Seventeen minutes to frame the campaign. From the director who gave us “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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Much has been made of the precipitous decline in the level of discourse in the United States. Many attribute this to the coarsening of the language and the ever-widening gulf between the various factions in the political spectrum. However, these factors are a symptom of a current underlying and foundational dilemma: the inability of not only the general public, but nearly all of the so-called societal leaders and opinion-makers to generate an original thought, as well as a stubborn refusal to use reason and logic when confronted with irrefutable facts and arguments.
These traits can be explained, insofar as the general public is concerned, as the consequence of their subjection for the past forty years to a woeful and deliberately incomplete education bordering on indoctrination. However, this factor does not fully explain many of the so-called best and brightest falling into the same abyss and being unable to coherently expound on an original thought or concept. While this is true for a few on the conservative side of the political spectrum, it is overwhelmingly the case among those who self-identify as liberals or progressives.
Those who publicly espouse the statist philosophy do so in age-old and threadbare platitudes. The depth of thought rarely exceeds three basic tenets: 1) capitalism and individual wealth accumulation are evil; 2) only an economy and society dominated and controlled by a powerful central government can guarantee fairness of outcome; and 3) anyone who disagrees with 1 and 2 is dangerous, ignorant, and not only greedy, but tyrannical and thus must be relegated to the ash heap of society.
Failing to understand that these tenets have been in existence since the late 1840s, the current proponents act as if they have discovered some new and overwhelmingly successful concept. The failure of those nations that chose to go down this road is conveniently ignored or mired in blissful ignorance. Mindlessly defending American progressivism is all that matters.
This is most evident when the advocates of this errant viewpoint appear on television or the radio to debate or discuss the issues of the day. Whenever conveniently among their fellow-travelers, every conversation immediately degenerates into a creative name-calling or false accusation exercise aimed at any and all on the right who vehemently disagree with the left and their stewardship of the country.
These true-believers never offer any new ideas or concepts on how to improve the lot of the people except to expand government. How or why government bureaucracies coercing additional trillions of dollars from the marketplace and spending it as they see fit would make life better when it has not worked in other countries is not discussed, as that question cannot be answered and is thus ignored. What is not ignored is the unwritten marching order to regurgitate a well-worn script, also conceived in the late 1840s, to undermine, demean, and destroy those who actively oppose the progressive agenda.
Whenever these same proponents appear with the conservative opposition, a pre-programmed recording is switched on. This consists of: Barack Obama is doing a great job considering he inherited the worst situation since the Great Depression; the nation needs to spend more money to solve any and all problems while raising taxes on the evil rich; conservatives are callous and care little for minorities, women, and children; and any overt criticism of President Obama is a subtle expression of racism. When called out on these points and confronted with irrefutable facts, the recording is switched on again and repeated as often as necessary.
This is a manifestation not only of mind-numbed robotic incompetence, but, more importantly, of the necessity of those who traffic in these banalities to be part of what they perceive to be the in-crowd and the absolute necessity to stay in the good graces of the governing class which is predominantly liberal, with access not only to government largess, but to ego-gratifying mainstream news and entertainment media attention. This subservience requires no independence of thought or the ability to generate an original idea. Being a mindless foot soldier for the cause maintains an emotional attachment to the elites.
At the top of the pyramid are the liberal elites in government, academia, and the media/entertainment complex. While they may sit in think-tanks, government offices, newsrooms, and faculty lounges, regaling each other demonstrating who may be the smartest in the room, they too are essentially incapable of initiating an original thought or having any independence of mind. In the realm of political theory, the only accepted and promulgated ideology is that of an all-powerful central government controlling the day-to-day lives of the ignorant American populace — a premise that will succeed where others have failed if they, the elites, are given full and unfettered access to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.
These current leaders of the movement, as personified by Barack Obama, are incapable of admitting any error in their thinking, as they have spent virtually their entire lives in the company of the like-minded. Thus, their superiority to the unwashed masses is unquestioned, and their ability to govern is beyond dispute. Unfettered narcissism is a prerequisite for those who espouse socialist/progressive ideology.
The majority of the American people, asleep during the past sixty years of overwhelming peace and prosperity, are gradually waking up to the massive deception that has been perpetrated by the left and their inability to solve the almost insolvable problems they, in large part, have created. Thus, the tone and nature of political discourse has become more strident, as the left, in an effort to protect their gains, status, and self-image, will do or say anything regardless of the damage it may inflict on the country.
Over the past fifteen years, the intellectual pendulum in the United States has dramatically swung back to those who espouse the tenets of individual freedom as well as free-market capitalism. The phenomenal success of conservative think-tanks, talk radio, and websites, and the domination of the bestseller lists by not only current conservative authors such as Mark Levin and David Limbaugh, but also by historical figures such as Friedrich Hayek reflect this seismic shift. With the awakening of the American people and the requisite defeat of Barack Obama as well as the left-dominated Democratic Party in November 2012, the nation can embark on bridging the political gulf and begin to dispatch permanently the failed theories, vitriol, and demagoguery of the self-described progressives.
Another cut and paste article from The American Thinker website written by a Steve McCann.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_american_left_and_the_erosion_of_public_discourse.html
Daria Novak (or someone posting under her name) pulled the same thing over at CT Mirror.
http://ctmirror.org/story/15568/two-years-after-passage-courtney-still-selling-health-reform
What’s the deal? Is it so hard to put your own thoughts into words or at least not steal the words of others and give them credit?
I may not agree with much of what Todd has to say but I’ll give him props for his goofy little poems. You google Todd’s poems and you know whose name comes up? Todd’s.
So Harvey Weinstein gave Barry a great big NO
Making a movie about Obama is certain to blow
Teachers and the media tell us all Obama is so great
Just look at the economy…I hope it’s not too late
Sycophants and morons they will clap and they will stare
I pray to God that the new president will end this ObamaCare
In 2009 he was the best thing since sliced bread
Since his election this is the worst we’ve ever been led
We’ve been had and completely beguiled
This is what happens when you elect an incompetent child
Todd, that’s almost poetic.
Rick,
Roses are red and Nantucket poems will not do
Face facts Obama is all done and he’s through
Without his teleprompter he will sweat and stammer
Not too long until Eric Holder is in the slammer
A movie about Obama campaigning will not be fun
After all that’s all he’s been doing that since day one
Barry has all but ruined our Dow Jones
Could anyone use a free welfare cell phone
Win a title come to DC and Barry will call you champs
No wonder Newt called him the President of Food Stamps
Our economy is in the dumps we’ve really taken some licks
Don’t forget to vote for an adult on this November six
Obama has been exposed as a phony and egotistical fake
Voting for him again would be an even bigger mistake
2008 we elected a guy who wasn’t even born here
Four more years of Barry is something we all should fear
In this election Obama will not carry the south
It’s easy to see when he talks out of both sides of his mouth
On a basketball court young Barry can stop on a dime
Still can’t believe we’ve elected for president such a slime
He’s appointed far too many leftists crazy czars
Even found time to tell General Motors how it should build its cars
Say good night it’s time to put Hope and Change to bed
This is what happens when you elect someone in over his head
The Obamas have lied and put me in a foul mood
Michelle even wants to mandate how we cook our own food
Barry invited a thug “singer” named Common so that he could rap
America now realizes Hope & Change was nothing but a big pile of crap
Barry tries to look smooth as he reads a prepared line
Mitt in the White House should help actually should be quite fine
It’s time to give the Obamas the frigging boot
Imagine private citizen Obama, now imagine the loot
Here’s how we frame the campaign in 2012.
(With thanks to Forbes).
The difference between WalMart’s $100 a year birth control regimen, Sandra Fluke’s $1,200 branded birth control regimen and a premium boutique $2,400 a year regimen?
Medically Nothing. Cost to recipients? Nothing! All are covered under ObamaCare.
Forgetting religion for a minute, this issue is all about status, co-pays for branded regimens, convenience, policy politics, pharmaceutical salesmen and advertising.
It has nothing to do with cost-containment. Ever hear the “generics give me indigestion” excuse?
It has nothing to do with women’s *physical* health either.
For liberals who like comparing the US health care system to Europe guess which brands European policies cover? Branded, Generic or Premium Boutique Branded contraception?
This contraception mandate is all about buying votes: from Big Pharmacy, from anti-Catholic bigots, from poor women who hate generics, from middle class women too proud to get their prescriptions at WalMart.
Nostly it serves as a mental health check on womenhood in America (my spin anyway).
And yes, Amy Pohler, you really need a $1,200 regimen for birth control! Really? When $100 will do? And you really don’t need to go to WalMart anymore for birth control? Really. Pfizer took care of that for you? Really! You’ll never do generics again Amy? Really!
And High School guys won’t need to do use condoms anymore. Really. Because it the girls responsibility now. Really.
Forbes:
http://tinyurl.com/84u3z3w
More Obama Drama:
Planned Parenthood sells the 3-year birth control implant for $500.
Even Planned Parenthood has a sliding scale that assumes insurance co-pays are enforced for those earning a median income or better.
Given the state of the mental health of American women today (as judged by the bloggers who rant about this stuff) co-pays are out and $500 is much too cheap an option for birth control. Not when there are pricey little pills that can be had by the Pfizer Boutique Premium pill-popping crowd.
The sky’s the limit for my uteru$ writes one Courant blogger.
Then there’s the religious exception to Tom Foolery and price gouging posing as women’s health and reproductive rights.
http://plannedparenthoodosbc.org/services/implanon.asp
Gag me with a spoon. Cecil B. Demille couldn’t get me to vote for another 4 years of the Obamanation.