http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002867307More of my ongoing Quixotic quest to find some new, unrealized, talent from the island of misfits.
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 07:26 AM
Tennessee Gal (4,696 posts)
What it takes to be a Republican: Incompetent Thinking
As opposed to what it takes to be a liberal thinker, which is conniving, murdering, aborting, and slaving.
No matter the issue Republicans are incompetent thinkers.
No matter the issue, liberals will try to enslave or murder somebody.
Just one example: They are convinced that tax cuts for the wealthy will stimulate the economy and create jobs. But that is based on party indoctrination, not evidence.
Liberals are convinced that taxing the wealthy will pay for the fantasy social prescriptions based, not on evidence, but their own fevered imagination.
And when the evidence tells them they are wrong they will rationalize or lie because of their party indoctrination. Presenting totally irrational thinking to the public does not bother them at all. In fact, they have been trained to "frame" issues in such a way as to convince the public that their positions have merit. These thoughts and actions come from devotion to party positions without a basis in fact. Their devotion is so great that even the hardest of evidence proving them wrong can be ignored or somehow rationalized.
Wipe the drool off your chin. By the way, that's a mirror you are staring at.
They haven't arrived at their beliefs overnight. They have come to them over a period of time with gradually escalated commitments until they seem to have reached a fever pitch. Their current commitment has escalated to the point of irrationality and it is endangering the future stability of this country.
Yeah, yeah. We don't support enslaving the "rich" was seems to be a lower bar by the day so we're evil. We don't support murder of unborn black children, so that makes us misogynist racists. Democrats, proudly holding the same aristocratic southern planter traditions for over 150 years.
Republicans fall into these two categories:
Democrats fall into these two categories:
People who know what they are doing is wrong and don't care.
Sleazeballs who votes himself and his constituents things that have no use, see John Murtha International Airport.
People who know what they are doing is wrong, but they have such contempt for the rest of us that it doesn't make them the slightest bit uncomfortable attempting to con us.
and the useful idiots that vote for the sleazeball.
Response to Tennessee Gal (Original post)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 07:32 AM
CBHagman (13,062 posts)
1. Incompetence in practice, too.
I'm always astonished that the media more often than not accepts the claim that Republicans are strong on defense, foreign policy, and fiscal matters. Yeah, maybe that's why they leave deficits and debt in their wake, and never-ending wars, etc.
What has the Boy Blunder done while in office?
Response to CBHagman (Reply #1)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 07:41 AM
Tennessee Gal (4,696 posts)
2. Most of the media is complicit.
Their lack of informed questioning and reporting is a very big part of the problem.
The average journalist voted enthusastically for Obama in 2008, DUmmie.
Response to Tennessee Gal (Reply #2)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 07:55 AM
Scootaloo (1,281 posts)
3. Why report when you can just fake a debate?
Saves you the trouble of doing the work, throws the issues out there anyway, and provides airtime for your advertisers just the same. Especially when there are like seven 24/7 news channels that need all that padding.
Of course in order to have "debate," you need two things; controversy and equality on each side. So the media fakes both. First the controversy; if one dude out of a million disagrees, then that's all you need to claim there is "controversy" (See; Climate change.) And then you have for create this narrative that this one dude who's screaming into the camera with a colander on his head is in some way equal to the "expert" from the "otherside" that you have on.
You see the same basic principle in the media's need for neck-and-neck horserace elections.
That cinches it doesn't. Galileo was one dude out of a million that thought the Earth orbited the sun. Clearly he was a deluded fool and possibly posessed by demons. /DUmmiemode.
Response to Scootaloo (Reply #3)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 08:01 AM
Tennessee Gal (4,696 posts)
4. Yes, they think it is the only way they have of maintaining viewership.
That gives them a motive to promote the fallacies as fact.
However, I can't help but think that they could maintain or even grow their ratings by calling out the lies by presenting facts.
On the other hand, they have financial reasons for not doing that. Republicans give them what they want in allowing them to skirt rules. Or Republicans will just change the rules to suit their needs.
It's just so hard when you only control 90% of the media. That other 10% should be silenced.
Response to Tennessee Gal (Original post)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 08:05 AM
JHB (15,489 posts)
5. I think there's also another category: With Kaleidescope Eyes
WKEs operate under the influence of the other two, having become addicted to an instant beverage mix spiked with some either really, really good or really really bad shit.
Says the guy on the site that has threads discussing how to avoid pissing hot on a urinalysis.
