Obama’s Automatons
Watching the latest videos of the mobs obstructing traffic, destroying property, and shouting orchestrated slogans liked robots, it occurred to me that we err in allowing them to dictate how we refer to them.
In conversation and in print let us name them in honor of the president who has extended his sympathy and given them license, and the party that has used its minions (Acorn and the unions) to feed and cosset them.
The mobs are living manifestations of the president’s ceaseless and irresponsible efforts to foment class warfare. Just listen to them scream invectives against “the rich†and “greedy corporations.â€
In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, his creations should be named accordingly. Barry’s Brawlers, Obama’s Bullies or Hussein’s Hoodlums are possibilities. Something suitably descriptive and creative, but within the bounds of the civil discourse the President, when convenient, likes to preach.
Nov. 1, 2011: Jonathan Westin, organizing director, New York Communities for Change, (formerly ACORN) attends a protest in New York City
Or we could look at the mobocracy as the latest Democrat entitlement program since taxpayers in the afflicted cities will pay millions for cleaning up the mobs’ messes, property destruction, and extra municipal services.
One has to wonder if this is what, in a 2001 radio interview, then Illinois state Senator Obama meant by economic justice and redistributive change?
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How about “Stalin’s useful idiots?”
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That is certainly appropriate but I was hoping to incorporate BHO in the name.
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how about calling the O.W.L. ‘s featherbrains.
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This doesn’t even make any sense. You try to trivialize them and demonize them by giving them these childish names simply because you don’t like them. I feel like I’m reading something my 12 year old cousin would be saying about her classmates.
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Marcia Reply:
November 8th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
You miss the point. I condemn the lawlessness, and the president for instigating class warfare.
History (and Plato) tells us that when democratic systems are overthrown, tyranny is the result. The Bolsheviks overthrew Alexander Kerensky’s Democratic Russian Republic under the banner of “bread, peace and land,†and millions went hungry and got land and peace in the graves the Communists filled. The Nazis overthrew the Weimer Republic by blaming the Jews. Identifying an enemy to stoke up mobs is an old tactic but it works. Now it’s the “the rich.â€
Much is wrong in this nation and there are legitimate grievances aplenty, but the ballot box is the place to make changes, not the streets.
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Trivialize and demonize are two words progressives love to bandy about in high-minded rhetoric. The terms teabaggers, Nazis, and several unprintable terms come to mind when the progressives speak of the conservatives. Are they trivializing or demonizing with such terms? If we are labeling, how about Demobcrats ?
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greg Reply:
November 9th, 2011 at 8:15 am
No I agree that using the term teabaggers is meant to insult the party and is very childish as well. Nazis is a term both sides throw around so often and should not be used other than when describing anyone who does or did support Hitlers beliefs. I never condemn using any such language and I make it known when liberals play the same card. That doesn’t make either side right. If you simply call them by the name they want to be called you might be able to change their mind through reasoning and facts or at least the minds of people on the fence. Would you agree that once you think of someone as not an equal (calling them names) then it eliminates any possibility for civilized debates.
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Name calling never engenders civilized debate but rather causes any potential for debate to degenerate at that point. However, a well-placed barb can cause one to think a bit more. I am curious about your remark, “f you simply call them by the name they want to be called you might be able to change their mind through reasoning and facts or at least the minds of people on the fence. “. What name do you suppose they want to be called? Do you really think you can change their minds by reasoning and facts, or is it possible that there are those who operated only by emotions where no amount of reasoning or fact will matter?
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Name calling never leads to civil debate but rather causes any potential discussion to degenerate. However a well placed barb can cause another to think a bit more. I am curious about your statement,”If you simply call them by the name they want to be called you might be able to change their mind through reasoning and facts or at least the minds of people on the fence. ” What name do you suppose “they” want to be called? Do you really think that minds can be changed by reasoning and facts, or it it possible there are those who operate solely on emotion that no amount of reasoning, logic, or facts can sway? Have you seen any laudable behavior from the OWS crowd? Mobs can overthrow a system by sheer force as the Bolsheviks did but what is the result? Is it something better or tyranny? The OWS group reminds me of the disgruntled students who stormed academia years back and demanded…what?
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