Demonizing Their Opponents

One of the memes on this blog is that the left doesn't debate their opponents, they demonize them. And here is Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters making my point . . . literally.



(H/T Bluegrass Pundit)

Dr. Sanity has a great post up on the left's methods of argument and psychological denial. It is well worth a read.

The left is a wasteland of vacuity that stands today at the apogee of their power. If the U.S. is to survive, they need to be beaten into the dustbin of history.

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An Adult Conversation On Medicare?

This ad really sums up everything about the left's style of argument. One, it is a complete lie as, under Ryan's plan, senior's Medicare would remain untouched. Two, it is designed to appeal wholly to emotion rather than make any sort of intellectually honest argument. Three, it is designed to demonize the right for making any sort of serous effort to reform Medicare. When the left calls for an adult conversation, what they are really asking is that the right shut up and not push back against their scurrilous attacks. They could care less about anything other than gaining political power, whatever the cost to our nation. Worthless scum.

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The Liberal Idea Machine

The Agenda Project’s goal is to build a powerful, intelligent, well-connected political movement capable of identifying and advancing rational, effective ideas in the public debate and in so doing ensure our country’s enduring success.

Mission Statement of the liberal Agenda Project

The latest "intelligent, rational and effective idea" from the Agenda Project to advance public debate?

(H/T Another Black Conservative). Isn't that pithy. They must be ivy league grads.

This is part for the course for our modern left. Demonizing and dismissing out of hand the arguments of their opponents is their only strategy. The Tea Party challenges Obama's profligate spending and vast new statist programs - the left plays the race card. State that Obamacare's mandate is a tax, utterly ridiculous says Obama. Raise ethics charges against Maxine Waters, it's racism. Challenge the building of the Ground Zero mosque - religious bigotry, says Mayor Bloomberg. Paul Ryan's ideas to bring us back to fiscal sanity - flim flam says Paul Krugman. Indeed, as to the last example, WSJ recently ran an article on how Krugman is merely one of many on the far left who would like to see Paul Ryan disappear without having to address the substance of his arguments.

We have seen this same meme played out hundreds of thousands of times over the past decades. Indeed, the same Democrats who created the massive housing bubble and who destroyed our credit system in the process did so on the grounds that any challenge thereto was racist.

And now with November fast approaching, it's down to the left's final argument, f*** tea. These people are as intellectualy dishonest as they are intellectualy bankrupt.

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Wall Street, A Billion Dollar Fraud & The Mortgage Meltdown

I have long been a defender of Wall St. against charges that it was the primary cause of our current economic troubles. Obama's demonization of "greedy" Wall St. is designed both to stoke populist anger and to hide the heavy hand of Democrat's race based social engineering - in which Obama took part - that is the real proximate cause of our current fiscal crisis. Moreover, I believe Obama's proposed changes to the financial regulations are not only unnecessary, but on at least several levels, deeply counterproductive (see here and here).

That said, one thing that I do support is much stronger penalties for white collar crime. For example, if the accusations in this SEC Complaint of a billion dollar fraud are true, than Goldman Sachs should be severly punished and its employee, Mr. Fabrice Tourre, locked up and the key thrown away. Do read the SEC Compalint, as it is a window into the derivatives market, a snapshot of the relationship between Wall St. and the mortgage meltdown, and a road map to a billion dollar fraud.

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