From ACORN Grows a Big Nut
As Alinsky explained in his classic book, Rules for Radicals:
As an organizer I start from the world as it is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
Second, one has to pay attention to her nonsensical claim — which truly approaches the bizarre — that our current period “is going to dwarf the McCarthy era,” which as the Left regularly asserts, was a period of great repression by the government approaching a “reign of terror.” Lewis even asserts, referring to the internment of Japanese Americans by the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that the new repression will “dwarf” that internment. It will also, she says, dwarf that of the time of Jim Crow and segregation. She goes on to assure her audience that she is not engaging in “rhetoric or hyperbole,” but simply pointing to the evidence of what she says is already a “brutal and deceptive” repression.
What, one must ask, is Lewis talking about? Oh, she says she is talking about the Tea Party Movement — which to date, has held peaceful protests concentrating on the deficit and taxes, and has repressed no one at all. They are not in any position to do so, even if they wanted such an outcome. In fact, perhaps what bothers her is that this movement is precisely the kind of popular people’s movement on the streets that the Left is usually so fond of. Recall their slogan, “The streets belong to the people.” Maybe her problem is that now the people on them are the wrong ones.
Writing about her comments, Morgen Richmond makes this point:
While she certainly seems sincere, it is almost unimaginable that she truly believes the coming conservative re-alignment will lead to a new era of McCarthyism, segregation – and internment!? More than likely, considering the audience, she was purposefully exaggerating in order to build momentum towards her recruitment pitch. But in case there is any doubt, I think I can safely speak for most conservatives in saying that our only interest is in achieving (overwhelming) victory at the ballot box, and then beginning to get the growth of Big Government and federal spending under control.
Richmond may be right, but I think his take on her words comes from a lack of familiarity with how the old Left argues and thinks. Despite the fact that the Obama administration controls both houses of Congress and the Executive Branch, and the President will soon choose another nominee for the Supreme Court (who will probably get the post) ,the Left always acts as if it is in danger of imminent fascist repression — since the capitalist power base is still intact and the socialist revolution has not yet taken place. Until then, any victories no matter how solid are seen as transitory. It is not, as Richmond thinks, simply because Lewis seems to have “a persecution complex,” given the self-imposed setbacks ACORN has suffered in the past few months.
Most important is another point Richmond makes: that ACORN has been until recently viewed as a “fairly mainstream, non-profit organization,” not as a radical or revolutionary socialist group. Indeed, it has received not only government funds through contracts, but major grants from big corporations such as Bank of America, Citbank and JP Morgan-Chase. Could Lenin’s insight into the capitalist mind apply here when he quipped that the Bolsheviks would “sell them the rope with which we will hang them”?
Then, Lewis raises the bogeyman of racism. Again, no matter that a popular African-American political figure is president of the United States. The Tea Party movement proves that the racists are on the march. Her goal, however, is an America filled “with more black people than white people,” which will then have the majority necessary to lead the country to real socialism. This, of course, is a new version of the 60’s theory of the black underclass as the new proletariat that would fulfill Marx’s prophecy of a class that would be the agent of change for revolution.
As Lewis put it:
The future of our country is people of color. And how that’s going to change our psyche and our economics, this is why folks are grabbing so hard to change the economic paradigm, because we gettin’ ready to have a majority country of people of color. And the fear of a black planet is real.
What has to be done, she admonishes, is for the young socialists to join the Hispanics and blacks together in a new coalition for socialism. She ends her remarks with: “That will be the battle for the kind of government that we have. That will be an economic battle of epic proportions. Immigration, self-sufficiency, and the people united.”
She left off the old refrain “will never be defeated.” Perhaps that is because, the way things are moving, she is afraid her hoped-for agenda will be.
Barack with all of his innate and blatantly embarrassing well-papered-over flaws was the perfect trojan horse for tyrannical socialism.
As more and more and more ad nauseum comes to light about Barack, this is not so much a reflection on the man himself but the people who propped him up in the first place. Barack can be a race-card weilding shield as well as a fall-guy of sorts.
ACORN will be back stronger and bigger than ever. TRUST.
Bertha Lewis is not a very bright woman—and that’s being kind. The odds are that Wade Rathke remains the de facto leader of the organization. Lewis is of value not only because she a both female and black, but will also do what is demanded of her. This is a woman who literally lacks the ability to even be a quality personal secretary or substitute kindergarten teacher. And no, I do not think I am exaggerating. Rathke would not feel comfortable picking someone who might truly remove him entirely from the picture.
The Tea Party people are so much more intelligent than their foes. It is not even close. They are similar to Kobe Bryant competing against second-string high school basketball players. Many Americans are finally realizing that most leftists are intellectually second rate individuals. It is time to take back America from these clowns.
David, one thing nobody dares touch on is that Africans were ‘bought/brought’ from the jungle ‘untamed’ and sold by their own ‘bros’ from warring tribes. White men supposedly ‘tamed’ these primitive peoples as ‘slaves’ rather than truly civilizing them as HUMAN BEINGS worthy of being treated as such. It was too easy to look at a primitive human still living ‘primitively’ in ‘supposed modern times’ as ‘sub-human’ by people who by luck, choice, reason, genetics, geography, war-winnings, apathy, cruelty, brutality, brilliance, intelligence and ultimately .i.q.
Are all men created equal? No. Let’s stop trying to equalize stupidity and get back to rewarding real intelligence and creativity.
There is plenty of stupid to go around genetically.
Unfortch? Dot-Dot-Dot…
Stats say:http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/7669
The rhetoric of the left seems to be getting desperate of late. It must be dawning on Obama that November is going to be a blow-out.When in doubt go hard left.
The election of Obama was supposed to bring about a new age of racial harmony.
How’s that working out for all you dolts who voted for him?
There were many of us who warned that Barack Obama was going to seriously harm race relations. I carefully chose my words when saying that he would set back racial progress in the United States by perhaps twenty years. In no way, shape, or form, was I engaging in hyperbole. It was so obvious that Obama is existentially hostile towards what he perceives as white society. This is a man, it must not be forgotten, who crapped all over his own grandmother. His officially released writings ooze with racial animosity. Obama is ill educated and has never really thought these matters out in a thorough manner. His not likely to change anytime in the near future! At best, he can be marginalized.
White leftists like Wade Rathke and Bill Ayers instinctively gravitate toward race carding. This tactic has resulted in providing them with significant power—and fairly large bank accounts. Everyone should think about this for a while: where would the Democrats be today without their constant use of the race card? Would they even be a major party?
I wonder what type of “a majority country of people of color” she has in mind? Zimbabwe, South Africa, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan, Mexico? You know, all those fabulously successful majority countries of people of color. I wonder how long a country with a 70% illegitimacy rate will survive? What do you think the murder rate will be in a “majority country of people of color?”
In all seriousness, Bertha Lewis is a stone cold racist pig.
I never went off the deep end politically and even when I actually considered myself a moderate leftist one of the reasons why I didn’t was that I read “Rules For Radicals:” and other work by Alinsky. Even in my younger and more foolish days I remember being struck by the idea that people who followed his suggested path to power once in would not be the sort of people who supported civil liberties for everyone or favored an ordered process of democratic government. It also struck me that the people I saw who were Alinsky acolytes did not seem to be the sort of people who would favor democracy as I understood it.
By the way, David, I have spent some time on and off substitute teaching. Although my experience has been mostly secondary, I have done a little kindergarten substitute teaching. I can assure you that, while like most things it can be done, sort of, by the unintelligent, to do it reasonably well does require a certain amount of intelligence.
Besides, I wonder if Lewis actually means what she says or is merely engaging in what Orwell called “duckspeak,” making sounds to show her orthodoxy.
I concede that in a fair world a substitute kindergarten teacher is a demanding job requiring significant skills—but I am talking about the real world. The credentialing of today’s teachers is often a joke. The majority of those in the profession are mediocre to say the last. I strongly suspect that this is especially true in the lower grades where public school teachers often act as nothing more than glorified babysitters. It is my understanding that you live in the Detroit area. If so, you should know that I am not exaggerating. School board President Otis Mathis cannot even write at an eighth grade level. You probably represent the top one percent of all their substitute teachers.
What I don’t understand is that the money movers in the progressive movement are white, upper class, rich effete-the very people Obingo, Lewis, Rev.(?) Wright and the whole progressive movement hate. Yet the white progressives despite the evidence that they are held in disdain if not outright hatred, and that their heads will be on the chopping block, still support the cause. Do they hate their ethnicity and race so much that they help to choose the manner in which they will die? Lewis’ own words: “because we gettin’ ready to have a majority country of people of color.”
How do white progressives rationalize that conundrum? Do the wealthy white progressives think that by ingratiating themselves to the “people of color” movement that they are buying themselves eternal gratitude and safety?
Your question is especially pertinent in light of the other clip of Bertha Lewis’ rant I posted on YouTube. Get a load of this:
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=14164
As Ron suggested I supposed I have been a little sheltered (from leftist radicalism at least) but I think this is one of the most overtly racist public speeches I have ever heard. But I’m glad she was caught on tape talking about this because there is no doubt that this is the real progressive (socialist) agenda.
Jews and Leftists whites (especially white women) are so caught up in ‘social justice’ they blindly refuse to see that they are being targeted, profiled and ‘hated’ simply because of their skin-tone.
How much power do certain minorities ‘need/require’ before we can finally call THEM racists?
What I notice most through the actions and beliefs of these disgustingly averse-to-the-liberty-that-built-America types of people is the alignment and fulmination of Biblical prophecy. Indeed, the anti-christ will destroy many with peace. (Daniel 8:25) It makes me think that the top priority is really that of making your life right with God. And who knows, maybe in that process you get the temporary political victory after all: and the end was not yet.
As I’m sure others have seen the video, Obama released his ‘Manifesto’ recently as well.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Obama_seeks_to_reconnectyoung_people_AfricanAmerins_Latinos_and_women_for_2010.html?showall
I can’t comprehend, fathom how a Bertha Lewis, Luis Gutierrez, Al Sharpton, Nancy Pelosi/ Mary Landrieu/ Carol Browner, Barack Obama and the like attain, let alone keep and build upon ANY kind of respect, admiration or attention.
These are but a few of the utmost divisive people of their race/ sex who hold any kind of clout in the West I’ve seen, experienced in my ten or so years following politics.
I don’t think bertie is smart enough to really even understand what she is saying. IHer spewing sounds to her like about what she thinks she “should be saying”. As many are stating here, the lefties are proving to be devious and clever, but not very intelligent.
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She’s intelligent enough to get Crain’s to call her a respected business woman. I would call her speech purposefully incendiary. Free speech is a wonderful thing. It allows us to judge whether people are dangerous when they tell us they are dangerous.
Pitting one group of people against another seems to be a typical tactic of the extreme left and President Obama. Humorous cartoon dealing with Obama’s recent comments about rallying his minorities at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/politics/
David,
I said the same thing, only I said 40 years instead of your twenty. And I was called “racist” for saying as much.
My conclusions were based that I knew if elected, Obama would push an agenda to “equalize” outcomes – it’s his nature. When good people revolted against Obama’s idea of fairness by fiat and started to say as much, I knew it would be classified as racism because it would be perceived as the tacit hatred of black America by most whites. And it didn’t take three months for charges of bigotry to be heard from the media. They too are complicit in creating the imminent racial strife.
Looking back, there was nothing actually prophetic about our call that Obama wasn’t going to prove to be that post racial President he promised. It was the inevitable path. One large demographic I believe actually had moved beyond race, and for the most part made the attempt to judge by the content of the character; one smaller but still large contingent of America’s demographic for the most part has not.
If pointing out the obvious makes me a racist, so be it. But I can guarantee as record here on PJM, that if by chance Obama loses in 2012, it will get very ugly.
“It will get very ugly”
So many signs:
Post-Barackalyptic Wasteland
Lefties are such clean, decent, property respectin’, law abidin’, gentle, fair, peaceful, non-violent people!
/sarc
From ACORN Grows a Big Nut
Well, it’s certainly difficult (ok, impossible
) to dispute the accuracy of that statement.
The profoundly absolute ignorance of many on the Left and the seeming lack of awareness with which they make the most asinine claims imaginable…make you fear for the survival of intelligent life on the planet.
Ignorant, minority, leftist power– whitey sucks but gimme my redistribution, now! (For further details, see Zimbabwe.)
See the movie ‘White Man’s Burden’ with
John Travolta and Harry Belafonte for a
glimpse of the future Lewis wishes to see.
That future is, and will remain, a fantasy,
because knowledge will forever rule ignorance.
Acorn has one thing right: The economic end-game is
upon us, and when the Govt. money goes away,the former
recipients thereof will be ready to revolt, guided
by Acorn, which will use naive, idealistic, children
such as the Young Democratic Socialists for brains,
and the Underclass for muscle, in an attempt to set up
a Tyranny of the Black Majority; The Browns are useful
fellow travelers, but will end up being purged for
acting white.
Again, it will not work, but there will be McCarthyism,
Internment, and Segregation, first by the Left, and
then by the Right; The only way to win that game
is not to play.
You say I am mad, misguided, or merely exaggerating ?
The political power tools mentioned above are in daily
use; It is a matter of opinion how forcefully they have to be used to warrant the extreme labels.
An example from a dystopian future:
The Congressional Black Caucus (which is segregated)
announces plans to use the Patriot Act to place in
indefinite detainment (Internment Camp) anyone who
cannot answer ‘No’ to the following question:
‘Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of
any of the Tea Party groups responsible for the
recent acts of civil disobedience ?’ (McCarthyism)
“Could Lenin’s insight into the capitalist mind apply here when he quipped that the Bolsheviks would “sell them the rope with which we will hang them”?”
You meant capitalists?
ACORN was caught with its knickers down largely through the efforts of James and Hannah traveling about the country and exposing the multitude of ACORN offices & employees eager to assist their prostitution enterprise, including, but not limited to, importation of underage girls from central America.
Was Bertha embarrassed ?
Hell, no, she revedd up the spin machine & commenced to babble about the land. ACORN lost its funding & Bertha went underground for awhile. She’s baaaccck.
If you listen to Obama’s FCC guy, Mark Lloyd (the guy who can’t praise Oogoe Chavez enough) and other Obamatrons about the land like Andy Stern & Van Jones, having and holding “da powah” is a very big deal with all these people.
Mark Lloyd has gone as far as to state that, well, youse guys is gonna hafta step aside so we’s guys can own the place.
This is their concept of “governing”.
No sh!t, sherlock.
It’s a pretty good bet that any organization that increases political participation by underclass people will be hated and feared by you in the anti-democratic (small d) right. Legally registering voters was ACORN’s great sin, was it not? That was the reason why you folks who ceaselessly bleat about the Constitution cheerfully supported a Bill of Attainder against them. The funny thing is that your narrative requires you to think that your opponents, Obama and the Democrats, are marching to the orders of Saul Alinsky as if that guy’s writings were the secret key to what’s going on. It is a characteristic of highly ideological groups—-Marxists, Lyndon Larouche devotees, John Birchers, Objectivists, Theocrats, etc.–to understand their enemies as negative images of themselves, but it is only cults that can be simply explained in terms of some manifesto or other. Back when I was a kid, you’d still encounter old Communists who thought that the ideas of the pragmatist Dewey explained American mainstream opinion. Now it’s Alinsky of all people. Well, I guess you shouldn’t choose to be a goofy rightwinger if you’re afraid of being ridiculous.
JH said “Legally registering voters was ACORN’s great sin, was it not?”
You misspoke Jim, may I call you Jim?, ACORN was vilified because they ILLEGALLY registered voters. Also, they were caught red-handed, promoting illegal prostitution and income tax evasion. In a small way, ACORN can also be shown to be partly responsible for the current housing bubble because of their pushing home loans for people who had no verifiable income and no way to pay their mortgages. They are liars and cheats and anyone who espouses their creed can also be considered a liar and cheat.
Don’t you just love the paranoia expressed by members of the left.
Just like they believe that anyone who opposes Obama is a racist, they believe that anyone who says they are working on behalf of the poor, actually are.
Jim, like all liberals, is not concerned with the allegations of helping people break the law. He doesn’t care that ACORN has been caught registering people who don’t exist and helping others break election laws.
All he cares about is the fact that they are pushing unworkable left wing projects. Therefore they must be protected at all costs. Even if you have to lie to do it.
My job has taken me into mental wards where the typical patient has a greater grip on reality than Bertha Lewis.
I’m no psychiatrist, but I would think that the journalist who really is one (Krauthammer) would call her “certifiable.”
Legally registering voters was ACORN’s great sin, was it not?
ACORN employees themselves, hired to register voters, said they were even instructed to sign up people who were already registered.
Not to mention Goldfish and dead people making it onto the rolls.
A big democrat push is currently afoot to remove the restriction on voting by the incarcerated/convicted felons.
If democrats have their way, people in the country illegally will be voting as well.
Barry, the Great Uniter, has recently been pushing for hispanics, blacks, women, et al and etc. to unite to defeat the rest of America.
Your notion of an “underclass” people is right up Barack’s alley of engendering identity politics & class warfare.
Hey, if all that fits your version of “justice”, go for it.
What? Are you saying the great socialist FDR imprisoned Japanese Americans? Wow.
Of course his replacement, Truman, deported illegal Mexicans who threatened avialability of jobs for returning US soldiers. Millions of illegals.
So did Herbert Hoover.
Most recently, beginning in 1954, the very popular and practical President Dwight Eisenhower successfully deported millions of illegal alien Mexican nationals in a program called “Operation Wetback”, which lasted two years. Again, this was done to make more jobs available for World War II and Korean War veterans.
I say warm up the buses, boys. God bless Arizona.
Power on the left is based on color at this point.
What concerns me is I first heard about the recent stupidity of Bertha on FOX..beck precisely. The story is no where else. Yes, I think it is a “story” to be spread around.
Obama makes a purely racists speech encouraging the blacks, latinos, and…women…to vote come November and support what they (left) are doing.
If a conservative had gotten up and said, “I need to have all anglo’s, Christians, blue eyed people, and women..get out and vote”, that person would have been stomped into the ground by the left media.
Look at Franklin Graham, he said it is wrong how Islam treats it’s women and children…he was “disinvited” to prayer day for these words of truth, because a couple of Muslims didn’t like them…
We are now in the “we fear Muslims” business…look at South Park!! wieners.
No body calls Obama and his followers on their words…just smile and wave boys, just smile and wave.
The whole darned this is disgusting , degrading and Obamaites need to be replaced. Bertha is fanning a tragedy just waiting to happen.
White is also a color. I’m don’t personally believe that very many of the leaders of the Republican party are racists, at least not sincere racists; but they spend so much time winking at swing constituencies who are terrified of people of color that they have developed a persistent tic. It’s a little late to get excited about the fact that politicians appeal to their base. You guys just get upset when Democrats do it because you really, really don’t think that black and brown people have the same claim on political power that you do.
“You guys just get upset when Democrats do it because you really, really don’t think that black and brown people have the same claim on political power that you do”"
FYI…….I’ m a “brown people”..
I think politicians , esp left, look down on minorities. They show it in their simplistic attitude of thinking we’re all stupid and on the welfare dole, and will follow their every whim…”just promise ‘em somethin’ free Barry!!”. BULL!~!
Jim: Your reply was so shallow that an equally shallow, dull, vapid, vacuous, and purely regurgitative response is necessary.
Azzhole!
Ah yes, the old anyone who disagrees with me is a racist brand of logic.
It really does appear that smears and insults are the only arrows left to the left.
Is that why you link to Media Matters and Real Climate on your blog? Your personal devoutness to objectivity, fairness and rational thought?
Reading your comment was the same feeling I get when finding a hair on my hamburger after I’ve taken a few bites.
Putting aside snark for a second, I can understand why you’d be unhappy about Media Matters since that’s a partisan political outfit; but it still gets me that right wingers really, really think that the natural sciences are some sort of ideological plot. I know you do, but it still surprises me.
Jim,
Your second criticism makes less sense than your first. But at least I didn’t get the same nauseous feeling after reading it. If I ‘really, really’ thought biology and chemistry idealogical plots, why did I receive degrees in both?
I think you’re confused (about a lot of things).
The complaint one hears from right wingers about the climatologists is that their belief in AGW is really a way of promoting socialism or one-world government. There are certainly denialists whose motives are not so obviously ideological (or financial) just as there were scientists who refused to believe that cigarettes caused cancer or HIV caused AIDS; but in the absence of some extra-scientific pressure, the most basic arguments about climate would have been over quite a while ago. There were such arguments, you know. It was fought out in journals like SCIENCE and Nature; and nobody reading those papers would conclude that opposing voices were shushed. For the most part, they were simply convinced. And papers that dispute elements of the most recent thinking are published almost every week. I know. I read ‘em. If these second thoughts and refinements haven’t upset the basic conclusions the most obvious explanation is simply that, well, it’s getting warmer just as well over a hundred years ago the Swede Svante Arrhenius predicted it would, though, ironically, he was happy about the prospect of milder winters in Scandinavia.
The tendency to see plots everywhere is hardly a monopoly of the right, and its political advantages are obvious. People don’t know much about climatology, but everybody can easily comprehend a story about an evil conspiracy of elitists. Now it is perfectly true that people with PhDs tend to be more liberal than others, just as the more accomplished you are as a biologist, the more likely you are to be an atheist. The science isn’t about politics or theology, however.
Jim: Besides being a total azzhole, you bloviate too much.
“There were such arguments, you know. It was fought out in journals like SCIENCE and Nature; and nobody reading those papers would conclude that opposing voices were shushed.”
This statement among others you spewed to us in your last post, is so full of mendacity that to refute it is to give it legitimacy.
Please go play with the kids at Kos, Huff or CAP. This is for adults where constructive and honest debate is encouraged.
Jim,
Oh baloney. Where do you guys dredge up this crap? I suspect than in the circle of PHD “experts” you run, this might be a common phenomenon, but it’s hardly the rule and most often the lefty experts only expertise is self described.
This is probably from the same set of PHDs and “experts” that study Nostradamus, Mayan calendars, the Alar scare, kill a million people a year from malaria when we could have controlled it with DDT, predict the hurricanes, tied autism to vaccinations, etc…now they’ve switched over to climate Armageddon.
Come on Jim. That’s three comments in a row that appear parody. Why don’t you admit you’re a hard core lefty and leave it that. Show the same set Big Bertha does. She’s not afraid of nominating herself a disciple of Marx.
Jim old bean, you really do need to read the words of those who are pushing the global warming myth.
There the ones who are saying that they want to promote a one world govt and eliminate industrial society.
There is nothing political about natural science.
On the other hand, there is no science at real science.
Like all liberals, Jim defines truth as being what he wants to hear.
“finding a hair on my hamburger”
Please say it wasn’t a short-n-curly!
Good grief. The ideological tendencies of people of various levels of education are not exactly a military secret. You can read about ‘em in the statistical appendices of the Bell Curve for Christsake. The statistical correlation of prominence in the biology field with disbelief is also well known. I’m not claiming that smart guys don’t believe in God, therefore there is no God. Indeed, I was making the point that, quote, “the science isn’t about politics or theology.” I was simply addressing one reason why it might be plausible to imagine (erroneously) that some sort of leftist conspiracy were at work among climate scientists. You’re the guy who mentioned his degrees in biology and chemistry as if that were an argument for something.
You know nothing about my actual politics. The assumption that I’m a hard core lefty (whatever that is) is merely more evidence that everybody who disagree with you will be demonized as if there weren’t a range of opinions in the world. Even Eisenhower Republicans are radicals in these parts.
…that some sort of leftist conspiracy were at work among climate scientists.
Well, Jim, most of the evidence of the past 6 months or so would support that supposition. My own conspiratorial leanings go towards things like making egregious profits off of “carbon credit” schemes, see Al Gore as the poster child.
Two of the main promulgators of “that which must be believed by every agendist on the planet looking to use climate change for ideological (not to mention financial) gain”, Phil Jones & Michael Mann, have had their shorts twisted into a knot in recent months.
Phil has acknowledged that the thesis of human caused warming is far from “settled” science.
Mike “hide the decline” Mann is threatening a lawsuit
I know you’re still a True Believer, Jim, despite any issues or facts to the contrary.
That’s just how liberals are.
As usual, Jim takes a small fact, and stretches it beyond all recognition.
Yes, people with PHD’s tend to be more liberal than average, but there are two problems with Jim’s pathetic attempt to prove that education makes one more liberal.
1) Up to the point of PHD’s, those with more education become more conservative.
2) Not all PHD’s are more liberal than the population as a whole. PHD’s in hard sciences tend to continue the established trend of becoming more conservative with more education. It’s the liberal arts PHD’s who distort this trend.
Jimbo,
You know nothing about my actual politics.
This from a man who penned this at his own blog?
The Means of Propaganda
Thoughtful conservatives are self-consciously duplicitous. From their perspective lying is not only permissible, it’s obligatory; and theoreticians such as Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and Alan Bloom have developed an elaborate justification for this position. These ideas have long been in public circulation and yet remain politically invisible. Journalists can’t read anything not printed in block letters in Crayola, and the people at large don’t read much of anything. Resorting to serious arguments is like spelling out the words in front of the children. In any event, overt censorship would be counterproductive since the Guardians themselves need reliable sources of information and analysis. Besides, without the carping liberals, they might get confused and forget that they’re lying. That’s a perpetual danger.
Speaking of duplicitous James, burned by your own words. A hack by any name.
Thanks for quoting me. Why don’t you quote some more!
No need, the quote given is more than enough to reveal you as someone who hates, rather than thinks.
Couldn’t remember her name. “you know, – “the bowel movement woman” Oh yeah! I remember her.
Her friends and family should be proud of her. She certainly made a name for herself in life, – “The Bowel Movement Woman”.
Why don’t you quote some more!
Okay
“I don’t believe in blaming the tyrants for tyranny—not because I want to let the tyrants off the hook, but because the usual demonization of the Stalin’s (sic) and Hitler’s (sic) gives them too much credit as if a single person could create an entire world of malevolence by themselves.”
Yes, they can, sweet pea.
And the Obama’s (sic), too.
After all, tyrants can’t create an entire world of malevolence by themselves. And, of course, comparing Obama to Hitler or Stalin is simply stupid.
After all, tyrants can’t create an entire world of malevolence by themselves.
Their modus operandi is always the same, prepare the ground carefully, intimidation of any and all who would oppose the regime and destruction of free speech are the usual early moves.
The wholesale slaughter of human beings comes later.
The Obama administration is duly frustrated, just listen, that it can’t stop dissent and criticism.
There are less obvious ways of obliterating a people than simply slaughtering them.
that our current period “is going to dwarf the McCarthy era,” which as the Left regularly asserts, was a period of great repression by the government approaching a “reign of terror.” Lewis even asserts, referring to the internment of Japanese Americans by the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that the new repression will “dwarf” that internment. It will also, she says, dwarf that of the time of Jim Crow and segregation.
I think we might be missing that she is talking about what she wants to happen to people of “non color”. Just sayin.
Q. What’s that pile of minced meat doing on the floor there?
A. Oh that’s just what’s left of Jim Harrison, libtroll extraordinaire.
Her statements only prove that ACORN and similar organizations, and one can presume those in power who support and fund them, have already began to wage an aggressive war on the American people and liberty, an undeclared, fabian socialist “cold war”, mixed with national socialistic ethnic chauvinism.
If she thinks that there is going to be some kind of racial civil war, she may be right, but it will be her mechista and proletarian friends who start it.
Gotta love the left, they plan to take the most incompetent members of society and form them into the forces for evil or is that socialism? hispanics and blacks, show me a functioning society run by these folks, most are extremely socialist if hispanic, and if black, a murderous tyranny filled with hate and murders of the most brutal nature, sounds like a great basis to form the marxist dream, as marxist are well known for their brutally murderous nature.
On the other hand, trying to convert anyone with a grain of common sense would probably be beyond their ability.
The Left, complete fools or Marxists ??
Fundamental point – Every time Media, ANYONE, espouses the evil of the Nazi regime or fascism, communism should be in that same statement, no, the same breath. Isn’t that what this is about? Marxism, Maoism, Fascism, all the same points of the compass.
And that’s not happening. Why? Because some ideologues have devoted their lives to continuing the drive to control..YOU.
Pretty basic I think. This administration will not rest until they control the car you drive, the food you eat, the exercise you accomplish, and the way you teach your family.
1984 only 2 1/2 decades late.