When I wander in the fields and groves of the internet,
listening to the liberals and conservatives, Jesus people and atheists, it
becomes more and more obvious that the liberals lose battles for a good reason:
they don’t know who the real enemy is.
Visit a liberal political website, and you will see the
liberals totally dazzled by the Wingnut Of The Day, and whatever crazy thing
they said. Ted Nugent goes off on guns, Palin goes off on Obamacare, the
Westboro crazies launch another crazy protest, and every liberal in cyberspace
runs after them, pointing and yelling and screaming.
Even though the clowns like Palin and the Nuge and Allen
West and Ann Coulter are, by a mile, the least important people in our
political life. No one takes them seriously, people!
Liberals can’t win unless they know the enemy. More
specifically, they can’t win unless they know who the most dangerous enemies
are. Just as, if you’re playing the Miami Heat, you better have a plan for
defending that Lebron guy.
So who are our most dangerous enemies?
NUMBER ONE are the conservatives who prevent liberals
from even functioning in government: the state-level legislators and governors
who gerrymander House seats and suppress the minority vote, and the
Congressional Republicans who block liberal legislation and nominees. No matter
how many votes Democrats actually get, no matter how often they win, these
conservative officials ensure that the liberals never actually get to move the
country in the right direction – and then blame the liberals for the lack of
progress. And liberals like Reid and Obama let them get away with it, because
they lack the stomach, and the tactical ability, to fight these guys. Leading
this group are guys like McConnell, and governors like Kasich and Walker.
Also in this top group are the conservatives on the
Supreme Court. While you were all celebrating their DOMA ruling you missed the
fact that they just allowed the South to bring back Jim Crow voting laws. Oops!
Failure to focus!
NUMBER TWO, second-most dangerous, are the money boys.
The new wave of fake grassroots groups run by Rove and Dick Armey, and their
ultimate paymasters: Big Oil, big banks, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big
Tobacco, and of course their lobbyists.
NUMBER THREE are the propagandists. And within this
group, there are many levels. Most dangerous of all is ALEC, the American
Legislative Exchange Council, because they are selling their toxic ideas
directly to toxic legislators, sometimes even writing the legislation for them.
After them are the big idea-mongers: Murdoch’s Fox/Journal empire, and Rush Limbaugh
who manages to get into everyone’s car radio every afternoon. Below them, less
important, are the talking heads like John McCain and John Bolton, because
nobody takes shows like Meet The Press seriously anymore, because the
lamentably lazy mainstream media has totally bought into the toxic notion that
both parties are equally culpable for the nation’s woes. And at the bottom are
the nutfudge conservative sites like Breitbart, Newsmax, Drudge, World Net
Daily, the Washington Examiner, and the rightwing think tanks: the only reason
to keep an eye on them, is that rightwing nutjobs are going to be quoting these
whackaloons in the websites we all visit.
This group also includes single-issue propagandists, and
again some are more important than others. The most dangerous is likely to be
True The Vote, because their efforts to suppress liberal voting are a direct
threat to democracy itself. After them are the churches who can whip up
millions of anti-gay and anti-woman votes, and to a lesser extent their allies
like the Family Research Council. And of course the NRA which still has
impressive muscle, and then Grover Norquist who no longer controls Congressmen
the way he used to, and people like scandal-hunters Judicial Watch, who seemed
to have lost heart when they realized that the Obama administration is the most
honest presidential team in the last century.
NUMBER FOUR, the least important, the pathetic
attention-junkie circus clowns. The Westboro Baptist Church, Sarah Palin, Allen
West, Louis Gohmert, Ted Nugent, Anne Coulter, Glenn Beck. Nobody with an IQ
above room temperature takes them seriously. However, they are dangerous
because they distract you liberals from what the more dangerous conservatives
are up to. While the bunch of you are ejaculating alarums over the latest
racist screed from some maniac like Louis Gohmert or Nugent or Steve King, the
real damage is going on in the background – McConnell blocking a good nominee
for the NLRB, Rick Perry signing a Voter ID law, the banking lobby watering
down a financial regulation bill, ALEC writing a new anti-abortion law.
So stop focusing on the easy targets, the carnival
clowns, and focus on the guys who are actually destroying democracy, taking
away our right to vote, gerrymandering Congress so that even when we win we
lose, preventing the president from passing laws or even cleaning up Republican
messes, and trashing the Constitution.
Focus! Focus! Focus! Attack the enemy that is most
dangerous, not the one that attracts everybody’s attention! IT’S CALLED A
DIVERSION.
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