I Probably Should Translate this Fascist Crap Back Into the Original German
Some wannabe politburo member has finally figured out how to deal with those “stupid independent voters” who keep voting against Comrade Hussein and the Party’s desires, and the solution is, as is always the case with totalitarians, brainwashing or, to use the original term, Gleichschaltung.
As Judis shows, the only true independents are white working-class men and women (actually, more the latter than the former) who “are susceptible to populist appeals” against “special interests” that “can include business as well as government.”
Ah, those capitalist running dog lackey kulaks who dare question, *gasp!*, the Almighty and All-Knowing Government.
But, like many a political reporter, Judis focuses more on the messages politicians send out than on the factors that determine how these messages are received. His observations could use a bit less rhetoric and a bit more sociology. Specifically, he neglects one of the main reasons white Americans who lack a college education and make only a modest income now tilt toward Republicans and their right-wing populist talk:
Translation: “Only dumb people vote for Republicans.” But none dare call it elitist or condescending. It’s funny how the self-appointed “champions for the little man” never fail to show a bottomless derision for those “little men” they claim to champion.
But the solution is clear: Instead of offering something that those dumb fools might actually support, they must be Gleichgeschaltet:
Few belong to an institution that counters those opinions.
Where are the brownshirts and the re-education camps when you really need them?During the campaign, an unemployed Ohio steelworker told The New York Times, “We heard everything was going to change, but there hasn’t been much change and the unemployment is still bad and the area we live in is still really depressed.”
Yes, Obama should have made a better attempt to explain to people like this steelworker how the financial crisis occurred and how health care reform will help to create a more decent, as well as more efficient, society.
Actually, what a real leader with genuine and achievable ideas would have done would be to offer reforms that actually accomplished those lofty goals rather than falling back on the tried-and-failed method of leftists throughout history: Doing absolutely nothing to help while constantly promising that Nirvana is “just around the corner” after the next five year plan.
Achieving results is unimportant. Convincing the masses, through endless lectures from on high (and nobody can deny that King Hussein has spent more time talking about how good it’s going to be than any past president) is all that matters. Well, that and making the rubes upon whom the ruling class’ continued employment believe in the claptrap.
But, if that unemployed Ohioan belonged to a vibrant, powerful labor union, he might be able to see himself as a maker of change, instead of its victim—and thus absorb Obama’s message differently.
“If only that unemployed guy still waiting for the promised Age of Skittle-Shitting Unicorns could be coerced into ‘joining’ an organization devoted solely to indoctrinating him into believing that up is down, left is right and the Dallas Cowboys is a great football team, then he might actually buy the shit King Hussein and his regime is selling.”
White men and women who do belong to unions are still far more likely to support progressive ideas on a variety of issues and to vote for Democrats than are their non-union counterparts. In 2010, white voters who lack a college degree but do have a union member in their households voted for Obama’s party by 24 percent more than did their non-union counterparts.
If ever there was an argument in favor of abolishing those re-education camps whose sole purpose is to make people believe that a system of government that hasn’t once in the history of mankind produced anything worth having, then that would be it.
Forget about addressing the actual problems of the unemployed as in “creating an environment in which they’re likely become employed again”, it’s all about making them think that they’re not being screwed seven ways from Sunday.
Of course, they’ll still be unemployed, but that’s irrelevant.
To liberals, results don’t matter. Perception is all. And what better instrument for widespread indoctrination than the wholly owned subsidiaries of the National Socialist Democrat Workers’ Party?
Don’t teach the hungry how to fish, instead spend all of our resources convincing them that food is overrated anyway.
Call us a bitter clinger, but when we’ve found ourselves unemployed we were one heck of a lot more interested in establishing a paycheck than listening to overpaid, underworked career politicians yakking about how good it was going to be. The latter doesn’t put food on the table.
Thatisall.
Tags: Liberal Fascism, Liberal Propaganda, Return to the 30s, Unions | 
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Well, if you weren’t so STUPID and uneducated, you would see that all we have to do is eliminate twenty or thirty million regressive, evil conservatives, and you can have all their stuff!
So being a member of a “vibrant, powerful labor union” is now the equivalent of a doctorate degree to these fucking
progressiveregressive morons? (Since only “highly-intelligent, nuanced elites” can “absorb His Wholly Emptiness’ bullshit.) Sweet. Now we can save all of that grant money and tell the assnuggets to simply go join a union instead of wasting 8-12 years pissing away our money being indoctrinated into good little Maoists & Marxists.“Few belong to an institution that counters those beliefs”
I had a different take on that, My Liege … I read that not so much as a call to put us all in camps, but more of the usual screaming lefty lie that the media is all right wing with few exceptions. Reporters, and especially most political reporters, have a decidedly leftish bent to them. They want to portray themselves as the oppressed few standing against the ‘right wing/fascist/whatever you want to call it juggernaut that controls our lives’
I may be completely wrong on that but that was my read on it.
I would happily give Mr Judis his 30 pieces of sliver if he would just go away.
I think the problem is more complex than left versus right. Stating that this is a left versus right issue oversimplifies the problem. The media is not so much left or right as it is pro government expansion. This is an issue of personal liberty versus statism. There is rightist and leftist stateism. The only difference between the two is what they think we should be wasting our tax dollars on. The left statist believe we should waste it on welfare and unions while the right statist believes we should waste it on subsidizing failed industries and banks rather than letting them fail and letting the free market take it’s natural course.
This is a debate of individualism vs Govt control rather than a simple matter of left vs right. The left vs right debate is only a smokescreen to keep us from seeing how badly we are getting fucked.
Palin/Paul 2012.
If your looking for a good organization for the promotion of liberty and limited government I would suggest the Campaign for Liberty. They publish a great newsletter and they fight hard for the taxpayer. Plus they are a great alternative to the biased major news networks. Check em out sometime and read afew of their articles. You may be surprised just how much you agree.
OK, so what union is an unemployed guy going to belong to? I suppose Socialist International will have him.
Gleichschaltung–das ist das Wort, mein Kaiser!
What?
The?
FUCK???
I don’t have a college degree. I guess that makes me a stupid-ass that votes Republican cause I’m some sort of moron. The bad kind, not the AoSHQ kind, that is.
All the fuckwits that got us into this mess have high-falutin’ degrees from them high-powered fancy uny-versities and I don’t see how it’s helped. Hell, I could probably do a better job if I wasn’t afraid of the operations it would take to be a Washington insider.
I’m thinking it would really hurt to have your brain removed, cut in half, and then shoved up your ass.
What good is a college degree when we’re letting people graduate high school illiterate?
Literacy should be an exit requirement for elementary school.