By piggybacking an already-in-place infrastructure (say, the innate, normal frustration with the political process) the right wing has once again impressed itself as the preeminent virus of all angry ideologies: by warping people's essential decency with relentless doses of fear and misdirection they are using the amped up/trumped up mob to further their own agenda:
Power.
That's it, leute! How do I know? Well, how do I know that cow shit would stain my teeth and chin even without sitting down to a steaming portion of it and shoveling sporkful after sporkful into my mouth?
Having lost and lost big (that Black Man in their White House, for glaring instance), the rippling vibrations from highly compressed vitriol has caused their already spider-veined facades to calve in large hunks, falling to the ground and revealing the seething outrage beneath.
And the idea of building anything other than plaque around a heart is anathema to this parasitical creature, which would prefer to watch the masses labor under its venal lash while they sit back and weave their tales of terror and sip their crude (shades of the golden days before the Northern invasion).
Indeed, they've piggybacked America's innate tribal instincts to fear, fight or flee, setting a match to any and all progress borne from the eloquent and herculean efforts made by the Founders to raise humanity from the brutality which too often marked its existence.
They piggyback America's innate puritanism and demonize sexuality.
They piggyback America's innate xenophobia and pillory foreigners.
They piggyback America's innate patriotism and eroticize war.
They piggyback America's ubiquitous media infrastructure and highjack information.
They are, to retool an epithet made famous by that most unlikely yet utterly courageous hero of freedom Howard Stern, a Piggyback Virus.
And yet, in spite of or directly because of the glaring presence of that awful, flaring virus, counteraction is spurred: in expanding consciousnesses all over the country and the world, there is a defense being formulated. People are fighting back against the cant and rhetoric, armed with facts and irrefutable testimony, showing that a profit can be made just as easily from truth as with terror.
And viruses can be cured.
Now that's health care, for you.
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"Thank goodness there are people like me who are here to counter your selfish and destructive words and accusations. We remind society of the fact that the MAJORITY are not hateful and ignorant...who DESPISE oppression and the deprivation of dignity that is due ALL."
and
"Thank goodness there ARE people like me to remind society that the majority are truly happy and proud to have a person of color in the White House ...that we have moved that much farther away from the sickness and evil of this country's past... which really wasn't that long ago."
What is so wrong with these statements???
Is it wrong to acknowledge that I (and others) are doing something good? That I appreciate what myself and others do?
Or, is it wrong that I am doing something good??
Is it wrong to point out the good??
Or, is it wrong to state that the majority of society is NOT racist?? Is that NOT good???
What.. WHAT did I do wrong that would make you focus on this instead of the TRUTH that these statements project???
a common problem of right wing conservatives.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#36608157
You said: "Your party condones them by their silence So.....you shall reap what you sow. i promise you that.
yep.. leave it to the liberals to falsely accuse others and then blame THEM for the repercussions. Classic, typical..etc etc... Excuse me but YOU are doing the "sowing" and society will be the "reapers"... and the consequences are the stagnation of the abolishment of racism. The left, with your ignorant insistence of focusing on the minority, are keeping racism "fresh" and "alive" in this country.
Thank goodness there are people like me who are here to counter your selfish and destructive words and accusations. We remind society of the fact that the MAJORITY are not hateful and ignorant...who DESPISE oppression and the deprivation of dignity that is due ALL.
Thank goodness there ARE people like me to remind society that the majority are truly happy and proud to have a person of color in the White House ...that we have moved that much farther away from the sickness and evil of this country's past... which really wasn't that long ago.
And I used the word "selfish" because clearly the left will do anything to "win". Just like with the issue of abortion... collateral damage is irrelevant, it is of no concern... it's all about winning.
"The left, with your ignorant insistence of focusing on the minority, are keeping racism "fresh" and "alive" in this country."
CNN Opinion Research Poll on Demographics of Tea Party
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/17/rel4b.pdf
Tea Party Advocates Who Scorn Socialism Want a Government Job
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLBZwxqgYgwI
University of Washington 2010 Multi-state Survey on Race & Politics
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/mssrp_table.pdf
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/teaparty_table.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo
This last is truly telling: Tea Party Convention Organizer support Tancredo
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/05/tea.party.convention/index.html
The MINORITY? Really Kams?
This is sexist. Racism is wrong but sexism is ok?
I'm not a "sir". I am a female who is sick of the blatant hypocrisy ,dishonesty, and ignorance of the left.
And did you ever consider that the Republicans didn't "work" with Obama because they didn't agree with his proposed solutions??? Believe it or not.. that really is a legitimate possibility! Particularly because the two sides have DIFFERENT POLITICAL VIEWS.
"In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States"
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/
You can find all the faults of Fox News that you want... MSNBC will have just as many biased faults. MSNBC is NO different. Which SHOULD, in your minds, make the playing field equal, but in reality it still isn't.. CNN is liberaly biased as are just about every other news organization in this country.. and yet the Left STILL are running to government to make things "fair"?? by forcing the Right to give equal time on our own shows?? It's absurd.
Have you been taking Karl Rove projection lessons?
BTW: I do not consider myself a "liberal." I am a moderate.
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1) Obama was a candidate for President while Bush was in the White House. Don't you think that he was investigated thoroughly by the State Department under Bush? If there were any questions about his citizenship, don't you think THEY would have uncovered it?
Here is a link to proof of his citizenship, although I doubt you'll believe it:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
2) We survived eight years of Bush.
Presidential elections roll around every four years. If you don't like who is in office, vote for someone else. And as far as your party being in the majority, the decisive win of Barack Obama in 2008 proves otherwise.
3) Bush added more to the national debt in eight years than any other president in history COMBINED. The first bank bail out happened on his watch. Two wars were waged, one with false intel. Wealthy tax cuts for the top two percent earners cost the tax payers TRILLIONS of dollars. Unwarranted wiretapping, rebranding of torture and "the Patriotic Act" (giving the President unprecedented power) happened in the Bush administration. Where were all you "patriots' screaming about 'socialism' when all this was happening?
Obama is trying to fix what was broken when he came into office.
4) "True freedom" is accepting election results without seeming to become unhinged about it. And getting a chance to cast your vote in the next election to allow your voice to be heard again.
Can you explain to me how this makes Obama a better President?
You have an interesting concept of True Freedom. Accepting elections is not a freedom, it's an
inconvenience. Expressing disenchantment, exposing incompetence, and shouting it as vociferously as a citizen chooses is, indeed True Freedom. It's our most important freedom,
it's called the Freedom of Speech, which apparently is just a joke to modern liberals, once the
most dynamic defenders of this right. Shame, really.
Stupid speech might ought be unlawful?
Freedom to speak lies ought be unlawful?
But who would decide?
It appears to me that very few debates are argued intellectually. One side expresses thoughtful insight while the other only spews hate and ignorance.
Only perspective finds which side one champions....
Now we ALL have an obligation to call out the cretins, look them straight on in the snake eyes, and call 'em LIARS AND HYPOCRITES!! It's way past time to park this so called "high road" on the fence, get down in the trenches and fight for change with our Pres. Obama. It's been a really reallly really long time since we've had a POTUS to actually work FOR the people in this country, instead of AGAINST us.
>Oh, here’s one. Sir Steven asserts that the amped up right wing anger is centered around Barack >Obama, a Black Man, being president. No, it is not. It is based on ideology. If Mr. Obama were a free >market-promoting adherent to the US Constitution, he would be beloved. Since he’s a big >government, socialistic authoritarian, well, not so much. “Progressives” couldn’t be further out there
>– and there’s already no buses running where they are – when it comes to their belief that the Tea >Party people and their sympathizers are racists. That they resent (hate) Obama because of his skin >color. But it’s part of the liner notes, and it must be exploited during each diatribe against the right.
The "Free Market" was shown to be an abysmal failure. Did you miss 2008?
President Obama is a "Constitutional Scholar"! I hope you don't mind if I defer to his knowledge vs. your opinion.
I'm sorry, the opinions of Fox News don't carry a lot of weight with me.
I've cited the examples of "racist rhetoric" in the Tea Party. We have ALL seen the placards and posters, and we have the demographics.
Anything I've missed or misrepresented?
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CNN Opinion Research Poll on Demographics of Tea Party
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/17/rel4b.pdf
Tea Party Advocates Who Scorn Socialism Want a Government Job
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLBZwxqgYgwI
University of Washington 2010 Multi-state Survey on Race & Politics
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/mssrp_table.pdf
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/teaparty_table.pdf
These polls all seem to support some prominent points that the "Tea Party" wishes it could refute.
The "Tea Party" is made up of mostly white males who live in "rural" America, are conservative Christians who make "above average" incomes, and have VIEWS ON RACE that significantly differ from the MAJORITY of the rest of America.
Damn facts!
SirReal1
Those polls show race, gender, culture, all that. They don't show that the Tea Party members are wrong in their beliefs. The polls don't show that they're all the evil things "progressives" believe them to be. The polls don't show the anti-Tea Party people to be on the right side of things; the polls essentially show cultural differences between Americans.
Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:26 PM on 4/17/2010
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"They don't show that the Tea Party members are wrong in their beliefs."
I get it now. So you don't disagree that the Tea Party has been supportive of "racist" views, you simply agree with them.
Thanks, that clears up a lot.
Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:48 PM on 4/17/2010
Point by point!
er, crickets.
The basic argument is that the right are racists, power hungry (greedy), unscrupulous etc etc. And these points simply do not represent the majority. AND.. the majority of the right do not like or condone these things any more than you do. I am speaking for myself but also for the majority of the right, who are Christians and who do go to church, with the ultimate goal/ desire to be Christ like. Not saying that we all are.. we're human and it's a work in progress but... at least we're trying. And with regular "weekly" study.. it is reasonable to conclude that most do adhere to these teachings.
The part about "(that Black Man in their White House)".. yes, there are no doubt people who are saying that to themselves... but they do not make up the entire right.. they do not even make up a significant percentage of the right... the only thing you have to base that on are the signs at the rallies and a disturbed individual being interviewed on a rare occasion. Some simple math: How many people are in the crowd? And how many of those are holding racist signs?
It's just not fair to attach minority views to the majority. And not only that, it's not good for the actual issue.. if the idea is to eradicate it.
cont...
And lack of scruples? Dirty tactics? Piggybacking? That is certainly not exclusive of the right. The accusation of racism fits your piggybacking scenario perfectly...
piggybacking on the innate human desire to join in on a mob mentality of hate for the "ignorant"... Crying racism with pointed fingers, when it is just not there for the majority, is piggybacking on the innate desire to hate those who are "ignorant".
Am I right?
You DO know that the right are the majority responsible for hate and prejudice. Don't muck around with your "Piggybacking? That is certainly not exclusive of the right."
It's like a gang of kids jumping and knifing a person and the one kid that throws one rock is the kid you accuse of the victims worst injuries. Silly. And wrong. And you know it.
Your silence on not putting down loudly the right-wing populace that manifests all this hate makes you just as awful. You stay in the fold of conservative Christians and do nothing to push back on their self-righteous hate. You are one of them.
If your logic were true, a "significant percentage of the right" would be loudly criticizing the overt racism, but they do not. And since they do not, one can only assume that they are in silent collusion with it.
You sure have AMPED up the trollies today! Good one.
The Dems are certainly not without lobby purchased influence themselves, but it's not hard to see why the more hypocritical and FAR more corporate / big-business minded republican'ts - really ONLY want the Democrats to 'change' ...nothing.