As many of you know, I have long maintained that over 1/2 of conservative talking points are simply Rove/Roy Cohn style lies that mirror your opponent's criticisms. Ol' Abe Lincoln noted this tactic and we trial lawyers use his quote from time to time when corporate defense lawyers employ the same trick.
Conservatives are having tiki torch rallies, white supremacists, blacks hate GOP, D. Duke enthusiastic republican? Libs are racist!
Every conservative and their dog wants Obama to fail and openly sabotages health care to embarrass Obama? Dems want the U.S. to fail.
Cons consistently resist expansions of personal rights, e.g. gay marriage and weed legalization? Demand conformity with songs and pledges of loyalty? Libs are the authoritarians.
I have never seen more feeble-minded mass accept messaging like the Soros deal. The real reason he's been so demonized through the years is to distract and deflect from the influence of the most shitty, greedy, selfish, royalist, elitist, dickheads in the history of our republic: The Koch brothers. Soros hasn't done a fraction of their shenanigans. Most of the wingnut opinions on here were formed by the Kochs, and were rightfully deemed fringe wingnuts by Reagan, Buckley, et al.
Nearly forty years later, many of the Kochs’ policy preferences are now standard Republican orthodoxy, having been promoted from the fringes into the mainstream by the dozens of nonprofit organizations and candidates they funded. Small government, anti-tax, anti-regulatory, and pro-privatization policies, as well as skepticism regarding global warming, are commonplace.
Conservatives are having tiki torch rallies, white supremacists, blacks hate GOP, D. Duke enthusiastic republican? Libs are racist!
Every conservative and their dog wants Obama to fail and openly sabotages health care to embarrass Obama? Dems want the U.S. to fail.
Cons consistently resist expansions of personal rights, e.g. gay marriage and weed legalization? Demand conformity with songs and pledges of loyalty? Libs are the authoritarians.
I have never seen more feeble-minded mass accept messaging like the Soros deal. The real reason he's been so demonized through the years is to distract and deflect from the influence of the most shitty, greedy, selfish, royalist, elitist, dickheads in the history of our republic: The Koch brothers. Soros hasn't done a fraction of their shenanigans. Most of the wingnut opinions on here were formed by the Kochs, and were rightfully deemed fringe wingnuts by Reagan, Buckley, et al.
Nearly forty years later, many of the Kochs’ policy preferences are now standard Republican orthodoxy, having been promoted from the fringes into the mainstream by the dozens of nonprofit organizations and candidates they funded. Small government, anti-tax, anti-regulatory, and pro-privatization policies, as well as skepticism regarding global warming, are commonplace.
