Liberals don't know how to do this because they don't have normal friends and neighbors -- only fellow demonstrators. Their self-image is as little Lenins, rousing the masses at the Finland Station, which is why they always sound as if they've gotten control of the PA system and are broadcasting from Big Brother, Inc. Because this is a fight to reclaim the values of the middle class. This is the movement of our time. And we need people all across America, working people, to stand up and say, this is the time we need to restore economic justice.
And we know that the only -- that the union movement is the only thing that stands between unbridled corporategreed and a true economic democracy. And we -- what I would like tosay is, America, stand with us, stand with us who are fighting for justiceand economic justice in our society. The next night, Katrina Vanden Huevel was engaging in the same sort of "Internationale" hectoring: "People are waking up.
And they're in the streets. There are going to be fifty rallies around this country. Maybe a million people in the streets of this country. And what are they saying? You're giving our people's money away. Invest in our country, invest in jobs, invest in education. Keep cops on the street, keep teachers in the classrooms. Enough with these perks for corporations. There's a movement called U. Justice, fairness, concepts that may be coming back to America in this moment.
The advantage of slogans like these -- "working families," "economicjustice," "unbridled corporate greed," and "invest in our country, invest in jobs, invest in education" -- is that liberals never have to talk about the actual issues being discussed. You'd never know in the fog of jargon that the Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, was only asking government employees to start paying 6 percent of their pensioncontributions up from zero percent and 12 percent of their health careinsurance up from six percent.
Similarly, the pro-abortion movement depends on never ever using the word "abortion" -- only cant, such as "choice," "family planning," and "reproductive freedom. The Left's robotic speaking style helps explain why liberals have never been able to make a dent in talk radio, despite many tries. Apparently, even the people who get bused in to their rallies can't be paid to listen to liberals hectoring them on talk radio. Being endlessly lectured by deadly earnest liberals is boring. Ask any Cuban.
Based on their public commentary, it appears that not one liberal has the vaguest idea how the economy imploded. The only thing liberals know is -- as President Obama explained -- "Republicans drove the car into the ditch, made it as diffiult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. You can't drive. We don't want to have to go back into the ditch.
We just got the car out. A liberal would stare at you slack-jawed if you explained that the federal government, via Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, forced politically correct lending policies on the banks -- policies that were attacked by Republicans but ferociously defended by Democrats -- and that the banks' suicidal loans were then bundled into mortgage- backed securities and dispersed throughout the entire financial system, which poisoned the economy, bringing down powerful institutions, such as Lehman Brothers, and destroying innumerable families' financial portfolios.
In light of the Democrats' direct role in creating the policies at the heart of the nation's financial collapse, it's not surprising that they prefer metaphors to facts. What's strange is that the image of a car in a ditch is sufficient for the bulk of Democratic voters and commentators to adjudge themselves experts on the economic crisis and refuse to listen to explanations that aren't images of Bush driving a car into a ditch.
Image is all that matters to the mob. Obama can take in the biggest campaign haul from Wall Street in world history, as he did in , but the mob will never believe he is in the pocket of Wall Street bankers. And still Republicans are called the Party of Wall Street. Bush let Lehman Brothers go under -- what else do Republicans have to do? Liberals latched on to the image of Bush, Cheney, and even Tom DeLay as "oilmen" to blame them for everything from Enron's collapse to blackouts and high oil prices.
In , Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed "oilmen" in public office forhigh oil prices -- and hearing Pelosi try to craft a syllogism is like watchingMichael Moore attempt ballet. She said, "We have two oilmen in the White House. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect. Two "oilmen" in the White House -- cause and effect. Strangely though, a barrel of oil costs the same on the world market for all those other countries that were not being run by "oilmen.
A few years earlier, she had blamed Bush and Representative Tom DeLay for the blackout throughout the Northeast United States and parts of Canada -- presumably because they are both from Texas -- sayingthey had "put the interests of the energy companies before the interests ofthe American people.
The New York Times's Paul Krugman has written more than a dozencolumns making hazy connections between Bush and the corrupt andcollapsed Enron -- "Some cynics attribute the continuing absence ofEnron indictments to the Bush family's loyalty code" 15 -- despite Bush'shaving absolutely nothing to do with the company, other than being from Texas. By contrast, Krugman was on Enron's advisory board while he was writing encomiums to Enron in Fortune magazine.
Democrats wouldn't make such absurd statements if absurdity didn'tseem perfectly logical to their base. This is how Democrats communicatewith their constituents: They use mob tactics to rile up the irrationalmasses. Crowds can't grasp logic, only images. Republicans love Wall Street -- oh look, Wall Street just made historiccampaign contributions to Obama; he must be really cool. Republicans hate the poor because they're trying to block government policies promoting easy mortgages.
Oops, I wonder why the economy just tanked. It's because Bush drove it into a ditch! Enron collapsed and Paul Krugman says it's Bush's fault. Krugman was paid by Enron and Bush wasn't? Bush lied, kids died! Oil prices went up under Bush -- it's his fault -- he's an oilman! Oh but then oil prices went down under Bush. Hey, look over there! A shiny object! Despite their perennial enthusiasm for revolution and "change" in almost any form, Le Bon says, crowds are wildly conservative when it comes to scientific progress.
Want to scare a liberal? Mention nuclear power plants, genetically modified fruits, new pharmaceuticals, food irradiation, or guns with plastic frames. We could probably get a crowd of liberal protesters to scatter just by coming at them with a modern vacuum cleaner. It certainly works on dogs and cats. The Left's abject terror of technological development is yet another mob attribute. Le Bon says that the mob's "unconscious horror" of "all novelty capable of changing the essential conditions of their existence is very deeply rooted.
While mobs go about changing the names of institutions and demanding radical changes to society, he says, when it comes to scientific progress, crowds have a "fetish- like respect" for tradition. Thus, according to Le Bon, if "democracies possessed the power they wield today at the time of the invention of mechanical looms or of the introduction of steam- power and of railways, the realization of theseinventions would have been impossible.
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