Posted on 11/25/2010 7:58:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If you don’t embrace your serfdom you must be an angry, white racist.
Pray for America
Look how long the title is.
Palin is snarky? Reich is projecting.
If he had just left it at 'the anger of America's working class' he would've been right.
Everything Reich sees is through his lense of race, class, anti-nativism, intellectual superiority, Archie Bunker "working class authoritarianism", sexual preferences, etc.
He does an excellent job of marginalizing himself and his fellow travellers.
Keep it up Dr. Reich.
Sarah will not be a divider she will unite the GOP.
Unfortunately the element that might support a Jeb Bush candidacy is already backing away.
The world will end and all the children will die if we don't do everything they say.
Robert baby. You will be flogged by your masters for saying ...the truth. This economy will likely be flat for some time. Flat, that is, if you do much of the right things to encourage economic growth. Declining, if you don't.
BTW, Rob, your PDS needs some more meds. See to it as soon as Obamacare kicks in, will ya?
Its all part of The Palin Strategy for becoming president in 2012 or 2016 or 2020.
Personally, I don't think Sarah had a strategy for running for President. However, I do think it is evolving as circumstances dictate. She is not molding events, the events are leading her and her response to them is appealing to a lot of people.
The Republican establishment doesnt get it. Celebrity is part of The Palin Strategy as is avoiding the insider game. She doesnt want to do what Huckabee, Pawlenty, Gingrich, or Romney have to do. She has an outside game.
Palin is fighting two foes - the Left and career politicians of any stripe. Those are the ones who sometimes enter politics to be of service but soon become seduced by power, perks and easy money and start watching polls and hiring political consultants. Others go in for the power, perks and easy money with little or no intention to serve. Those are her and our foes.
As I noted in Aftershock, families responded by sending wives and mothers into the paid workforce, working longer hours, and then, finally, going deep into debt. These coping mechanisms allayed but did not remove the growing anxiety.
A typical aloof intelectual take on everyday life. He sees families doing whatever they have to do to survive as a "coping mechanism." Only a person in a protected position with no fear of hardship could look at life that way.
Over the years, Republicans have channeled the anxiety into anger, through overt appeals to a so-called silent majority that were overlooked by Democrats and liberals; through tax revolts by working and middle-class families that couldnt afford to pay more; and in subtle and not-so-subtle appeals to racist fears (Willie Horton).
How much more evidence do we need? No one channeled anxiety into anger, the Republicans simply responded to the anger with suggested solutions to the problem. Only a Leftist would see that as channeling an emotion. That is what they do, create an emotion and then guide it into political action.
Could it possibly be there was a so-called Silent Majority of people whose voices could not be heard over the din of politicians and Leftist media? Could it be they finally balked at the high taxes imposed by Democrats to support causes they did not agree with? Could it be that the "racist fears" were not about Willie Horton and race at all but about liberal judges giving killers light sentences and not keeping rapists and murderers in prison? The Democrats didn't overlook the silent majority. They simply ignored them with the expectation their inside game would continue to dominate.
All of this is spawning a new and more virulent politics of anger in the nations white working class, stoked by Republicans anger against immigrants, blacks, gays, intellectuals, and international bankers (consider the latest Fox News salvos against George Soros).
Just more misreading of the tea leaves through the Liberal prism. There is no consideration that the anger is real and that it does not need to be stoked. We are angry at Democrat policies that create victim groups to whom to pander. We are angry at intellectuals like Reich who just can't seem to get it. We are angry that Marxists like Soros manipulate free enterprise to their own benefit and then use those fortunes to destroy free enterprise. Actually, Soros and most Marxists in general are simply narcissistic opportunist who use the lies of Marxism to gain power and fortune for themselves. And, yes, that angers us!
Once nominated, her campaign for the general election will be purely populist. Shell seek to broaden her base to become the candidate of the people, taking on Americas vested Establishment.
She is not seeking to broaden her base for political reasons, as a Democrat would do. She is seeking to do what is right for this country and that in itself broadens her base because we agree with her and want her to succeed.
More than anything else, the Palin Strategy depends on the continuing fear and anger of Americas white working class. Shes betting that their economic prospects will not improve by 2012, or even by 2016 and beyond. Our economic structure how we now allocate the gains of growth, the yawning gap between Wall Street and Main Street, the incentives operating on large corporations to pare American payrolls and expand abroad almost dictates it.
Once again, ascribing motives which exist only in a Progressive's mind. They are not Palin's motives and they are not ours.
It also continues to anger me that the Democrats claim that conservative support for free enterprise makes us pawns of Wall Street. It is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who are buds of the Wall Street movers and shakers. However, rather than depending on free enterprise to work its magic, they game the system with insider dealings between Wall Street and Washington. Then they blame the fallout on Republicans.
It all fits into Sarah Palins strategy.
Only in the eyes of Marxists like Reich. What is the Democrat counter strategy? The politics of personal destruction! They will ridicule her and her family. They will lie about her and her family. They will invite her to liberal media sites to try to trick her with obtuse questions and obscure facts, like "What do you think of the Bush Strategy?". They will plant union thugs in her rally's to cause trouble and pretend to be Tea Party patriots.
Liberalism cannot exist without lies and deception. We will see that in full flower in the coming months.
Why would anyone want to vote for a party like that?
I am sorry - not wanting to offend - just a little joke because Reich is so offensive!
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