The penetration of the far right into America's minds

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DFW (13,120 posts)

The penetration of the far right into America's minds


 
I was being driven from downtown Dallas to the DFW airport today, and the driver was a perfectly nice guy who had moved down here from Brooklyn a few decades ago. The Dallas traffic will be a mess starting this evening with all living presidents being here for the opening of the Bush Lite Library.

The discussion inevitably got to politics. The driver immediately started in about the "community organizer," and he didn't mean it in a positive way. He meant it in a denigrating tone, just like his interpretation of the word "liberal." he had no earthly clue what a community organizer does, had no idea what the word "liberal" meant, had no idea what the word "conservative" meant.

This guy was well-spoken, maybe in his early sixties, and lived in a solidly middle-class part of Dallas. Yet his vocabulary and comprehension were straight out of Fox "News." This was EXTREMELY disturbing. We all know that Fox Noise panders to the under-educated and intellectually lazy, and is comfort food to selfish billionaires. But when an educated New Yorker spouts their garbage as his understanding of the way the world is, it is disconcerting. If these people are reasonably intelligent, reasonably well-spoken, and yet intellectually lazy enough to let Frank Luntz and Sean Hannity do their thinking for them, what has our electorate become? I know, I know, Obama WAS re-elected, and the Senate stayed Democratic, but in places like Texas, which we hope to turn blue some time during my lifetime, especially in a reasonably progressive urban place like Dallas, it is disturbing to hear people spout this garbage when they have not only every chance to know better, but every personal incentive to know better.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1251301449

Hey DUmmy, just because you let Maddow, and John Stewart do your thinking for you, does not mean that we in turn let Fox News do our thinking.
You call us intellectually lazy yet you are the idiots who scream "racist" every time we dare criticize your preezy. Instead of trying to argue against what we say you just throw down the race card and change the debate to racism.

Zoeisright (7,682 posts)
2. The cabbie doesn't sound much like an educated anything.

Anyone who listens, slack-jawed, to Faux Noise is uneducated, lazy, and unintelligent. He also sounds like a complete bigot.

And you MSNBC viewers are all winners, in the Charlie Sheen sense of the word.

IrishAyes (684 posts)
7. Conservatives don't know

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And worse yet, don't want to know anything about reality. I don't think the level of education figures into it at all. They're too besotted with fear driven hate.

This morning I sat in the hospital waiting room with several other people there to get blood work drawn. One of them I knew to be a retired nurse, who supposedly got her degree somewhere other than the inside of a Cracker Jack box. The tv was on, thankfully to CNN at least, not Fox Noise, and the subject was still the Boston bombers. When the two brothers' pictures came up, this retired nurse snarled, "... and one of 'em was a cop, too. Just goes to show you can't trust inny of these furriners. Ought not to let 'em be cops or innything else!"

At first my jaw dropped open, and then a correction of her mistake leapt to my lips, but then I slowly recovered w/o a single word. Fortunately several of the other people were rolling their eyes and the others suddenly showed a rabid gleam that made me wonder why bother just before my blood pressure gets taken. It was a huge row waiting to happen, and a mere correction of facts no matter how sweetly offered would've touched off a conflagration. Maybe Limpy told them that version of the story, and if so Jesus Christ himself couldn't convince them otherwise.

So I left the waiting area in silence for the first time to get my blood work and blood pressure done. Normally I pipe right up when somebody says something that crazy. So I don't know if I'm getting too old and lazy to jump into every fight I see coming anymore, or whether I'm learning to choose my battles more carefully. Before, if there was any kind of argument going on, you'd find me in the middle of it.

But then I get to thinking about my dad's favorite old saw, "Only a jackass answers every donkey that brays."

As usual they project their own failings on us.
They say we don't know anything about reality, when it is clear by the crap they say they are not grounded in reality, they are grounded in a bunch of feel good BS that never solves any problems and just makes things worse and worse.

IrishAyes (684 posts)
8. I can tell you something else, too

The religious right sees red when you say or wear a tee shirt announcing "Jesus Was A Community Organizer!" They seem to think he was a Kock Bros. prototype or something Randian.

 
I can't find one time that Jesus said anything about taking money from other people and doling it out like candy. He did say that we should reach in to our own pockets and help people.

[thundley4]

This guy was well-spoken, maybe in his early sixties, and lived in a solidly middle-class part of Dallas.

I always ask cab drivers where they live and they usually take me on a tour of their neighborhood on the way to my destination.  Some bus drivers will do the same if you ask them real nicely.

[Duke Nukum]

DUmmies cannot tell the difference between bearded white males:Jesus is Karl Marx is Santa Clause.

[Undies]

Most DFW cabs reek of camel urine.  

[Firekrakka]

The penetration of the far right into America's minds

Sounds like another  story.

[blitzkrieg_17]

So no one called out this lame-@ss bouncy?

[franksolich]

So no one called out this lame-@ss bouncy?

That's just the way Marc, a child of privilege, is.

He lives in Germany with his suitably formidable Teutonic frau, but works for a rare-and-antique-coin auction house, which actually is pretty good; if one's into old coins, this is a place to check out, and it's utterly respectable.

But that's his money-making occupation; his hobby is being photographed with prominent Democrats with whom he alleges to be on a first name basis.  However, his claim that he knows some ancient retired woman reporter, someone who went to school with Hedda Hopper or something, is true.

However, now at the age of 60, his bon vivant lifestyle is eroding him.

[Skul]

Odd, very odd indeed.
Nowhere did DUmbF***Wad say the driver admitted to listening to Fox.
He only said he "thought" he did.
Primitives run with it. 

[JohnnyReb]

Now that's just funny. Yes, the uneducated are working so the educated don't have too.

[Karin]

This was EXTREMELY disturbing... blah blah blah...  it is disconcerting.

I am glad that you were discombobulated.  If this story is true, DFW, doesn't it show you that there exists out there, a different point of view other than your fever swamp bubble at the DU?  If it doesn't show you that, isn't that intellectually lazy? 

[Splashdown]

I am glad that you were discombobulated.  If this story is true, DFW, doesn't it show you that there exists out there, a different point of view other than your fever swamp bubble at the DU?  If it doesn't show you that, isn't that intellectually lazy? 

Karin, I think you hit on the truly scary part of DU. They refuse to see that there may be opposing viewpoints. And they're the "open-minded" ones

[USA4ME]

Odd, very odd indeed.
Nowhere did DUmbF***Wad say the driver admitted to listening to Fox.
He only said he "thought" he did.
Primitives run with it.  

I've noticed that, too.  They claim to be able to spot the Fox News and Rush Limbaugh "talking points" while claiming they never listen to them.  How's that work?

It's like when PhDD was here.  The whole attack was based on false stereotypes of what they tell themselves is true about conservatives/Republicans.  Therefore, with their counter tactics predicated upon inaccurate information, they are surprised when it falls apart. Their mental illness won't permit them to believe anything other than what they've been programmed to believe, which results in them finding themselves in the poor house angry at the world because the rich aren't paying enough taxes.

Vicious cycle. Their own fault.

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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

DFW (13,120 posts)

The penetration of the far right into America's minds

I prefer the term "skull ****ing."

[Splashdown]

I prefer the term "skull ****ing."

  

[marv]

IrishAyes (684 posts)
But then I get to thinking about my dad's favorite old saw, "Only a jackass answers every donkey that brays."

Did he really mean to say that?

[Vagabond]

IrishAyes (684 posts)
8. I can tell you something else, too

The religious right sees red when you say or wear a tee shirt announcing "Jesus Was A Community Organizer!" They seem to think he was a Kock Bros. prototype or something Randian.

I still wonder what "community organizer" means in the DUmmies language.  A community organizer, logically, accomplishes some postive good for the community.  The guy who organizes and runs the neighborhood watch, the woman who gets the funds and neighbors together to build a community playground, and the guy who organizes a neighborhood beautification drive planting trees and flowers are all community orgazizers when I think of the subject.

Did Barry organize a neighborhood watch?  Did he plant anything, or place a playground?  Not that I can find.  The community he afflicted seemed worse for the wear when he left.

[Firekrakka]

He was too busy at gay bars and bathhouses namely Man's Country.

[Undies]

IrishAyes (684 posts)
8. I can tell you something else, too

The religious right sees red when you say or wear a tee shirt announcing "Jesus Was A Community Organizer!" They seem to think he was a Kock Bros. prototype or something Randian.

Why would I care what shirt some mindless DUmbass wears?  See red?  No, feel pity.

It is my observation that the Jesus Christ I know would be a lot closer in philosophy to Ayn Rand and the Koch brothers than He would be to some socialist scum like the citizens of DemocratUnderground.com or the current White House.

[Dori]

Did Barry organize a neighborhood watch?  Did he plant anything, or place a playground?  Not that I can find.  The community he afflicted seemed worse for the wear when he left.

My thoughts also.  Obama's community is one of the worst in the country. The only thing he was organizing there was fund raisers for his political career.

[jukin]

Go to the southside of Chicago and see what 0bama accomplished while community organizing. Murder rate is up 5 times, poverty rate is triple, schools are far worse, but himself and  a lot of his friends got very rich. The community would have been far better off if 0bama had never done a thing there.

In my book, community organizer means liar, exploiter, and thief.

[Dori]

In my book, community organizer means liar, exploiter, and thief.

Perfect description of his Presidency too.

[Firekrakka]

Go to the southside of Chicago and see what 0bama accomplished while community organizing. Murder rate is up 5 times, poverty rate is triple, schools are far worse, but himself and  a lot of his friends got very rich. The community would have been far better off if 0bama had never done a thing there.

In my book, community organizer means liar, exploiter, and thief.

Exactly. Even Lincoln Park is turning to shit.

[thundley4]

I still wonder what "community organizer" means in the DUmmies language.  A community organizer, logically, accomplishes some postive good for the community.  The guy who organizes and runs the neighborhood watch, the woman who gets the funds and neighbors together to build a community playground, and the guy who organizes a neighborhood beautification drive planting trees and flowers are all community orgazizers when I think of the subject.

Did Barry organize a neighborhood watch?  Did he plant anything, or place a playground?  Not that I can find.  The community he afflicted seemed worse for the wear when he left.

Why yes Barry did accomplish something as a community organizer.

ENGLEWOOD IS EYED FOR BOTANICAL GARDEN
Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: Jan 15, 2000. pg. 5

A group of politicians, school administrators and community activists unveiled a plan Friday for a $1.1 million botanical garden in the city's Englewood neighborhood.

The proposal calls for a walk beneath the "L" tracks on Princeton Avenue, from 59th Place to 62nd Place. Backers said they hope it will help spur redevelopment in the impoverished area, boost neighborhood pride and soften the impact of traffic and pollution from the nearby Dan Ryan Expressway.

State Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago) said he planned to seek state funding for the effort and estimated that ground could be broken in early 2001.

The proposed garden also would include a gazebo, a parrot sanctuary and a walk of fame.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/09/07/barack-obamas-1-1-million-botanical-garden-er-100-000-gazebo

The amazing $100,000 gazebo.

[Ballygrl]

The New Yorker who relocated is an idiot? really? ever think he saw the destruction that the left has caused and he wanted a better life? Who's smarter, people that stay in the s**thole known as California? or those who leave it?

[Dori]

State trying to recover $100,000 grant for failed Englewood garden

http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/17254303-452/state-trying-to-recover-100000-grant-for-failed-englewood-garden.html

But by the time Obama first ran for president in 2008, the site had become overrun with weeds and garbage, the Chicago Sun-Times reported then.

The sign of things to come?