According to a recent Gallup Poll, 42% of Americans consider themselves to be "conservative" or "very conservative." The same poll shows that only 20% consider themselves "liberal" or "very liberal."
This sounds encouraging...and to a degree, it is. But the poll also shows 35% of Americans consider themselves to be "moderates," which in turn breaks down into two component groups: people who are too clueless about the news to have a meaningful opinion, and people who are closet liberals and don't want to admit it.
And seriously, who can blame them? Would you want to take responsibility for debt skyrocketing out of control, open borders, failure to contain oil spills, rising healthcare costs, the collapse of America's foreign policy, record joblessness, rising taxes and, worst of all, The View?
Of course, the only numbers that really matter are the ones we'll be seeing in November. And we can hardly wait...
... and then there's those so dumb they actually think they're moderates.
ReplyDeleteThis is why the demagoguery of "right wing radicals" and "tea partiers", etc., frustrates me so much. We have a non-stop dribble of acid invective from the Obama administration aided and abetted by Hollywood, the MSM, and other cultural elites. It works like poison in the hearts and small minds of the great bulk of citizens who don't start paying attention (if then) until it's time to vote. This is when liberals pretend they're moderates and the liberal MSM presents itself as moderate and fair-minded. The markers that define various groups have already been moved. This November I have hope that more people are paying attention to the actual results of policy and ignoring the chatter from the demagogues. Hope with a small h.
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ReplyDelete"... and then there's those so dumb they actually think they're moderates."
That was me a year or two ago. Having such a horrifically biased media that obfuscates said bias was partially to blame, but maleducation certainly played a part. "Ignorance is bliss" is the foundation upon which liberalism rests.
BornLIb- You're not alone. Your own Stilton Jarlsberg had an embarrassing history of blithely buying the stereotypes about the "good" democrats and the "bad, greedy" republicans because I wasn't really paying attention.
ReplyDeleteI woke up quite some time ago (having a child, a job, and paying taxes all contributed), and 9/11 provided the fire to harden my beliefs into steel.
"Ignorance is bliss" is not only the fundamental principle of liberalism...it could easily become the epitaph for our nation.
You can turn that around the other way as well -- "Bless is ignorance." If you are happy with all of this, you are clearly dumb as a post!
ReplyDeleteI have simply never understood how anyone could be a Lib. Do they never seriously ask themselves the question, "who pays for it all?" You have to be willfully blind to believe in the Utopia of the Left, and frankly I cannot accept that very many do. I think that in their heart of hearts they say, "well, it wont be me." In that they are probably correct, but that is an genuinely evil answer, an answer that is as callous and uncaring for the welfare of others as it is possible to have.
If I am correct, then all of the talk about caring for others, caring for the earth, etc. is done knowing full well that it is completely bogus and that they do not mean a word of it. They are liars through and through. That is just plain wicked.
Libs do ask "Who will pay for it". When the answer is "the government", most probe no further. Those who do probe further get platitudes about increasing the profits taxes on businesses without ever equating that answer to higher costs and, therefor, a tax ultimately on themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhat really bothers me are those who are perfectly happy with having "windfall taxes" on investors, higher taxation on the rich, and other manifestations of class envy. First, to their gullibility, history has many lessons on how the numbers of those considered "rich" swell and move as the "haves" are slowly stripped of their riches - eventually, wealth is taken from everyone until all is communal property (read: property of the government to be doled out as they see fit - one hell of a power base!). But worse: this tenet is part and parcel of socialism. Accuse them of being socialists and they respond strongly that they aren't - clearly, they have no idea what socialism is, but understand that, at least to most Americans, it carries a negative connotation.
Stilton.....Liberal thinking wasnt always a bad thing as it is today...its become as we know dependence on big government when originally it was open to new ideas that had nothing to do with getting something for nothing. As Im learning lately, liberals arent the worst, its the 'progressives' that can be found in both parties that are quite insidious.
ReplyDeleteIm glad the responsibilities of parenthood and all got ya to thinking...for me, it was my new relationship with God and his precepts found in the bible, plus becoming a father... hey, whatever it takes!! we're ALL looking forward to this November!
Then there's my brother, who genuinely believes he knows better how to spend my paycheck than I do. Frankly admits to being a socialist - "What's wrong w/ that?"
ReplyDeleteWell, other than sooner or later you run out of other people's money (M.Thatcher) and it's never worked ANYWHERE it's been tried (he likes to point to Sweden, I remind him of the insane suicide rate). He fails to see that it rewards mediocrity and indolence, while penalizing excellence and success....
Sad.
@Pete(Detroit) -- Socialism really has not worked in Sweden either, despite its apparent success there. Their society is coming apart at the seams, and they have officially declared that there is no "Swedish culture." This means that they have disavowed their own heritage, their history, who they are. They live a hedonistic lifestyle, in which most do not both to marry because marriage is seen as a transient thing at most. Free sex and easy is the drug that pervades Swedish culture (yes, there is one, despite official pronouncements to the contrary), and this is allowing the "managers" to give away the country to the in-coming muzlim hoards who are taking over the country quite rapidly. The city of Malmo is completely muzlim dominated, and most other Swedish cities are heavily infested. Sweden is a MESS, a typical social rose garden!
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