Today Congress reaffirmed that this country's motto is "In God We Trust." Isn't that already our motto? Don't we need jobs more than reaffirming what already exists and isn't being challenged?
See, that's what they do: ("They" being the ones who are always telling you what a real American is) They tell the gullible portion of this country that there's a threat to America, even when no such threat exists. It's like these things I see shared on Facebook all the time about supporting the troops and that far too many people don't. You don't know a soul who doesn't support the troops; no one does. But we hear it all the time. It's a divide and conquer tactic. "Those liberals out there are trying to take your guns (while gun ownership and ease of ownership continue to rise); they're trying to take God out of the motto; they don't support the troops." If they don't create an enemy, then even the reasonable people on their side of the aisle will have time to start questioning some of the things their side stands for.
It's all class warfare. They're the ones who are out their echoing that the Occupy Movement is using class warfare, when in fact it's a retaliation to policies of the right that have created class warfare against the middle class. But if you tell your gullibles that the Occupy people are trying to steal from hard working people, you distract them from the truth. It's been a very successful tactic by the likes of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, et al, for years; tell conservatives what liberals think and want and stand for instead of asking one yourself. When's the last time you, Mr. and Mrs. Conservative, asked a liberal what they stand for? Try it, you're very likely to get a big surprise. We stand for the same things a lot more than they want to you realize.
So the next time you start to nod your head in agreement when someone suggests to you that there are people who don't support the troops, who use their welfare checks to buy crack, etc, ask yourself if you know anyone that that's true about.
UPDATE: This Daily Show clip from November 3rd fits perfectly, plus as always it's funny as hell.
2 comments:
Good points. I don't know a single person on welfare that's buying crack or other drugs. The ones I know would rather get back to work.
Its called deflection, instead of having ideas, criticize others for theirs- atleast you are saying something- Ask about why the general public needs assult rifles and the deflected comment will be because the left is tryint to take away your liberty or right to own a rifle- DEFLECTION, they never answer why someone would need an assult rifle. And I am not an anti gun person but I am anti assult rifles that serve no other purpose than to kill masses of people.
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