Posted on 09/18/2010 9:00:48 PM PDT by PROCON
Sounds like a community organizer’s call to arms.
I have a Fort Worth LEO friend who works in the highest crime areas of the city. He’s a Democrat. Whe we talk politics and I question him about his policy beliefs, I find that his values are strictly conservative.
He insists that he is “old school” Democrat. When I ask what that is, he explains that he is against the super wealthy making money on the backs of working men like himself. He truly believes that the Republican Party stands for the wealthy against the common man.
Yet he complains about all of the reglations that hinder him from doing his job and the welfare families on his beat who use their benefits for drugs and alcohol. I ask him what he would do if he had money to invest. He says he’d start a business and guarantee his own success.
He’s stuck in a mindset that his father (a farmer) instilled in him. A police officer who can’t see the facts in front of him. Very frustrating.
I have a Fort Worth LEO friend who works in the highest crime areas of the city. He’s a Democrat. Whe we talk politics and I question him about his policy beliefs, I find that his values are strictly conservative.
He insists that he is “old school” Democrat. When I ask what that is, he explains that he is against the super wealthy making money on the backs of working men like himself. He truly believes that the Republican Party stands for the wealthy against the common man.
Yet he complains about all of the reglations that hinder him from doing his job and the welfare families on his beat who use their benefits for drugs and alcohol. I ask him what he would do if he had money to invest. He says he’d start a business and guarantee his own success.
He’s stuck in a mindset that his father (a farmer) instilled in him. A police officer who can’t see the facts in front of him. Very frustrating.
It will not work this time around as a majority of Black Folks(the non-government workers and those on section 8) have been hit hard by the policies of Obama. I have heard many Blacks feel ignored by Obama and the fact he is begging the CBC to do his work proves his disconnect with the community he claimed in winning the Presidency.
Urging blacks to vote to maintain their suppressive ways of life: poverty, lack of education, lack of jobs,...
I think there’s a lot of psychology to overcome when it comes to convincing a long time member of a political party that he/she was wrong for all those years. I think the tea party movement can help us overcome some of that psychology. When Democrats (especially loosely affiliated democrats) see a grassroots movement like the tea party “taking over” the GOP, it becomes possible to make the argument that the GOP of “long ago” that they learned to hate is no more and, in its place is a Republican party dominated by common folk that share a few values with them. The media will, of course, try to prevent us from making such an argument by tagging us with various labels - like “racists” for example.
All those who voted for Obama did so because they are racists. Thanks PROCON.
My hubby thought this way too! Until I “changed” him. His dad was a “blue collar” democrat. But he was always anti-union. I converted him ;)
I should say I used his anti union sentiment to turn him completely against libertard “rats” aka “progressives.”
“Your Hope has been redistributed. Here’s your Change.”
I hadn’t seen this before. If you thought this up, it’s very clever!
I have a case of raceaphobia. Is that a word? Can I make that a word?
They have to support him. They’ve invested literally everything in this guy. They invested their trust, hopes, dreams, everything. If this guy (Obama) ‘fails’ as a President, then by proxy, in their minds, they’ve failed. It means the chances of electing another guy like this in the future as president will pretty much never happen, because everyone will think of Barry and all the crap he pulled. It’s quite sad actually.
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I agree with you.
Hubby works with a well educated black man who continues to believe that all this negative press lately about Zero and his idiotic decisions is cuz ‘they are after him’, ‘can’t stand to see the black man do well’, ‘gotta tear him down somehow’ ~ he likens it to the “right-wing conservative media”. I guess that’s like Hillary’s vast right wing conspiracy.....related or something.
He tells people in the office on an almost daily basis that it’s these Republicans that can’t stand to see the black man succeed and so they make up these lies that racist people, (read the rest of us) believe. He has worked with my husband about 6 years and said to him, “well I don’t mean like you and your family, but most of the people like you”
SAD
It was originally a comment in reply to another FReeper’s apparent sense of despair.
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Like Rush said [I think it was Rush anway], “Hope and change. We hope he changes.”
The change will be, Obama out of the Oval Office and repeal and repudiation of his unjust, unconstitutional, and/or illegal legislative and ex-order agenda.
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