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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.
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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.
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Very insightful!
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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.
The issue is never the issue, the real issue is the revolution.
Libs don’t understand logic and they always think they win the argument no matter how illogical they are.
Had a run in with one yesterday after a mutual friend posted a Robert Reich quote on Facebook basically blasting CEO pay. I pointed out that Reich made about $250k in 2013 as a professor … teaching one class ... in an effort to show Reich’s hypocrisy.
He responded with some rambling about how much a cafeteria manager makes … not sure what that has to do with the conversation. Then he said something about conservatives making a big deal out of how much a person makes. Wait … what?
I simply wished him “good day” and left the conversation.
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