Posted on 09/17/2014 9:32:45 AM PDT by Heartlander
nails it
Great Read!
Not only are they Narrative driven, liberals invent “facts” as they are needed to support that Narrative. Just look at so-called AGW. Not only is there NO scientific consensus (there is NEVER scientific consensus) but AGW isn’t even a Scientific Theory.
But if you cite those, leftists just say “nya nya nya I can’t hear you” — and it isn’t my job to teach science these idiots.
They deal in unicorns and emotional possibilities.
We deal in factual probabilities that have predictable results.
Newt and Dick Armey gave us the “Contract with America.”
Mitch gets democrats to vote in a Mississippi runoff while John Boehner takes another drink.
Our narrative is liberty and personal responsibility. Liberty is essentially a “nothingness”. It is an absence of tyranny and abuse. It’s a hard sell to those who have not yet lost it.
I continue to wonder exactly how much hardship and pain it will take to wake up enough Americans to what is really happening.
The GOP has no one in the Leadership who can articulate any benefit to free enterprise, the rule of law, sanctity of contracts, security of borders, or any of the principles enunciated in the Declaration or the Constitution. They are not familiar with them, they do not believe them, they do not understand them. To the GOP leadership it is a foreign language. We cannot expect them [and most of us don't] to be able to argue a case in a language they cannot speak.
Bfl
The writer had a great "narrative" of his own, until he said that. Christians believe that the Genesis accounts are monumentally germane to the problem of combating liberalism, socialism, communism, elitism, progressivism, enviro-wackoism, abortionism, multiculturalism, and the like. Christians' worldview includes the reality of original sin, God's judgment, along with His powerful, remediating mercy. Liberals deny it. So do libertarians.
Well and good to disbelieve Genesis, as is the writer's prerogative. Not so good to gratuitously include his disbelief in an essay addressed, at least in part, to his Christian-right allies in this, a greater cause: developing a uniform narrative that would appeal to voters (since they seem to value narrative so highly).
Here's your narrative, and it must be harped stridently: "Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, et al, are trying to dismantle the Constitution. They are driving us toward civil war." Maybe that would get someone's attention. We would be called mean-spirited; but guess what? We already are.
I do it the easy way. The minute I am told a lie by the rat I call him out. Then I call him an idiot.
Alinsky said that is a rats biggest fear. So I use it as often as I can. When I am called a bully, I call him a little sissy.
They hate it.
For them what is scientific is science as a mean, as a magic bullet to satisfy their essentially corrupted self indulging thinking.
The PC narrative that we have to prove to government is essentially theocratic, no less outrageous than a Pope declaring himself sinless and Jesus.
Again, they all want to believe in that magic bullet pipe dream that fixes everything but in fact is a big charade. They care not to understand science but to use it. Capitalism is a way of living, to them it is a mean to get money, and thus they project their using capitalism onto the capitalist.
Winning an argument for them is a democratic things, it is not an attestation of what is right or wrong, just sheer force of numbers and other means.
Many liberals I met were completely crushed and mocked by a group, and only when peer mocked and crushed that way did they respect the argument. They never follow the justification, they only follow what is least painful to them.
Conservatives avoid bad business because it is bad, liberals boycott business because they want to attack and extort what is not willing to support their parasitic thinking.
Bfl
Mitch gets democrats to vote in a Mississippi runoff ......
Mitch didn’t persuade the Dems. to vote. The Dems voted on their own to defeat the more conservative candidate.
)Unless that’s what you were saying).
I continue to wonder exactly how much hardship and pain it will take to wake up enough Americans to what is really happening.
Even if hurts them on a personal level, most will never comprehend why.
Very insightful!
Bump for later
You are right. When I read the Genesis comment I almost stopped reading but I didn’t. Christians believe the Bible is the written word of God and that God has the final say so in all that happens on this earth whether liberals believe it or not. While I would like a good “sock it to them” response to some of their nonsensical beliefs, I believe the final decisions will be God’s. In the meantime, I will stand up for freedom, the Constitution, the United STATES of America and do my part to save our American way of life.
Not deep enough. The inner city people vote Democrat because they think they’re good people? Nope. Look deeper. It’s fear. There are a corps of smart, greedy people running the Democrat Party. The majority of the Democrat voters are people who are afraid. They are afraid that if they don’t vote Democrat, they will starve (inner city). They are afraid that if they don’t vote Democrat, their standard of living will decline (union members). They are afraid that if they don’t vote Democrat, they will lose their jobs (government workers and university professors). They are afraid that if they don’t vote Democrat, there will be too many people in this world (abortionists and all Democrats). Fear is at the core of the Democrat Party. The leaders of the Republican Party are too stupid to understand and use that fear.
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