"Okay. Let’s lay out practical, no nonsense things we can do right now that are within the law, but could have an impact and make us conservatives feel better in the process.
One idea that I am passionate about is that no one should knowingly help a progressive financially. Do not knowingly frequent progressive establishments or hire them to do any work for you. Find out what you can before making any major purchases.
Punish progressives for being progressives. Make them dead to you.
UPDATE: LisaGinNZ gives us this site to make things easier to target progressives – http://www.newsmeat.com/
This includes progressive friendships. I have plenty, and in the past it has been live and let live. But they aren’t letting people just live. The policies they support are an assault on you. Sorry to say it, but it’s time to cut them out of your life until they see the light one day.
As an artist I am surrounded by nothing but progressive colleagues. Conservatives who own businesses, please, I URGE YOU NOT TO JUST PICK UP A PHONE AND CALL SOME SHMUCK AT RANDOM IN THE PHONE BOOK FOR YOUR ADVERTISING OR CREATIVE NEEDS. CHANCES ARE THEY ARE A PROGRESSIVE. SEEK OUT A CONSERVATIVE TO HIRE. REWARD PEOPLE THAT SHARE YOUR VALUES. (Contact iOTW for your creative needs, he says sheepishly. That’s what we do in our private lives. Pass it on.)
No, seriously. Damage progressives as much as possible in any way that is within the law.
Any other ideas? List them in the comments."
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Big Fur Hat, asking for what Glenn Reynolds should have been demanding at least a year ago - forget the politicians, go after their NewAge supporters, and put your money with conservatives - just as I've already told Reynolds, because
iOwnTheWorld.
My hunch is that over the past few months, the right-wing media, along with self-adoring Tea Party members, made the mistake of believing their own hype. They convinced themselves that not only did 2 million people take to the streets of the nation's capital last September to protest Obama (a number that was off by 1.9 million), but that "millions" more had marched coast-to-coast over the past 12 months (a number that was completely fabricated). They fastidiously constructed their own parallel universe and convinced themselves that last summer's mini-mobs at local town hall forums had defeated health care reform. They thought their rowdy show of force, complete with Nazi and Hitler posters, and even some protesters parading around with loaded guns, had changed the debate.
ReplyDeleteListening to Limbaugh, they thought they were dictating the agenda. Watching Fox News, they though they reflected the mainstream. And reading right-wing blogs, they thought they had killed health care reform.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. It was the sudden and rude realization that, instead, they'd spent the past few months trapped inside an echo chamber, I think, that created the volcanic and unhinged response we've seen play out in recent days. It's the kind of childish and hysterical reaction I didn't think we'd ever witness from a major political movement.