Tuesday, July 26, 2016

A convention guide from someone who isn't watching the conventions.

Some thoughts.....

Yes WE can! (Pander to a group in an attempt to lock them in a cycle of perpetual poverty as we've done in the past)

...and lie. (We're politicians, it's what we do)

Shame! (ding, ding) Shame! (What America needs are workable solutions, the Republicans gave us a shit-show, the Democrats are giving us Sarah Silverman's Game of Thrones fantasy)

Warren also did the 'nazi' salute when waving. (In the manner of Alt-Right talker Laura Ingraham. Not so amazingly, the media let this one pass)

Positive - no hate (It's easy to sit around and call the other side "stupid". That's a rhetorical crutch for the simple-minded. It's harder to come to the realization that YOUR side doesn't have many of the answers that are needed because it's locked into a vicious cycle of cronyism and patronage that is running the country and many of it's cities into the ground.)

Personal politics aside: It was a good speech. (And the tweet from POTUS was spot-on as well.)

238 years of American "progress" (We've morphed from "Yearning to be free" to "Where in the hell do I pee?")

Free! Stuff! Now! (Paid for by those making just a little more than you. In other words, every Bernie speech ever.)

Comedians for Clinton! (Or, two boobs supporting a lying boob)


Of course, there's the usual rumblings (From Republicans of a Lee Greenwood lean) about the Democrats having no visible American flags on their stage. This should not surprise you since the Democrats stopped being an American party, and morphed into a globalist party, a long time ago.

Oh sure they have the same problems as the Republicans. A large bloc of under-educated, noisy, uncivil, Nationalist, borderline racist and "activist" groups sucking up a lot of the political oxygen right now but for all of their Black Lives Matter pandering the Democrats are still a lily white group at the top, the only difference being that they do a better job of integrating minorities into their lower ranks, primarily through the promise of freebies.

In the end both parties are purveyors of the same snake-oil, only the labels have changed. The ingredients of hatred, smugness, Statism and a stripping away of the rights of those whose ideas differ is still the nasty concoction inside the bottle.

One other not so subtle difference.  The media is actively marketing the Democrat's snake-oil. And that is an advantage the Republicans may never be able to fully overcome. Americans are being convinced that stuff is free and sold the idea that one party is "correct" while the other is "wrong". That's never a sign of long-term viability in a functioning Republic. If you believe that way it's a good damn sign that you're the problem.