Posted on 12/28/2012 9:11:25 AM PST by Perseverando
Exclusive: Robert Ringer seeks ways to get through to the redistribution-minded
While driving into D.C. last week, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh expound on an important issue that I don’t believe many pro-liberty people give much thought to. He said that “low-information” voters present a serious problem because there is no way to reach people who are uninformed. Worse, most of these people don’t like conservatives or libertarians.
No doubt about it, Rush has zeroed in on the crux of the problem when it comes to the decline and fall of the American Empire. How in the world do you reach people who not only are devoid of knowledge, but, in addition, don’t like the very people who have the information they so desperately need?
Worse, low-information voters are attracted to slogans, catchwords and fact-free propaganda – the more outrageous, the better. They are drawn to gobbledygook like “pay your fair share,” “social justice” and “shared prosperity” because such nonsense requires no thinking and thus is easily digested by the brain.
We’ve all seen the random street interviews with people who have no clue about the national debt, Benghazi-gate, Obamacare, or even the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These hollowheads know nothing about Barack Obama’s radical socialist past or that he has never been vetted by the media. They know only that he has a great smile, tells them he will make the rich pony up a still larger share of their ill-gotten gains and promises to give them evermore free stuff.
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my mother is one of them.... she thinks she’s a liberal, except when you question her on individual issues and don’t mention party affiliation or beliefs... she swings right.
Unfortunately she has been ingrained to think she hates republicans, and viscerally can’t stand any of our spokespeople.
That’s the kicker... for the most part I can’t stand our legislative spokespeople either, but I don’t vote on personality.
The Caliphate won't allow it. Space etc. and Anglo Christian history will be purged.
“American Empires”?
We don’t WANT an American Empire!
We want a Republic!
Tocqueville predicted this in DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA back in the 1830s. Every great nation has a rise and fall...we are on the downside unless a way can be found to reach these people.
I’m not hopeful. I have talked to some Obama voters who hold college degrees...who have never heard of “Fast and Furious”, nor Bengahzi. When I bring these topics up...their answer is...”it can’t be important or it would have been covered in the “news”...meaning ABCBSNBCNNPRPBS.
When I explain that only Fox covers news that doesn’t fit the liberal agenda they look at me like I’m crazy.
We are up against a media that’s mostly in the tank for Obama. That’s just the way it is.
because they definitely aren't interested in "braaaains".
NO!
Most of the democrat votes are from people long dead. I would almost bet money that teddie kennedy voted last November.
Until we start to secure the voting rolls, no real conservative or Christian will ever again get elected.
Yes. Absolutely. The left hasn’t the slightest problem reaching them.
Only if Conservatives can come up with a candidate whom they would regard as “cool” and “hip” (which is why the Dems are on a constant Search And Destroy mission for guys like Marco Rubio)
I was a pretty low information voter at one point (never a liberal, but still low information) because I was clueless on the issues in a lot of instances. I started betting politicized after 9/11 and started getting on the Internet. It really doesn’t take that great an effort to upgrade your information capacity. One will not become a wizard over night, but bit by bit, if you read etc. you will have the knowledge to make better informed decisions. I would consider myself a libertarian conservative.
I was a pretty low information voter at one point (never a liberal, but still low information) because I was clueless on the issues in a lot of instances. I started betting politicized after 9/11 and started getting on the Internet. It really doesn’t take that great an effort to upgrade your information capacity. One will not become a wizard over night, but bit by bit, if you read etc. you will have the knowledge to make better informed decisions. I would consider myself a libertarian conservative.
I was a pretty low information voter at one point (never a liberal, but still low information) because I was clueless on the issues in a lot of instances. I started betting politicized after 9/11 and started getting on the Internet. It really doesn’t take that great an effort to upgrade your information capacity. One will not become a wizard over night, but bit by bit, if you read etc. you will have the knowledge to make better informed decisions. I would consider myself a libertarian conservative.
bologna... obama is only “cool and hip” because he tells people what he thinks they want to hear
the problem with the republican party and conservatives in general ( of which I am one) is that instead of becoming great ourselves and positively influencing those around us we are looking for a knight on a white horse to save the day
get over it and get to work. changing attitudes is going to take each and every one of us in the trenches talking to those whom we rather not talk to about things we may be uncomfortable talking about..and honestly looking in the mirror and asking if we have truly done our part
More evidence of how Romney became the nominee, as conservatives are more and more isolated from the GOP, pro-abortion-pro-homosexual, anti-social conservative, libertarians are being given equal status. It is relabeling the Rockefeller branch of the GOP which is republican on economics and democratic on social issues.
So, why then did Obama win? Why did the Low Information Voter pull the lever for him?
-He was “cool”.
-He was “hip”
-He was not the dorky rich white guy who belonged to the wacky cult, exported jobs to China and gave people cancer.
-He will give us free stuff.
Unless we plan to outdo them in giving away free stuff we had better figure out points 1, 2 and 3.
The Republicans listen to Political Scientists who tell them that they can win a precinct in Florida by getting seven more old ladies to the polls. The Democrats listen to Behavioral Scientists who tell them to use fear and scare millions of people into voting Democrat. I have never been on welfare, so I can’t speak from experience, but I don’t think you can get rich on welfare. I suppose you could if you collected for a dozen people, but I don’t think people stay on welfare to get rich. I think the Democrats scare people into believing that the Republicans are going to take away their means of meeting their most basic needs. Look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The Republicans are talking about the top end of the hierarchy, Self-Actualization. The Democrats scare the voters at the bottom end of the hierarchy, Physiological Needs. Maslow taught that the lower needs must be met before a person can advance up the Hierarchy. Well, the Democrats have figured out, using their Nazi Behavioral Scientists, that they can keep people voting for them by convincing the voters that they should FEAR the Republicans taking away their ability to meet their lower, Physiological Needs. It is one of the most heinous frauds ever perpetrated on a group of people, and those caring Democrats are doing it every day. Why do you think the Democrats are so big on gun control? The Democrats use gun control arguments to scare people into voting for them. “The Republicans want you to die!”
The RNC needs to have informational commercials on tv shows like Celebrity Ghost Stories etc.
That is my experience with almost all honest "liberals." They are really conservative, but just don't know it.
Lets get a little more practical here. Can’t the Tea Party or other groups do public service type announcements on Ellen Degeneris, Jerry Springer, Judge Judy etc?
You have to talk to people where they live, even though we don’t like the place.
How about something like :: “yeah, these relationships on Judge Judy are pretty gross. You know if you make the right choices you could form a great family and avoid these situations,,, without government help.” Brought to you by The Tea Party, Family Values Coalition, etc.
“cool “ and “hip” are code for he will give us free stuff
If you listen to Obama’s speeches they are crafted to be intensely personal without saying anything. The low information voter fills in the blanks to hear what they want to hear regarding their own lives.
the “dorky white guy” argument is less about the candidate and more about the philosophy of conservatism. conservative principles are “old fashioned” “out of date”
there is no white knight (or hispanic for that matter) riding in with the cavalry to save the day. defeating the cultural rot is going to take each and every conservative in America getting into the trenches with their low information neighbor and showing them by example why discipline, hard work and fear and love of the Lord is the only way to happiness. It will be long, slow and painful, but it is the only way.
Lets get a little more practical here. Can’t the Tea Party or other groups do public service type announcements on Ellen Degeneris, Jerry Springer, Judge Judy etc?
You have to talk to people where they live, even though we don’t like the place.
How about something like :: “yeah, these relationships on Judge Judy are pretty gross. You know if you make the right choices you could form a great family and avoid these situations,,, without government help.” Brought to you by The Tea Party, Family Values Coalition, etc.
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