum, not just by disgusted Republicans. The current non-solution seems to be ‘let’s ask Karl Rove and Speaker Boehner’. Magical, right?
Where, the rest of us ask, is the horse and the rider? Nowhere near the GOP, that’s for sure. Yesterday’s losers are on empty and need you far more than you need them. Stick a fork in ‘em and move on.
Aikido is not going to happen. Too much of what we call conservatism has been farmed out to talk radio and Fox News and they need this grist. Its made it easy for Democrats to have a non-dialogue dialogue. This is what happens when you look for a media solution and don’t dismantle the Democrats machine from the bottom.
Look, at this point it is better to just let the Obama and the Left have their way on the big issues that were ratified by the election. Bad economy, well most of the country voted for a continued bad economy under Obama and his policymakers. So find a way to make your living and don’t worry about the big picture.
Iran getting the bomb? Well, the Left and most of the voters re-elected Obama so they must want Iran to get the bomb. Bad for Israel, them most the American Jewish community voted for this outcome. Besides, Iran with the bomb is a threat to Europe, so why worry. If they go the terrorist route, they’ll blow up NYC or LA, not something to worry about since most of those voters wanted this outcome.
Best to let them enjoy the consequences of their decision.
That doesn’t mean the right shouldn’t develop plans on how to mitigate the damage but really, why keep telling them about their conscious decision. Just let it play out.
Gun control, however, is a new problem and one that threatens intimately. Plus it is one that can be dealt with by introducing politicians to the concept of an unforgiving, motivated voter.
Roger says it is unfortunate that everyone wants to think they are right, including himself. He is right.
He asks if people really believe larger magazines is a match for the weapons technology and lethality of drone. The answer is yes. Especially if we had howitzers. No amount of government technology can defeat an armed population. And, of course, if the government thought they had the edge, why do they want to disarm us. Someone thinks an armed populace has the edge.
People who do not want the death penalty argue it is not a deterrent. It is not the case that they don’t want the death penalty because it doesn’t deter. Its that they don;t want the death penalty so they argue it doesn’t deter.
Principled people who do not approve of a death penalty would argue against the death penalty if it deterred or didn’t. They may argue against the infallibility of the death penalty, or they may argue against the inevitability of most murders not happening.
We know the death penalty is a deterrent because people on death row spend their last days feverishly trying to have a court vacate their death penalty.
For example, I am opposed to the death penalty because I don;t trust lawyers. I understand and respect the arguments in favor of the death penalty but the state has a habit of executing anybody.
That’s a load of hooey.
An armed population is cannon fodder for any military that has complete control of the air.
Would you like to imagine what thousands of armed citizens will look like after they’ve been strafed by A-10 attack planes?
No military that has air supremacy has ever been defeated.
I’m with you on the death penalty; I simply don’t trust government to do something so irrevocable. I used the same tools and rules to take people’s jobs as prosecutors use to take their liberty or life and I’m better at it than most prosecutors plus had the advantage of practicing before expert arbitrators and ALJs, not 12 morons with drivers’ licenses. Lost too many I should have won and won too many I should have lost to trust such a system with people’s lives. That said if you do something to me or mine, you’d best pray to God that the cops find you before me or a member of my family finds you.
Simon is right that Obama is a master of distraction. So is the entire left. So are all liberals. So are economists, psychologists and sociologists. So are liberal historians for that matter.
The feuds going on now may not be good – if fact they aren’t – but they aren’t feuds based on distractions. Ironically we might be better off if they were.
You forgot the alternate ploy for the left — the False Flag, where someone pretending to be one thing is actually pushing another’s agenda: like all the so called conservative talking heads on MSM counselling surrender and hatred of Rush Limbaugh so the left will love and respect them better. Congratulation Mr. Simon. Are you looking for a gig on MSNBC or CNN?
You should publish on HuffPo. That gets read by the right sort.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Down With the Presidency By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
http://www.thedailybell.com/28712/Llewellyn-H-Rockwell-Jr-Down-With-the-Presidency
My comments here might be just too naïve, but . . . I’m really uneasy about the huge SILENCE on the part of the very large number of people, some at very high levels of the military and government, who have been directly, and adversely, affected by Benghazi—just one example of Obama’s sheer incompetence and malice, and the danger it causes to the security of the USA, not to mention the world.
These people know that Obama and crew are lying snakes with treason in their bones. But, to a person—all with devastatingly incriminating information to share—they say nothing: e.g., remember that Charles Woods, the father of SEAL, Tyrone Woods, spoke out boldly after his murder in Benghazi. In fact, the elder Woods accused the White House of murder. Now that we know, for sure, that Obama and the White House did absolutely nothing to help the Benghazi victims, wouldn’t one expect that a vindicated Charles Woods would step up his demand for justice for his son? The answer is obviously yes, but we only hear crickets from Mr. Woods—and everyone else: all of the escapees from Benghazi, the families of the dead, the experienced ME military leaders relieved of their command, FBI, CIA, and State Department operatives, etc. Something is really rotten in the USA.
Some of these people must be patriots and thoroughly disgusted by what’s happening to their country. I’ve wondered if some of them might be planning to speak out at some point. If not, that’s an astonishing indictment of the integrity of Americans well placed to “out” Obama and his treacherous posse. (If a powerful group of people were to speak out, would it make a difference?)
This apparent conspiracy of silence, which must involve hundreds of patriotic Americans, is truly scary—terrifying, actually. How is it that they’re ALL keeping their mouths shut? How, exactly, are Obama and company compelling them to behave like spooked sheep—like lambs to the slaughter? I’d appreciate some feedback on this.
Excellent comments. Also why haven’t we heard from any of the WONs former professors, dates from college/HS or former partners when he worked as an agitator? Surely someone who knew him from his past must be proud of their relationship to come forward and brag??? Right?
I agree that for the complete Dept of State and our intelligence agencies to remain silent when they were a complete sieve during Bush’s presidency is amazing. Not one leak?? We know the State is a bunch of lefties but intelligence is another story. Yet the WON has them silent as well. So it seems within their power to silence citizens.
Why many on “our” side do not want to consider the fact that our whole government has become despotic concerns me. Now look at how despotic some states are becoming. So if you are sitting on the fence about the future you had better get ready to decide. There are only a couple ways this will end.
Easy.
At the top level, generals, political appointees, CEOs, etc., most patriots have been replaced with leftists. The ones that have been left in place are either easy to blackmail, or are only interested in personal gain (as are most people who rise up in any kind of political structure).
At the lower levels, they are threatened with ruin. The threats don’t have to be explicit and will never come from somebody who can be directly tied to the marxists. “It would be a shame if your handicapped child couldn’t get the care she needs, wouldn’t it? But luckily for you, I’ve been empowered to to make sure she gets personal care from the Mayo Clinic for life.” works every time…and everybody has the equivalent of a handicapped child somewhere in life.
I fear you’re correct. Leftism has, it seems, taken over everywhere, especially, as you say, at the top of most institutions. If one’s not a lefty, getting ahead in positions of authority is pretty difficult.
Perhaps I’m naive, but I’ve always had the idea that the Americans wouldn’t fall for socialism and chicanery in high places in such a holus bolus way as they seem to have under Obama. If the USA fails, so does freedom everywhere. Kyrie eleison.
“I’d appreciate some feedback on this.”
Whenever something doesn’t make any sense, follow the money. I figure people have been bribed or worse, threatened as indicated in the above post. The level of corruption among our gov’t officials has reached the point of no return. Ours is now not a great nation but a proverbial banana republic.
“Follow the money.” Yes, that makes sense—but I’m still altogether dismayed that SO MANY are involved in this and, it seems, there’s not one” good man” to break the silence. (I’m a Canadian conservative, who’s looked to the USA as a protecting older brother I could altogether rely on. With what’s happening now, I feel pretty vulnerable! And I fear for the safety of the whole world.)
As Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.” That so many, apparently “good people” are involved in the Benghazi cover-up, and not one, so far (and Charles Wood has gone silent), seems up to the task of speaking the truth is a really sad indication of the rot now destroying, from the inside out, the once great USA. This situation’s also quite terrifying: this kind of thing happens in totalitarian states. Therefore . . .
And most people are sleepwalking right over the cliff.
I’ve read studies in recent years that following your first instinct in a situation most often leads to success. I’ve seen it in pieces on dating, career advice, and sports. Instinct is quick and decisive, but it’s base. The “success” gained from following instinct is about taking advantage of people. Obama and his people follow their instincts, and I think they would be happy to drag us down with them, to the level of animals. I think the powers of corruption want to reduce everyone’s thoughts to “eat”, “mate”, and “fight”.
Reasoning is a higher form of mental activity, meant for human beings, and we conservatives are superior with it. We demonstrate it all the time on our websites. The one disadvantage is it’s time-consuming. We can explain our position eloquently and precisely, but while doing so, the liberals can make a dozen appeals to people’s lower thoughts.
The Eastern philosophers in yoga and zen say there’s another form of thought higher than both instinct and reason. It’s intuition. The yogi Paramahansa Yogananda wrote saying intuition is when we connect with Heaven and let it act through us. I like Roger’s idea of using Eastern martial arts strategies, because they involve meditation and moral principles in their training. Yogananda found a lot of common ground between Asian religions and Christianity as far as connecting with God through prayer and devotion. I wonder if we can defeat corruption by finding our centers and letting Heaven take the wheel.
“When they bring you to trial, do not worry about what what you are going to say or how you will say it; when the time comes, you will be given what you will say. For the words you speak will not be yours; they will come from the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” Matthew, Chapter 10, Verses 19-20.
“The GOP will never win another election, not for the rest of the century.”
Assertions like that are meaningless. No one knows what will happen. The number of variables in determining the future are staggering. Plus real change flies below the radar long before it appears fully formed. Very few people see it coming. What made Adam Smith a brilliant man was his realization that no one, certainly no government agency, could know enough to predict the future behavior, economic or otherwise, of any society.
With all due respect, are you naive or wishfully thinking out loud?
Perhaps the rest of the century is a stretch, but with 11 million+ illegals voting, plus the continued and growing votes of the low information voters, the suicidal, guilt-ridden white progs and middle of the road voters and unions, at least at the federal level, the left sure looks good for the next several elections or so years.
That presumes America still has a two party system and valid elections. Which also presupposes America is still a functioning nation. And if past is prologue, sorry, the future does not portend well for America.
on the media bias: keep repeating the question. Obama went on TV and said congress should be running out of questions because we aren’t answering any of them. gun control: the question is how will the laws being put forth going to stop these deranged people from going off? the state of the onion address: we keep wishing we could get further involved in the day to day lives of our subjects. when they go off track keep asking the question. on sequestration: no money for the military, give the federal workers a raise. immigration reform: don’t let Obama take credit for it. when he blames the the republicans for him dropping the ball, answer him in a press conference. somebody please start calling him out. i think the senator who call him a liar to his face has stones the size of Mt. Rushmore. Boehner has to start using the media, as much as they do.
Roger’s point about distractions is well taken but it’s really much more than that…but his example does illustrate what the despicable left has pulled off with their power coup in America.
Let’s step back. In a rational world, political leaders would propose serious solutions to legitimate national problems, the solutions would be debated and the public would choose the approaches that best address the problems, or at least, the approaches that are marketed the best. We’ll call that “adult thinking”. In general, it’s the approach that Republicans attempt to follow.
The real problem, however, is that the leftists play an entirely different game. They accept none of the premises of problem identification, solution formation, debate, and rational selection. For them, it’s strictly a game that they play to win, and it’s 100% removed from whether or not their idiotic solutions are effective or not. In fact, their “solutions” aren’t chosen because they are effective, they are chosen because they sound good to people who don’t pay attention or who don’t give a shit about the country, only their own personal gain. Moreover, they don’t engage in rational discourse in the slightest way. They wouldn’t ever engage in debate; they might lose. So everything, EVERYTHING, they do is designed to “win”, where winning has absolutely nothing to do with what is good for the country or even rationality. You can see this played out in thousands of ways, from “Julia” and her “free” contraceptives, to the buffoon “journalist” Dick Gregory yesterday who continually repeated “what cover-up?” as McCain was describing the blatantly obvious Benghazi cover-up. Basically, this is junior high tactics, but implemented by armies with billions of dollars behind them.
Another example is the one Rush pointed out last week. Obama only proposes policies that any rational person would call insane. They won’t be accepted, even by his own party. Democrats voted 100% against his budgets, for example. His purpose isn’t to implement them, because if they were implemented, he would have trouble dodging responsibility for their guaranteed failure. His purpose is to be able to blame Republicans and congress for everything that goes wrong in the country, because they didn’t accept his idiotic proposals.
The very presence of Obama, an incompetent, stupid, venal, mean, corrupt and evil person, on the national scene is the greatest example of all. He is sold as the opposite, and 51% of the country buys into the con. Now he proceeds with the balkanization and destruction of a great nation.
Republicans play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Leftists play guerrilla warfare.
But, you now, it doesn’t matter that they don’t play by the rules of rational people. The rules of rational people are long gone. When the other side accepts no rules, and you don’t have overwhelming superiority, then there are no rules. Their tactics, whatever you think about them, have been successful and allow them to gain near tyrannical powers even though a solid majority of the country, if they thought about it without the 360 degree pressure of leftist media influencing their every waking moment, would totally reject.
If Republicans (or the Tea Party for that matter) don’t adapt, then the country dies. Boehner may actually be a good and decent man. Good or not, the country is falling off the cliff as he peruses his 20-years obsolete rule book for his next tactic for idiots.
Frankly, it’s probably far too late already. But wouldn’t it be nice to at least see a party that recognizes that what they are doing is an absolute failure?
For(leftists), it’s strictly a game that they play to win, and it’s 100% removed from whether or not their idiotic solutions are effective or not. In fact, their “solutions” aren’t chosen because they are effective, they are chosen because they sound good to people who don’t pay attention or who don’t give a shit about the country, only their own personal gain. Moreover,(leftists) don’t engage in rational discourse in the slightest way. They wouldn’t ever engage in debate; they might lose. So everything, EVERYTHING, they do is designed to “win”, where winning has absolutely nothing to do with what is good for the country or even rationality.
I couldn’t help thinking of Al Gore (“got C’s and D’s in science”) as I read this, a guy who flat out refuses to “debate” any of his detractors on the subject of manmade global warming.
Or this President’s casual affirmation of climate change at human hands in last week’s SOTU
Roger,
On your last point: That is precisely what Cornel West is saying and doing, when he criticizes Obama all the time, as he does—coming from the Left. As Robert P. George pointed out on his Facebook page, West is honest, and cares deeply for the fate of the poor and the African-American community. While conservatives differ with him on solutions, he does not refrain from calling out Obama on his obvious economic failures.
cornel west is doing
if he were serious, he’d call obama out
for the fake that he is
but he won’t, because obama is b l a c k
the congressional black caucus
they’re full of crap
they care only for themselves
just like obama
who also despises american blacks
cornel west is doing
if he were serious, he’d call obama out
for the fake that he is
Q. What effect has Cornel West had on Obama by criticizing his failed economic policies?
A. None.
is it forbidden to opine on pjmedia that cornel west is getting nowhere fast with his criticism of obama
how much influence has cornel west’s criticism had on obama and his failed economic so far?
So you would solve the problem of unemployment by letting in 30,000,000 new laborers (after the inevitable chain migration)? Naw, you’re not that stupid. You just don’t give a frack about the historical American population. And you’ve developed all sorts of high-falutin rationales to explain why that’s a morally superior position. But it isn’t.
Aikido, a Japanese term, is one martial art (of many) of unarmed combat. It stresses techniques of breaking joints and killing by body throws, arguably a branch of Jujutsu. It has nothing to do with pulling chairs out from under folks. Like all forms of martial conflict, feints and psychology are vital.
That said, your analysis of our politics is spot on. Instead of solving problems which are destroying our society, we are diverted into endless, fruitless arguments about ugly guns. People are out of work, homes are being foreclosed, energy costs are skyrocketing, our enemies are perfecting Atomic bombs, and we are frozen on the size of an ammo magazine.
The gun – murder solution is simple. Our mental health medical treatment system is in a shambles, insane killers walk among us. And the intercity drug wars are slaughtering our people. These killers are a fraction of one percent of our population. Yet there is a huge effort to disarm tens of millions of good citizens, destroy their effective Constitutional rights. This nation debate is a ruse, to avoid responsibility by those leaders who are failing America.
Aikido was derived from an older style called Aiki-ju-jutsu by Ueshiba back in the 1920s and 30s. As an actual form of fighting or self defense it is not such a good choice.
As a distraction from the article’s essential issue, apparently discussing Aikido works quite well as a diversion. Having sparred against a 5th degree dan, I can testify that it works and results in exquisite pain, and blackness.
I just hope that this fate is not in store for our people. We face great dangers and must focus on vital issues, e.g. survival. Viewing a leader taking a sip of water, on 80 channels, for unending days, is an example of a diversion. Would that the talking heads experienced two seconds of Aikido; it would refocus their fruitless lives.
So his opponents — the GOP — forget about the big issues, concentrate on the insignificant, and end up in disarray, losing elections and turning on each other.
Pretty dumb, getting drawn down into Barry’s sucker games.
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
~Thomas Sowell
(I recently read, and agreed, that Obama knows only campaigning and nothing of governing. Campaigning is what he does between rounds of golf and vacationing.)
the “o” was never about governing …and neither is the senate or congress.
in the case of “o” it is about destroying the “American” way of life. he is all about marxism and top down control.
We ought to be screaming bloody murder about ABORTION!!
Should have thought of this 20 years, no, 30 years, no 50 years…ah forget it, tactics, semactics, the S already hit the F. With 11 million new voters from a socialist country, game over. Time to think further, like what happens when the 47% come looking for their handouts and gas is $12 a gallon.
Excellent column. A lot of dumb comments followed.
Great article, but with one flaw about the government using drones, artillery, aircraft, et cetera. Those that operate that hardware are US Citizens, friends, neighbors, relatives. They are also under oath to protect and obey the Constitution and not just the commander-in-chief. In addition, the US military has a law about denying unlawful orders. If Obama ordered such an arrangement of armament against citizens in this battle for constitutional rights against tyrants, he would have to have citizens who would carry such a horrific act out. GW Bush allowed Louisiana nat’l guard and law enforcement to confiscate firearms from lawful citizens – storming into their homes without warrant. (Hurricane Katrina). I pray that this will not go so far as to put citizens into a corner with no other option than to fight against tyranny. A militia can take on and win, but with great losses, depending upon strategy and leadership. Remember this from real-life circumstances in Afghan and Russian encounters. Every time a patrol was ambushed, the rebels gained ammunition and better firepower.
Do not underestimate the power of a citizen fighting a tyranny and for their freedom. OathKeepers was established to get on board and provide information to those who serve as sheriffs or combat arms military – reminding them of their oath and that they must NOT obey an unlawful order. Presently, their are firearms companies rebelling by refusing to sell firearms to the elite establishment who pass draconian laws against the constitution and lawful citizens.
“The whole gun-control debate seems to revolve around two questions — whether background checks should be universal and just how many bullets we should be allowed to have in a magazine. Excuse me while I yawn.”
Excuse me, but I’m afraid this is the type of incremental surrender to the framing and erosion of the Left which lurches on until we find ourselves in a situation like today under the monster Obama. Today we see the conservative movement in disarray and the Left consolidates its gains with stunning speed. We now find ourelves oppressed and eaten alive by millions of government paid union supporters/parasites of the Left. We are forced to penury under countless regulations and shakedown programs – programs which supposedly designed to rectify some “wrong”, but which not only fail to solve the original “problem” they were purportedly created, we see how grow and grow beyond any semblance of their original intent. Today we the FDA, the EPA, the DoE, with their own armed militia, we see them squandering millions on radical Leftists “sensitivity” indoctrination. It is all fraud. And under the squishy incrementalism of the Nixons and the Bushes, interspersed with major Leftists like Carter, Clinton, and the worst Obama, not one of these cancerous departments has ever been rolled back.
Such squishiness, such fake conservatism is the handmaiden of the vicious Left, and therefore, ultimately accomodates and allows the advance of socialism and the degradation of America.
Hey Roger, do you practice Aikido? May I ask where? I practice at New York Aikikai on 18th street in Manhattan.
Your title grabbed me since it linked two of my favorite things, aikido and defeating Obama. Unfortunately, as in any form of combat, victory and defeat do not go to the art practiced but to the individual practitoner, in consequence not of his intention but his execution.
So far Obama has beaten us repeatedly. He has even neutered Jewish “defenders” of Israel, not only egotists like Schumer, but also Dershowitz and many others of his ilk. Therefore we have to regard him as a worthy and formidable oponent, despite his hopelessly flawed governing style, the total botch he made of Obamacare, the failure of all his economic proposals, and the burden of his own narsicism.
With respect, Obama’s a minuscule, schoolyard bully. It’s only because of his Big Boy, thug, MSM enablers that he’s on top.
I’ve never felt “beaten” by Obama.
Only by the mass ignorance of our citizens, the influx of snake oil salesmanship into so many realms that used to function as gatekeepers, academia and media chief among them. (The contribution of the MSM to our decline is staggering.)
I’ll bet even the narcissist-in-chief is surprised at his “success”.
Supposedly, truth will out, but I am getting tired of waiting.
Mike;
I took Aikido in the late ’80′s early ’90′s. I liked it because traditional Aikido is completely defensive and has no offensive moves or attacks, as taught by the founder, Morehei Ueshiba.
I studied and searched many dojos to find the purest form of Aikido I could find, but all of them incorporated jiujitsu or karate to enhance the Aikido, and convert it to an offensive form of self defense to disable the attacker. All these instructors were intent on perfecting their own form of self defense for their own legacy.
If you really want to hurt somebody, it doesn’t take years of training to learn.
My most productive sessions were when I practiced with the largest opponent in the class.
It’s the mental discipline and fortitude of the Aikido philosophy I appreciate the most, and Republicans in Congress can certainly benefit with a healthy dose of these.
As far as ObamaCare, it has his autograph and nothing else. This Democrat coup d’état has been in their vault of subversive, Constitution elimination activities since before Clinton. And because it kneecaps the Constitution so effectively, is one reason Obama likes it so much.
Do you think “We the cowering spectators” have the will and the drive ?
Not to mention the cojones.
I had to stop reading this after a few paragraphs. Roger, I realize that there are lots of distractions from very important issues being tossed about by the liberal hordes, this is absolutely correct, but your attitude towards the 2nd amendment battles going on right now is terrifically disappointing. These are a bit more serious than you apparently think they are. Please do your homework here as you admirably have done elsewhere.
If you think that we are doomed because of the superior firepower potentially available to the gov’t and should consider armed conflict against a tyrannical gov’t a foregone loss, please look at what happened in Vietnam, our own nation at it’s birth and many other places throughout history.
I live in New York State and can tell you with some certainty that a major push in gun control is on both here and several other places in the USA. This is not simply a harmless distraction to be dismissed.
Bingo;
And they’re trying to shove it through a la ObamaCare. I can hear Pelosi saying “You don’t have to read it to like it”.
Any doubts as to how Roberts would rule on this one?
WAS this a great republic, or what?
— in today’s world of drones, lasers, communications satellites, and other high-tech weapons and apparatus we don’t even know about, all in the hands of the government —
Roger, you are exercising the same error in judgement that advanced countries have often made about technologically inferior opponents. Nothing has changed, only the technology. Also, advanced technology requires advanced support structures. Much of this is in the hands of civilians, who will be a wild card in such a conflict.
In addition, Americans are not only among the most inventive people the world has known, but many have access to technology in their basement and garage workshops far beyond most countries. While in most areas of the world the ability to fly an airplane is restricted to the military and a privileged few, America has thousands of private pilots, of which many have built their own airplanes. (to preempt the snark, I’m not suggesting that a guy in a Cessna is going to take on a jet.) What largely pre-industrial people in the Middle East have been able to do with asymmetric warfare is well documented. Now imagine what a nation of auto mechanics, machinists, computer geeks, pilots and aeronautical engineers would be capable of. Add to that mix the ferocity with which people have fought for their freedom over the ages. You may place your bet on Technology, but I will place my bet on America.
I don’t want to speak for Mr. Simon, but I would imagine it is just those technological devices many of us have in our basement he might agree we use in our defense, not old fashioned fire arms – should it come to that. And I agree with Simon that we should concentrate our efforts in the key areas. Accusing Dems of racism is spot on.
” . . . Tea Party and the Establishment wings going at each other like nitwit cousins in a hillbilly soap opera.” You slander the Tea Party. Do you not recall McCain and the rest of the GOP in a puddle singing soprano, giving the Obama gang the slush-fund, AKA the stimulus? The only real opposition to ObamaCare came from . . . the Tea Party! The rise of the Tea Party is as much a reaction to the ineptitude of the Establishment lack of “leadership,” as the criminality of the Democrats. The only backbone the GOP has is supplied by the TEA Party. How exactly is the GOP going to have a coherent strategy with, LAY-DOWN, ROLL-OVER, PLAY DEAD leading the way? The problem with the GOP Establishment is it is full of conservative Democrats! It is impossible to engage the enemy while the Leadership is running the other way!
Further, your characterization is Democrat libel in nature! You referred to the entirety of the GOP as, “nitwit cousins in a hillbilly soap opera.” Yet, you expect these nitwits to implement your plan! The Tea Party could implement the strategy the establishment leadership can not!
The basic point here is absolutely correct — O uses Alinsky’s rules for radicals to confuse and demoralize the Republicans, and the latter still don’t seem to get it, much less adopt a counterstrategy. They should ignore the distractions and strike over and over again at O’s huge vulnerabilities — growing government, failed policy, growing debt, weak foreign stance, etc. The fact that the Wizard of O got re-elected is a testament to his ability to smear (helped by the media cadres) and of the Republicans’ cluelessness about what they have to do to change the conversation.
“The Tea Party and the Establishment wings going at each other like nitwit cousins in a hillbilly soap opera.”
They have two different philosophies and will ultimately be two different parties.
The only issue is which one keeps the “Republican” monika.
The unfortunate truth is much of the “Establishment GOP” is indistinguishable from the Democratic Party. The Tea Partyers are the only ones pushing small government, establishment lip service not withstanding.
Roger,
Gun control IS a big deal. And if you haven’t studied 4th generational warfare, then you don’t get it. Your howitzer reference leads me to believe you’re ignorant about that topic. Am I wrong?
*4th Generation Warfare
Simon is making a huge mistake here. Simon seems to think that if Republicans cave on issues like gun control and illegal immigration then Democrats will suddenly be speechless, or welcome Republicans with open arms. Ronald Reagan tried that strategy in 1986 when he signed an amnesty bill, how did that work out Mr. Simon? It got Republicans ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Democrats went right on demagoguing Republicans as evil racists.
If Republicans cave on gun control and illegal immigration then Obama, or whoever pulls his strings will simply pick another distracting issue to keep from talking about the economy. Democrats have shown that they have plenty: free birth control, increased minimum wage, forced abortion coverage by religious institutions… And they will go right on demagoguing Republicans as greedy cold-hearted racists. Simon is playing a losing game.
Exactly! Republicans in the House should pass their own “immigration reform” plan that would include more border fence, e-verify and serious mechanisms to ensure laws on the books are enforced(like the Bank Secrecy Act which has personal liability for non-compliance). It should also include a small guest worker program that would require company sponsorship. Every time a Republican is asked about “immigration reform” they can point to that bill and explain how it accomplishes what Americans want the most in immigration reform. Instead they are just sitting on the goal crease waiting for democrats and the most liberal Republicans to craft a “bipartisan” bill that will leave the Republicans between a rock and a hard place.
I’m reasonably confident that I’m the only one here who has actually gone toe-to-toe professionally with Trotsky/Alinsky-school professional lefties. I’m not talking about poverty pimps, liberal Democrats, and the like; I’m talking about trained union reps, union organizer, community organizer/front group types.
I have the advantage of having had a flirtation with the left in my youth; I read “Rules for Radicals” when it first came out and even once had a copy of the Little Red Book; I know my commies pretty well. I also have the advantage of having a mentor in the working world who early on taught me that if you wanted to turn a radical into a conservative, all you had to do was give him a wife, kid, and mortgage. Truer words were never spoken – unless the radical was a public employee, an entertainer, or in one of the non-profit front groups.
I was your basic long-haired, dope smoking, FM-radio listening liberal Democrat in the early ’70s. I pretty naturally gravitated to organized labor and made it to just below the “made-man” level; union officer, sometimes paid, had a lot of perks, but not yet entitled to the sinecure and to have others kiss my ring. I’m smarter than the average bear and I figured out that this ride was ending and I was just high enough up to be accountable, so I left in ’80.
Fast forward after a time in the private sector: the oil price crash of the mid’80s sent me into the arms of government and I went to work for Alaska’s Division of Labor Relations where we were the State as an employer’s representatives in dealing with its unionized employees. In the early days of that gig, it was really business as usual even though we weren’t on good terms with the unions. You could spend the day calling each other names in an arbitration or across the bargaining table and go have a drink with the union rep and the arbitrator at the end of the day. Then it changed.
In ’88 the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) decertified the independent association that represented the majority of our employees. If you wondered what happed to the SDS, look no further than the leadership cadre of a big wall-to-wall public employee union. I’ll admit to being intimidated at first; Hell their membership was twice the population of my state. At first I just expected the union guys I’d always known but better educated and more skilled; you know, they were the big league.
What I found is that they were utterly incompetent at the nuts and bolts of collective bargaining. We beat them like rented mules in arbitration, before the labor board, in court, and before the Legislature. What I missed is that they were really good, and really dishonest, at politics and while I was kicking their ass in arbitration and negotiation, the were electing a governor who would promise them to rid them of turbulent clerks like me. And they did.
But I’m not without resources, and I had some smart people with similar experiences around me; we kinda’ figured it out. When I came back to the Executive Branch after my exile, the first thing I did was use my State credit card to buy a copy of “Rules for Radicals” for my staff and assign a trusted staff member to digest it into a playbook. A year and a bunch of fired union activists later, peace broke out. Six years later I retired as the only head of Alaska’s labor relations that kept all of the major unions quietly under contract for a whole gubernatorial term.
Whether you call it judo or rope a dope, you let them be themselves and punch themselves out. You have to know what kind of people you’re dealing with. These people aren’t the guys you could yell out all day and then go have a drink with; they hate you, I mean really hate you. Anybody who thinks these assholes are their friends across the aisle is an idiot.
Roger is right to an extent, you really have to pick your battles. You can NEVER do what they expect you to do. Everything about an Alinsky school tactic is to get otherwise sane people to do something stupid and preferably violent; that’s what they’re trying to get you to do, give them their Alinsky moment. Your job is to not give them their Alinsky moment and provoke them to do something stupid; that’s the essence of Roger’s judo analogy. You get them to be themselves and then you hurt them, hurt them badly, for being themselves.
Excellent explanation. The left is very dangerous, but also very afraid of daylight. I guess that gives a lot in common with the devil. If you give them what they want in just the right way, they will destroy themselves.
Roger’s final point is the type of a-symmetrical warfare conservatives aught to be conducting, but they are too afraid to try.
Roger is wrong about one thing though. Gun control is a pretty fundamental issue from a liberal philosophical perspective. The reason why liberals love gun control is because it makes citizens dependent on the government for personal protection. Its not about fighting the US government, its about living an independent life, verses a dependent one. That’s a pretty substantial issue to debate, even if the particulars are a little inane.
The same concept of dependence vs independence is true for school vouchers. People dislike losing school vouchers (when they get one) as much as they dislike losing their guns. Republicans generally like school vouchers but underestimate their political power.
“Roger’s final point is the type of a-symmetrical warfare conservatives aught to be conducting, but they are too afraid to try.”
Yes, but you have to have power to do it and at the National level we don’t have that power. One of two things will happen if any National Republican confronts the Obama Regime, they will either be ignored or vilified by the media. If ignored, nobody will know of the confrontation except those who get their news from FOX or from conservative sites on the internet. If they can vilify sucessfully, you’ll see the whole cycle of cable news, 6PM news, talk show humor, and next morning women’s shows and the whole damned world will know about it.
We need to attack them at the state level where we’ll be heard. Nobody in Texas or Alaska or Georgia outside Atlanta cares or even much knows what the NYT and WaPo think and they’ll pay more attention to what their Governor or a Legislative leader says than to what talking heads and comedians say. Nobody in the BoWash axis of evil is ever going to vote for a Republican, so why do we try to make news there? Nobody between Seattle and San Diego west of the mountains is ever going to vote for a Republican, so why do we care what they think? Republican Congressmen and women should make their news in their district and state where the local and regional media has to somewhat cover them and can’t be too harsh to them because they’ll lose advertising. The NYT, WaPo, and the New York and LA based media gain support by criticizing Republicans. The McClatchey papers in their San Francisco incarnation are virulently anti-Republican but the McClatchey-owned Anchorage Daily News has to be very circumspect in their criticisms of Republicans or they alienate the Republicans who buy their rag and, especially, the Republican business people who buy advertising.
There are all sorts of tools to help bring local media to heel starting with changing the law to enable posting public notices online rather than in the newspapers and advertising government jobs online rather than in the paper, both of which are a significant revenue source for newspapers. Stop government subscriptions to unfavorable media; you don’t want to think about how much governments spend on newspaper and magazine subscriptions and especially on “insider” special publications that exist only to support said insider. Frankly, anybody who is anybody and who needs to know already knows everything that’s in these publications but they just like to see their name in them and especially like for other people to see their name in them. Take a look at what non-profits your government is giving grants and contracts to and you’ll find that Republican governments are feeding the hands that bite them by doing business with Democrat front groups. You’ll get some lovely screams of pain and outrage when you do it, but the yelping dog is the one the rock hit, so its a good thing. I can go on; there’s a lot that can be done, but most Republicans would rather just practice for the next circular firing squad than to actually learn how to get a government to do things for them rather than to them.
Gass prices have skyrocketed in the past 3 weeks . People are in great fear of losing their jobs. The stresses of pay check to make check can take away hope in a brighter day Pill taking for sleep, take away anxiety and the normal winter bad weather and sickness family struck down with takes away from ability to do your job at maximum success with the dread of failure
Then gas goes up higher and more job layoff come People out of work too long lose their skills and in danger of becoming unemployable. More jobs ship to China.
And this is the best we have right now. What if this is the best we can get for years? Christian compassion go along way to get jobs for people who may become unemployable because they have been out of work to long. Christian socialism why give it a bad name when it was the atheist socialism that failed?
How could christian socialism type of thinking create millions of needed jobs?
If you dont organize then nobody will pander to you. And we can see that politicians pander to groups for votes. They dont pander to demonized non-organized groups.
Time for men and white-Europeans to organize.
The alternative is to stand around getting abused by every other group, punch drunk, unloved, and abandoned….as your group swirls the toilet bowl of Darwinian failure….unwilling to mobilize their tribe for their own well being, interests, and survival.
Community organizing is an art embodied in the strategy set forth by Alinski, Cloward and Piven just to name three. I think we’ve all figured out that Obama works for all three – there’s at least one of them is still alive. What I don’t understand is the fact that people treat Obama as everything BUT a malicious community organizer that peddles a domestic terrorism intended to stoke fear; cause chaos, fear and panic resulting in many people looking for answers from the Feral guvm’t. Wroting articles about freakin’ Aikido U Not?!!! BS. What we need is a dose of Krav Maga and a take no prisoners assault on every subversive leftist entity operating in the U.S.A. Our Islamist buddy Anchem (Andy) Choudary in England is encouraging all Mossies that want to partake of Jihad; to enroll in the unemployment lines so that the British government can fund their most worthy cause and also – and more important – so that they can overwhelm the system; which is in itself a jihad. Sound familiar? Yep! It’s the Islamic version of Cloward-Piven exactly like the one already operating in our PC political jihad arena here at home – example: Mjr.Hasan designated as perpetrating and incident of “workplace violence”; and after murdering and injuring our own military members is STILL receiving a salary – he’s STILL getting payed to wage jihad via “lawfare”. There are countless other examples in which this administration is complicit in aiding known enemies. We’re bound by our own rules while the administration makes up their own – such as use of domestic drones – over 30,000 of which could be in U.S. skies doing their thing from watching how many cows graze a federal grassland lease to watching how many potatoes an Idaho grower puts in a sack for market. The Government is WAY TOO BIG and like a fire; it’s making it’s own weather system, and it’s rapidly moving towards tornado time.
I got your “political aikido” right here, baby:
http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/item/the-post-in-which-i-piss-off-everybody
If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything! Can someone please list the values for which Republican politicians will risk everything?