STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 6 June 2012

[Loge23]

73. Well articulated...

That is the basic premise of republican influence - fear. Dems may indeed have a poor record to run on, but the pukes record is even worse, and much more objectively verifiable, but yet they seem to have the momentum.
One of the most obvious ways they control the argument is in persuading the under-informed. They are masterful at this.
Vast numbers of voters for the right are voters that have absolutely no stake at all in right-wing policies, but yet they are motivated and even energized by the fear-mongering. Just this AM I read a letter in the local newspaper from a fellow who claimed to have worked for years in business with (as he described) minimal benefits. Why, he asked, should public employees get better benefits?
This is completely the equivalent of saying: "Those are MY crumbs, and I like them - we have no business asking for more!"
We expect the under-informed to vote Dem - why bother trying to reach them? Anyway, they probably don't understand our argument, we smugly opine.
That letter, after yesterdays somewhat inevitable outcome in WI, is a yet another clear sign to me that I live on the wrong planet; that everything I believe in, and know to be true, has become totally upside down.
We tend to lie low these days, the left. This site is called the "underground". As TG alludes to, it's probably because all of our arguments have become moot in this environment. We just don't speak crazy.