tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post2937774880736932774..comments2024-03-24T18:43:18.706-04:00Comments on Darwinfish 2: The GOP Playbook - A Study in Attaining and Maintaining Powerbluzdudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-80353742792221474342019-01-04T19:18:11.521-05:002019-01-04T19:18:11.521-05:00This program was prescribed by Lewis Powell in a m...This program was prescribed by Lewis Powell in a memo to the US Chamber of Commerce in 1971, “Attack on American Free Enterprise System." BOWMANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02090804739178886953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-69164550738974675852019-01-02T18:16:17.599-05:002019-01-02T18:16:17.599-05:00Thanks for visiting, Dave.
Regarding their media ...Thanks for visiting, Dave.<br /><br />Regarding their media use, Republicans have constructed the perfect "closed loop." They repeat their refrain about how the media has liberal bias for years upon years. Then whenever a media outlet debunks one of their outright lies or some other fiscal malfeasance, they go, "See, liberal media."<br /><br />They've inoculated themselves from media watchdogs by convincing their base that the media can't be trusted. <br /><br />"Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?"bluzdudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-57791662697817130502019-01-02T17:37:44.213-05:002019-01-02T17:37:44.213-05:00Always a pleasure to read the thoughts of a fellow...Always a pleasure to read the thoughts of a fellow observer of the American far Right.<br /><br />One important propaganda tool of the Right is their unilateral definitions of terms, as weaponized by Gingrich and Luntz. This has become a dictionary of deceptions. Demonizing the word liberal led to demonizing "liberal media", which set up "fake news", for example. <br /><br />Corporatism has firmly fused with fanatic fundamentalism and white nationalism. A Corpo-Ethno-Conservatism is the monster they created. <br /><br />The tragedy is compounded by the deliberate negligence of corporate media in acknowledging this reality. Corporate media is so cowed by crazed and false accusations of liberal bias, it's rare enough for them to discuss climate change, let alone mention the secret word, "neo-liberalism".<br /><br />“Conservative” used to mean adhering to family and tradition, valuing personal responsibility, a work ethic, and basic human decency. Liberals share these values as well, but for the moment, let us allow them to hold their claim.<br /><br />Where conservatives and liberals really diverged was in tolerance for Constitutional regulation of commerce, taxes, and the general welfare, but more critically, an aversion to change and suspicion of the new and unfamiliar.<br /><br />That was the chink in their armor. Conservatism was about to be transformed into Con-servatism. All that was needed to recruit and exploit conservatives were people with a lot of money who wanted a lot more money to tell them who to fear and who to blame.<br /><br />Anger and hate would follow, and compel them to the polls.<br /><br />Today’s Con-servatism is the result.<br /><br />"Con-servatism 101" is my course of study.<br />Dave Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-59645841844568032018-12-31T11:06:10.373-05:002018-12-31T11:06:10.373-05:00OK, that was inelegantly put, I agree. I should ha...OK, that was inelegantly put, I agree. I should have prefaced that by saying there are obviously exceptions and that was not meant to be an all-inclusive statement.<br /><br />Blue collar workers can definitely seek out higher education and move into a different realm and others who have been to college may still not possess these specific critical thinking skills. While critical thinking classes <i>should</i> be a prerequisite to graduating, they remain an area that must be purposefully pursued.<br /><br />The larger point is that Republican leadership continues to work to prevent people from pursuing higher education as a means to ensure their weapons-grade persuasion techniques continue to work. They maintain higher student loan rates, they squash teacher salaries, they push test answer regurgitation over creative thinking and problem solving, they belittle scientists and educated people as elitist eggheads while extolling "common horse-sense," (which doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.)<br /><br />If they wanted an educated population, they wouldn't stake out those positions.bluzdudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05991272670722362652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-9800686731275880802018-12-30T19:01:42.180-05:002018-12-30T19:01:42.180-05:00"While I don’t have any quarrel for learning ..."While I don’t have any quarrel for learning a trade for those whose career goals are low, it’s a direct path to life with little critical thinking." <br />Really! Been blue collar, now I have 3 college diploma's and work with a lot of folks who's critical thinking skills are no better or worse than tradespeople. You are full of it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409847908258525364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329507352453931374.post-50649463161452188792018-07-31T12:41:35.387-04:002018-07-31T12:41:35.387-04:00People need to vote as if their lives depended on ...People need to vote as if their lives depended on it. Because they do.jonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09357820440454534635noreply@blogger.com