I find it amazing that the left is not willing to call people islamic "terrorists" but they're more than willing to compare honest law abiding citizens who disagree with their political views terrorists. They throw this word around like it was a weapon. They use the term to denigrate good people simply because they disagree with them, yet they are not willing to use the term with people who deserve it.
This is way over the top and these people ought to be told to get a clue. Instead of the media doing everything they can to be inflammatory toward our own representatives and try to cause outbreaks of revolution at every turn maybe they should start thinking like Americans and talking like Americans.
They are more eager to criticize Americans than people who really deserve their criticism. They are more than eager to criticize Tea Party people as violent, and terrorists and Nazis, yet they are invariably the ones using the terms and being violent.
Their hypocrisy, extremism, and propaganda are so apparent that people are hardly watching or listening to them any more which only seems to cause them to be more extreme with each appearance.
The left seems willing to call almost anyone except Muslims terrorists. I for one find this astounding. Clearly to the left the term terrorist is simply a convenient word that is meant to be used as a weapon against those you don't like. It's meant to silence people. It's meant to put them in their place. It's meant to alienate them from others who might otherwise listen to them and even join their views.
It is, however, rarely used to describe those who are true terrorist, which is almost always the Muslims. Of course the fact that this term is only used to describe those the left considers enemies, it does make you wonder what they think of Muslim terrorists? Do they consider them friends or at least as non-threats? When people need to use other terms for things than those that actually apply it should always cause you to wonder what their motivation is. It should cause you to wonder if they actually know how words should be used. But, more than anything it should cause you to wonder whether you ought to trust the people using those terms incorrectly.
The representatives and media using these kinds of tactics seem to have only two goals in mind, confusion and turning people on each other. Both of these things are very serious and show at their heart that these people have another agenda than the strengthening of America.
No one wants to say it, but there is an unfortunate and indeed severe leaning in our nation toward communism and socialism. Even our present stands strongly behind this kind of government philosophy. Where at one time it would have caused a great deal of concern now it hardly raises and eyebrow. It is clear that even with the ambivalence toward these political ideologies in our nation they are still afraid to come out and plainly admit they support these things. I suppose they understand that even with all the liberal and politically correct pressure that has been applied to the population that still Americans really don't want a socialist or communist nation. This is the reason they avoid these words and make almost anyone willing to use them about our representatives look foolish.
They still dare not let their little secret out. They still don't want to be named for what they are because they understand that perception is very important. Substance is also important but if you can convince poeple that you don't deserve the label in spite of all your actions then your substance won't matter to them and you can continue to do what you wanted.
What really strikes me as odd in this perception war is that the left is free to call the American people stupid and easily mislead and no one takes offense about it, they simply excuse it if it is coming from the left. It almost seems the left can say anything, whether it is contrary to the view of their party or not and people continue to cheer them on. If they say something about being careful with spending everyone cheers them, whether they do it or not, which means at it's root that everyone recognizes that's what they should be doing and therefore they have no room to criticize the right, but at the same time they can continue to spend and that is spun as compassion. They can do no wrong and the conservatives can do now right.
If conservatives want to cut back on spending it's because they don't care about people, and if they actually don't cut back on spending they are hypocrites and liars. It is one of the amazing things about the art of propaganda. No matter what you do or say if you only report one aspect of it or only some of the words said you can make any person appear to be taking any position on anything.
This is what we have happening in our nation right now. Those are the masters of spin have been hard at work for many years now. Those exercising this art are very good at it and over the years they've had a lot of opportunity to determine what works and what doesn't.
Currently there is still enough free press and information in our nation through the internet that people have not wholly swallowed the lie, but it feels like that time is drawing ever closer. I can not begin to say how often I hear people speak in platitudes and when challenged on those platitudes their response is not one of intellectual defense through reason, but rather to call you names and simply behave as though their view is self evident and there must be something wrong with you if you can't see it. These are the same tactics used so effectively by the media and the socialists and communists. If you don't have a good answer, name call, diminish, ignore, and ridicule.
This has been one of the most effective methods of destroying the credibility of your enemies for many years. This method of propaganda has been used at least as far back as World War II. at that time what they found was that dehumanizing your foes was the easiest way to get people to hate them. You made them appear as monsters, baby killers and killers of anyone that you would normally consider innocent, all the while ignoring all the innocent people really being killed.
Though none of these things has ever been left completely behind by either side and the left has definitely continued to use the ploy as an ongoing thing to very good effect it is being used in a much more overt way in our times and to devastating effect. The vicious way in which this has bene used over the last few years ought to be of great concern to everyone in the United States. As with so many things these things usually escalate till they are completely out of hand. Eventually violence breaks out and once the genie is out of the bottle there is no putting it back.
For some reason the left understands and uses this idea. It is the fear of the genie getting out of the bottle that ever keeps the right backing away when it is attacked. Sooner or later they will feel the need to defend themselves and when that happens out comes the genie.
It is for this reason that the left feels free to demonize as much as they want. It is also for this reason that the right never attacks back in kind. This is also the reason the left is more than happy to cal the right terrorists. It comes back to knowing what everyone thinks of terrorists instinctively. After a while you don't even question whether they're really terrorists you simply react emotionally as though they were.
though the right won't do this the left is happy to. When the right does use such terms as comparing what someone is doing to what Hitler did, they are not comparing his crimes they are comparing his methods. When the left makes the comparison they are comparing people to Hitler the person. They pretend they see no distinction between what the right is doing and what they are doing but they know full well. There is a great difference between comparing a person's methods and a person's personality and actions.
I only wish the media knew and made a distinction between them when they report
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