Personally, I’ve never understood how things get so turned around and how some people become masters of the turnaround while others are ever the victims of it. To me it’s an enigmatic phenomenon. I think it involves the ability to lie and stand by your lies no matter what. It also involves being able to speak loudly, deflect scrutiny and never admit culpability in anything. It also involves a big sense of self-righteousness and the assumption of having the moral high ground.
Maybe it’s kind of like s/he who screams the loudest and the longest gets stuff turned around the way s/he wants it. Then the rest of us are perpetrators, ever the culprits.
All together, the Republicans have a bad name. This was true before Trump, and Trump, no matter what you think of him, is categorized by it. They, the Republicans, are against the little people, against the minorities and only for big business, Wall Street and those big shots.
That’s what the Democrats would have us believe. They say it every chance they get. But the facts don’t bear that out. The facts show that Democrats get an overwhelming majority of minority votes, but their policies have overwhelmingly failed the minority community. Democrats have singlehandedly run the inner cities for more than half a century. In those inner-city communities, education is failing, unemployment far exceeds the national rate, crime rates far exceed the national average, drug abuse and poverty abound.
So what have the Democrats done? Really, they’ve done just about nothing but exploit the minority community by stealing what they can from it including its vote, and they’ve done this by consistently branding Republicans as racists, sexists and homophobes and blaming them for their own failure.
Spoken about here lots of times, the war on poverty illustrates the point. Begun in the 1960s by Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic president, and continually supported by Democrats like Teddy Kennedy (remember Chappaquiddick?), twenty three trillion dollars later the poverty rate in America has not significantly changed. Yet if any Republicans suggest we revert to workfare to reduce the welfare rolls, they are branded racist. Ironically, Bill Clinton did this during his presidency with great success. Great success means welfare rolls were reduced, unemployment was reduced, more people worked and rose from poverty to the middle class. They did this with dignity and established independence.
Even the suggestion by Republicans that able-bodied people work is met by Democratic derision. Similarly, while economic studies show that raising the minimum wage, as the Democrats are pushing, will increase unemployment in the very community they allegedly want to help, when Republicans cite this fact and oppose the idea, they are branded as racists: the turnaround.
And on and on. If the Republicans fight to enforce immigration laws and end sanctuary cities, they are, you guessed it, racists. If they don’t want to fund Planned Parenthood they are sexist. The turnaround! Since when was it a bad thing to enforce our laws or speak your conscience in America? And that’s being kind to Planned Parenthood.
The Turnaround is a sinister technique. It stifles and suppresses new ideas and alternative solutions and it all too often maintains a status quo which needs to be changed.
We used to say “the pot calling the kettle black,” which is a good start at examining the Democratic mastery of The Turnaround. We should not only follow the money (a previous blog entry here), but we should look at who’s calling who what.
In Shakespeare the truth often comes from the clowns, the jesters and the blind. Even if you feel that way about a candidate, it doesn’t mean s/he doesn’t speak truth at times.
Maybe The Turnaround is suppressing the truth and not reflecting it.
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Politicians are masters at subterfuge. After we look at them and see how truly shameful they should feel, we must look at ourselves. We should be ashamed of ourselves because we keep electing them, over and over and over again. They are despicable, hypocrites all. They are dishonest, liars all. Yes all of them. There’s not a single one who hasn’t lied to the American public. Some of them are simply more brazen about it than others and all of them defend their lying by subterfuge, with the cheapest of rhetorical techniques: look at what s/he did, said, etc.
What we, the American people, have forgotten is to look into things, to check things out, to see what’s really going on and who’s really who or what’s really what.
This year’s presidential election is very important. The next president will pick at least one Supreme Court Justice, but the one picked will break the four-four court we have now. Very likely, if Hillary wins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will retire and the court will go to six-three for the libs. That would insure their imposing their doctrines on the American people for decades to come. No longer would there remain even a pretense of an unbiased, apolitical court whose sole purpose is to decide the constitutionality of the issues it hears. Instead, the libs will push the court to new and unprecedented extremes, to making decisions far beyond rulings on constitutionality. This would be unfortunate.
It’s hard to believe that Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and the rest of the big-wig Elephants, even Mitt Romney, who has acted despicably, don’t see this. So if they were one little bit the ideologues they claim to be, they would do what they could to prevent a Donkey win. So why don’t they? Follow the money!
Next is the media. Jorge Ramos’ anti-Trump position? Check out who the owner of Univision is and the donations he’s given to the Clinton foundation and Hillary’s campaign. That’s between 10 and 25 million to the former and the 100K max to the latter. Follow the money!
Similarly, check out the owners of The New York Times and Washington Post to see where their political bents are and you’ll see why the papers are biased. Follow the money!
GE was in the White House early on in the Obama first term, it’s CEO appointed to Obama’s energy commission. At that time, GE scored major sweetheart deals, on lightbulbs, on solar stuff, with China. GE then owned NBC. NBC, MSNBC et al. supported, strongly supported, overwhelmingly supported and continually support… Follow the money!
Clinton says she will strongly back Israel. But George Soros, who has spent millions of dollars personally attempting to bring about Israel’s demise, has donated countless millions to the DNC, to Hillary superpacs and to her campaign as well. He’s known to have given 8 million outright. He’s spearheaded the raising of 100 million more, is the person behind Move-On.org., and he’s also linked by the CIA to a terrorist bombing in Czechoslovakia. Soros strongly supported and financed Obama. Look at Obama’s actions toward Israel. Imagine what Clinton’s position on Israel and other matters will really be. Follow the money!
This election is too important to vote on by sound bite or biased media coverage. Really, follow the money. See who’s doing what behind the scenes and why. The education departments throughout the country pride themselves on teaching students how to reason. Avoid the false, subterfuge argument meant deflect responsibility for actions. Skip the false labels one side tries to pin on the other. Follow the money to see what’s true and what isn’t. Money doesn’t lie. People lie about money, about where they get it from. Behind the money and all the rhetoric there are facts to be seen. Follow the money trails to the facts.
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