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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Geez, it's like the 2008 Presidential campaign re-visited. If you don't have a better idea, I suppose they think it's more effective to simply "engage and enrage" the public with emotional rhetoric. What's amazing is that the public is dumb enough to permit it to work.
Do you think that maybe both sides use Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals? Does this conduct from the town meetings that have been covered by the media sound familiar? - RULE 3: Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
- RULE 5: Ridicule is the most potent weapon. There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works. Create anger and fear.
And the public is dumb enough to buy it. Shame on us. |
Some could say the public has already bought into a whole load of dumb, and the sales force is trying to peddle more of the same while the mark(et) is still vulnerable.
When you tell everybody that....
- the government is broke,
- the economy has tanked,
- retirement funds have evaporated, and everything of what folk thought had decent value (like houses) are now worth 2/3rds of their value of three years ago,
- the last remaining major manufacturing industry is crashing, and the government has to go deeper into debt to keep them afloat, and
- to save us we need to double the debt and spend even more money that we don't have,
.......is it any wonder folk are now getting scared when the government says its going even deeper in debt with more new programs which will take more money out of peoples' pockets (higher taxes) at a time when every dime the average family has is going to pay existing bills and feeding families.
Our multi-millionaire First Family, VP, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader and others DON'T FEEL THE PAIN, so they don't understand. To them it's just words on the teleprompter, as they aren't being mortgage-strapped, going crazy trying to balance family budgets day-by-day or worrying about whether their job is next to go. And the folks who are hurting are beginning to realize that they are just the pawns on the chessboard. Yeah, they are mad, upset, and are going to be heard!