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Obama administration and congressional Democrats are betting their
political futures on the hope that the American electorate is ignorant
and forgetful, and hence the memo has gone out to functionaries hither
and yon, from David Axelrod to John Kerry: This is to be called the
“tea-party downgrade.” That this is said with straight faces bespeaks
either an unshakable contempt for the mind of the American voter or an
as-yet unplumbed capacity for Democratic self-delusion. (Obama
Makes History (of Our AAA Credit)
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I find myself compelled to read, store, and
promote arguments like these in the NRO piece. It goes back to my
earliest days of using the internet thing to discuss politics, in
real time, on the NYT bulletin board. I found that, in many
cases, presenting actual data in response to some leftist
canker-blossom's postulation could win an argument. Sometimes I'd
be met with a seemingly irrefutable counter-claim. That
caused me to spend time, hours sometimes (no Google, no search
engines), to get at the truth of the matter. It was a game you
could win, if you were good enough. So just now I'm wondering why
I'm still doing this? Facts don't matter anymore. They just
don't. The opponent today is ideology. This ideology, as
advanced 100 years ago by Dear
Leader#1..
- A lie told often enough becomes
the truth.
- If Socialism can only be realized when the
intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall
not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
- It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that
it must be carefully rationed.
- Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of
atheism.
- The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to
debauch the currency.
- The goal of socialism is communism.
- The government is tottering. We must deal it the
death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
- The press should be not only a collective
propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer
of the masses.
- The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them
between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
- There are no morals in politics; there is only
expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a
scoundrel.
In other times, this NRO
sequence would have value. Now I don't think it does, other than
validating what some people already know to be true. Sigh.
Back to my fallback position. The
BUTTON
(On the
plus side, truth will alway prevail. That I, almost certainly,
will not be around to enjoy the day doesn't alter the fact. Cheers. )
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