If Republicans Were Democrats
This is a great article by Ned Rice, and is something I've talked about here a time or two. We all know what kind of turmoil the country would be in right now, I mean a different kind of turmoil, if the Democrats had lost so many close races like the Republicans did. There would be recounts and lawsuits and who knows what else. As Rice says:
Instead, if Republicans were Democrats they’d be screaming from the rooftops that last week’s elections were clearly, obviously stolen. The really clever ones would be showing off their ability to recognize rhyming words by claiming that their betters had been “selected, not elected.” Ha, ha — get it? On a more serious note, they’d insist that conservative voters must have been intimidated into staying home by…well, by somebody, by golly. Probably some special-interest group with the word “Big” in their name, like “Big Oil,” “Big Steel,” or “Big Racial Set-Asides.” If Republicans were Democrats some of them would be blaming those same voters, charging that the lazy, stupid masses had just screwed everything up for the smart people. Somewhere, a Democrat-like Republican would have just started writing a book, entitled, What’s The Matter With The Upper West Side?, about how low-brow, ignorant Americans had inexplicably voted against their self-interests once again because, let’s face it, most Americans are just plain dumb.
Read the whole article, he nails it.
JASmius adds: If Republicans leveled such recriminations, they'd be doing so with a lot more credibility than the Democrats ever did. Conservative voters were, if not intimidated, than certainly manipulated into staying home by Enemy Media coverage of their own side. That same coverage utterly duped the "independents," by contrast, into voting Democrat in droves. The problem with complaining about either is that both are so easy to do that you can't leave out the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" factor. They don't call the GOP the "stupid party" for nothing.
Still, I would not call all voters who turned heel last week "low-brow" or "ignorant." The Democrats I consider to be enemies; the "independents" quite literally don't know any better because they never bother to pay enough attention to learn (A powerful argument for disenfranchising non-aligned voters, actually). The only voters whose intelligence I would question are the "cut & run conservatives" who thought they could "teach the GOP a lesson" and then take everything back two years from now. That little bit of idiocy will have an incalculable cost over a future that is foreseeably bleak in just about every respect.
As to election theft, I would would bet you dollars to donuts that vote fraud cost Jim Talent his seat in Missouri, and that was the difference in flipping control of the Senate to the Donks. But we'll never know because the Enemy Media will never investigate elections that put their party into power. And any attempt to do so from our side will earn us a fusillade of ridicule as..."sore losers."
We forgot the wisdom of the noted philosopher Ivana Trump: "Success is the best revenge." Will anybody on our side remember what it took to get there in the first place? Or are they already resigned to permanent powerlessness?
A little fire, even as referenced above, would provide a glimmer of encouragement.
Instead, if Republicans were Democrats they’d be screaming from the rooftops that last week’s elections were clearly, obviously stolen. The really clever ones would be showing off their ability to recognize rhyming words by claiming that their betters had been “selected, not elected.” Ha, ha — get it? On a more serious note, they’d insist that conservative voters must have been intimidated into staying home by…well, by somebody, by golly. Probably some special-interest group with the word “Big” in their name, like “Big Oil,” “Big Steel,” or “Big Racial Set-Asides.” If Republicans were Democrats some of them would be blaming those same voters, charging that the lazy, stupid masses had just screwed everything up for the smart people. Somewhere, a Democrat-like Republican would have just started writing a book, entitled, What’s The Matter With The Upper West Side?, about how low-brow, ignorant Americans had inexplicably voted against their self-interests once again because, let’s face it, most Americans are just plain dumb.
Read the whole article, he nails it.
JASmius adds: If Republicans leveled such recriminations, they'd be doing so with a lot more credibility than the Democrats ever did. Conservative voters were, if not intimidated, than certainly manipulated into staying home by Enemy Media coverage of their own side. That same coverage utterly duped the "independents," by contrast, into voting Democrat in droves. The problem with complaining about either is that both are so easy to do that you can't leave out the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" factor. They don't call the GOP the "stupid party" for nothing.
Still, I would not call all voters who turned heel last week "low-brow" or "ignorant." The Democrats I consider to be enemies; the "independents" quite literally don't know any better because they never bother to pay enough attention to learn (A powerful argument for disenfranchising non-aligned voters, actually). The only voters whose intelligence I would question are the "cut & run conservatives" who thought they could "teach the GOP a lesson" and then take everything back two years from now. That little bit of idiocy will have an incalculable cost over a future that is foreseeably bleak in just about every respect.
As to election theft, I would would bet you dollars to donuts that vote fraud cost Jim Talent his seat in Missouri, and that was the difference in flipping control of the Senate to the Donks. But we'll never know because the Enemy Media will never investigate elections that put their party into power. And any attempt to do so from our side will earn us a fusillade of ridicule as..."sore losers."
We forgot the wisdom of the noted philosopher Ivana Trump: "Success is the best revenge." Will anybody on our side remember what it took to get there in the first place? Or are they already resigned to permanent powerlessness?
A little fire, even as referenced above, would provide a glimmer of encouragement.
posted by Jennifer at 7:35 AM
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