These Hollywood people are much wittier than I thought
Bookworm on Jan 21 2009 at 8:13 am | Filed under: Hollywood, Silly Stuff
When I first heard about this laughably stupid “I pledge” video emanating from the usual Hollywood yahoos, I thought to myself, “How interesting can something like that really be?” Fortunately, Iowahawk got hold of the rough cut and, frankly, I’m impressed.
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Heh. This was a surprise. You never know where tenacles will reach…!
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-rahm-and-hollywood.html
To Deana,
You wrote a comment at Neo-Neocon’s.
I can’t say much because I’m tired and need to get to bed but one thing that strikes me is that the very nature of being conservative works against us.
I wrote some of my own views concerning this on the “Let the coronation begin” thread. But suffice it to say that I tend to agree on this matter. Even if our details differ.
And Rose – why doesn’t the anger of those on the left work against them? Instead it just wears us all out and we give in because we are exhausted.
A lot of this is due to the fact that the Left are aggressive and thus they tend to be the attackers. It takes more energy, mentally, to defend than it is to attack. The physical advantage goes to the defenders, usually, but since this battle is born of hatred in an ideological realm, the physical component is absent. At least it is here on the net. So all that remains is mental fatigue and the defenders get far more mental fatigue than the attackers do.
Since conservatives are normally “defending” America against Leftist attempts to undermine and sabotage (things like the Iraq War) we expend far more energy in the defense of our chosen policies than the Left takes for attacking those policies.
Also, the fact that they utilize hatred and sacrifice good people like Bush or our military as the fuel for their hatred, also means that they have this little auxiliary “fuel source” that we ourselves do not have. We are not willing to sacrifice our own values and ethics simply to fuel hatred as a tactical advantage over our enemies. The Democrats, however, long ago made that bargain with their souls.
The anger of the Left makes them shortsighted. This would be a serious advantage were we attacking them and putting them on the defensive. But, they are not on the defensive. Because we are not attacking them in force.
I know, though, that you are right. I know it. And yet, most of the times when I’ve calmly spoken with leftists about my beliefs and explained the reasoning behind them, I am met with (at best) astonished silence and disbelief. At worst, I am considered a fascist, bigoted, idiotic, uninformed woman (despite having more education than most people).
Try some of my methods I described in the aforementioned thread. Avoid an adversarial position. Try to get someone else to front your views for you, or at least someone else that will argue with the person you are seeking to target. Rather than explaining your views, don’t explain them. Simply observe, analyze, and learn the views of your target and then think up ways to manipulate those views utilizing the normal plethora of Leftist cues like “white privilege” and various other things.
It is much easier to penetrate the mental shields behind such people if they never realize you are “on the other side”. This takes a certain level of deception and it is cheating, but then again, they aren’t following the rules on rational debate so why should we. Nothing requires us to abide by a set of rules when it favors them over us. Just as nothing requires us to utilize a set of ROE that favors terrorists over our own.
Oh Good Grief.
“Now that we’ve won, we’re all going to work together, and we expect you to as well. Or else. Because now that we’ve won, we’re all in this together. Got it? You’d BETTER GET IT.”
My God, why is the rise of fascism among Democrats so damned creepy?
What do you mean rise? I thought it was always there, just incubating.