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Astroturf-roots movement: epic fail.
The NO!! For Hire crowds we're seeing at town halls nationwide are brutal, intensely disruptive, and about as backwards as a modern civil society has ever seen.
The mobs arrive bloodthirsty and truth-starved, armed with fear and bile and unfound rumors, thanks to the corrupt conservative slime lords who drive them into a salivating frenzy of hate, leaving them frothing at the mouths once they get handed the microphone.
How many lies can you feed these human beings before they crack? It's only a matter of time.
What's worse, look who's doing the feeding:
Patients First?
Really?!
Isn't this more like Lobbyists First?
Let's establish a universal truth about the names of these advocacy groups; the more human-rights oriented the front sounds--the stronger the name cries out justice for the little guy, the greater the chances are that there is large twisted maniacal laughter lurking behind it.
You cannot debate rationally with these people. They do not want a debate.
They want a fist fight.
No. Even that's not enough.
They want an ECW title match.
They are hoping to snatch idiocy from the jaws of enlightenment.
They'd rather a fight break out than the truth because the truth would ruin them.
The truth always ruins them.
The truth about who they really are is ruining them as we speak.
How many moderates or independents will want to be associated with this vast corrupt underbelly of politics?
Granted, there are plenty of Americans who will proudly confess their loyalty to the likes of radiovangelists like Rush Limbaugh.
And plenty who will take their marching orders from Glenn Beck as if it's their patriotic duty.
But I think the more Americans see just how underhanded and uninformed and unhinged this astro-turf roots movement is; the more they see just which robber barons are funding it, stoking rage for the sole purpose of protecting corporate proifts; the more they see just which of the usual suspects are the real driving force behind it, the faster it will all fail.
And it will be an epic fail.
We are in the heat of it now. And it looks familiar and awful and evil and hopeless and it's easy to lose faith.
But you cannot build effectively long term when all you become known for is unabashed malevolence and perpetual destruction.
When you are found out.
When you are caught on camera, red-handed.
When you are exposed as outright criminals.
That is the difference here, this time.
There is national exposure of average Americans being used as fronts for corporate benefactors. It's like corporate-motive laundering.
The more sunlight on this sinister practice the better.
Let this descent into chaos receive more and more PR.
Reason will ascend more strongly as a result.
The mobs arrive bloodthirsty and truth-starved, armed with fear and bile and unfound rumors, thanks to the corrupt conservative slime lords who drive them into a salivating frenzy of hate, leaving them frothing at the mouths once they get handed the microphone.
How many lies can you feed these human beings before they crack? It's only a matter of time.
What's worse, look who's doing the feeding:
Rick Scott, founder of "Conservatives for Patients Rights",former CEO of a hospital group that had to pay out $1.7 billion in fines to settle allegations of overcharging Medicare and Medicaid.
Dick Armey, chairman of conservative DC lobbying firm "Freedom Works"--which represents pharmaceutical powerhouses like Bristol-Myers Squibb--this is Dick Armey, former Republican majority leader, the man who claimed that in his world view, because God created the heavens and the Earth, it would be "quite pretentious" for people to believe God would permit global warming to even occur.
David Koch, chairman of Koch Industries, the largest privately held oil company in the U.S., Kock is the primary financier of Americans for Prosperity--whose subsidiary is the fiercely counterintuitively named "Patients First".
Patients First?
Really?!
Isn't this more like Lobbyists First?
Let's establish a universal truth about the names of these advocacy groups; the more human-rights oriented the front sounds--the stronger the name cries out justice for the little guy, the greater the chances are that there is large twisted maniacal laughter lurking behind it.
You cannot debate rationally with these people. They do not want a debate.
They want a fist fight.
No. Even that's not enough.
They want an ECW title match.
They are hoping to snatch idiocy from the jaws of enlightenment.
They'd rather a fight break out than the truth because the truth would ruin them.
The truth always ruins them.
The truth about who they really are is ruining them as we speak.
How many moderates or independents will want to be associated with this vast corrupt underbelly of politics?
Granted, there are plenty of Americans who will proudly confess their loyalty to the likes of radiovangelists like Rush Limbaugh.
And plenty who will take their marching orders from Glenn Beck as if it's their patriotic duty.
But I think the more Americans see just how underhanded and uninformed and unhinged this astro-turf roots movement is; the more they see just which robber barons are funding it, stoking rage for the sole purpose of protecting corporate proifts; the more they see just which of the usual suspects are the real driving force behind it, the faster it will all fail.
And it will be an epic fail.
We are in the heat of it now. And it looks familiar and awful and evil and hopeless and it's easy to lose faith.
But you cannot build effectively long term when all you become known for is unabashed malevolence and perpetual destruction.
When you are found out.
When you are caught on camera, red-handed.
When you are exposed as outright criminals.
That is the difference here, this time.
There is national exposure of average Americans being used as fronts for corporate benefactors. It's like corporate-motive laundering.
The more sunlight on this sinister practice the better.
Let this descent into chaos receive more and more PR.
Reason will ascend more strongly as a result.
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"Reason will ascend more strongly as a result."
Here's hoping!
August 7, 2009 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's gonna kill Grandma?
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/obama-wants-to-kill-your-grandma/
August 7, 2009 11:36 PM | Reply | Permalink