“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
The Pew Poll this week that has everyone talking shows voter distrust of government at an all time high. Congress, federal agencies, the political parties, etc. are all massively distrusted and loathed by the voters.
Correspondingly, we have seen news story after news story and Democrat after Democrat come out and tell us the reason for the distrust and loathing is “Republican rhetoric” and tea party activists.
The Democrats and many talking heads in the media have gone so far as to say that any and all acts of violence against the government are to be blamed on Republicans. The Pentagon shooter from a few months ago turned out to be a registered Democrat and 9/11 truther who hates conservatives, George Bush, and the right in general. But the right’s “rhetoric” caused the guy to shoot up the Pentagon.
Across the board, every bad poll number for the Democrats and every word by the right has been tied together by an angry horde of the seditious, a call to violence, and a warning that when and if any violence does occur against any elected official or the government in general it is the right’s fault because of their words.
So if someone blows up a Wal-Mart tomorrow or attacks an employee for Exxon, a pharmaceutical company, or another corporation is that the left’s fault?
For longer than the right has been attacking government, the left has been attacking corporations. They have attacked corporate greed, corporate corruption, corporate bribery, corporate slavery, child labor, risky schemes, etc., etc., etc.
Despite most Americans being employed by incorporated private sector entities the left has been out savaging those corporations in rhetoric more heated that what the right has been saying about government — demonizing the free enterprise system.
Consequently, “big business” and corporations are polling exactly as badly as Congress in the latest Pew Poll.
If we insist on intellectual honesty and follow the left’s logic — generally impossible tasks — we must conclude that left-wing rhetoric is going to incite violence against CEO’s and corporations. Someone somewhere is going to blow up a Wal-Mart or burn down Wall Street.
And should someone do that, can we blame the Democrats? If we are consistent, the answer must be yes. That in turn begs the question: isn’t all the rhetoric about right-wingers inciting violence really overwrought?
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JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 6:25AM EST (link)LEFTISTS who now control the Party have caused and created the conditions for the violence against many Corporations. I always wonder where in the hell do these lazy, WHITE, college students think money comes from? Do they think their parents make it out of thin air? liberals have to be the STUPIDEST people on the face of this planet.
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Leopard1996 (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 6:32AM EST (link)That I heard from on Andrew Wilcow’s show, and that is, most of these POS individuals have no intention of participating in any of the policies that are coming out. They all feel that they know the man, next to the man, next to the G-D man that will give them the connect out of whatever crap policy they come up with. For example, the health care thing, they feel that since they have more than enough outs, that they will never suffer from a crappy system where primary care physicians leave in droves.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
The left will never own up to their dark side.
NeoKong (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 7:47AM EST (link)They never do. There have been many documented cases of left-wing violence but those are always isolated incidents that the media will never tie to Democrats.
The SEIU thuggery is a good example.
Norman Boon is another.
I mean if you really want to discuss it, the President himself kicked off his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist who is his good friend. If that isn’t a direct link to a terrorist then I don’t know what is.
Never taking responsibility for the damage they cause is the very essence of liberalism. It does not work without it.
If you actually tied all the dead bodies to liberal ideology it would number into the tens of millions.
How many died from malaria because of the DDT ban…?
How many have died from food shortages because of bio-fuels…?
How many have died from abortion ?
How many more soldiers died because the Democratic party deliberately tried to tank the war in Iraq.
Ask the two million dead Cambodians what they think of John Kerry and Jane Fonda.
This is too easy . I could do this all day.
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Norman LE boon....
NeoKong (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 7:51AM EST (link)Excuse me.
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The demonization of "big fat cat business"
Hugh (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 7:53AM EST (link)is nothing more than a smoke screen to regulate and intimidate them into fearing the government. Once controlled, they are at the mercy of the Socilaists to do their bidding. One piece of evidence is the drug companies beaten into submission on the health care bill. The drug companies are regulated by government agencies (FDA, Medicare, et. al.) to the point that they must submit or be punished financially. The U.S. version of Socialism does not include ownership of business (unless necessary) but does include virtually complete control through goverment rules and regulation. Can’t wait for Obama to appear in NY today to get Wall Street beat into submission. Nov. 2010 may be our last chance to stop this. We must fight the good fight to take back the country through constitutional means. That is not sedition.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Yes we can!
wilfranc Thursday, April 22nd at 8:33AM EST (link)Or at least try. It starts in our own families and circles by holding people accountable.
The Peter Pan party (Dems), who believe a 26 year old is a child, also believe that most of their followers are children regardless of age and do not have free will and choice to either do good or bad. At least that is the message they are telling us: their followers are mindless, so ours must be too.
It is currently much easier to commit a crime while being registered Democrat than Republican, and we do need to change that.
How about if they assault a banker...
Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 9:08AM EST (link)camp outside their homes and generally harass their families? After all, Obama will blame the entire faltering economy on bankers and their lobbyists, the latter of whom he took money from in the form of Fannie/Freddie and countless others
Simple answer, “yes we can”.
Once again, there are no Wall Street banker in handcuffs since nothing they did was illegal. But they are a convenient “bad-guy” to distract from the fact that Obama’s economic policies have brought us to record unemployment (and a seemingly perpetually shrinking job market), ruinous deficits, disastrous long-term GDP outlooks and nationalized industries.
“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson
The Left can't compete.
dwscho Thursday, April 22nd at 9:14AM EST (link)The Left can’t compete in the discourse so they resort to the only thing they know, hurling nasty words and crying foul against the Right. However, we have seen time and again the left’s tactics when they create public disturbances instead of reasoned opposing arguments. That’s because they have none.. As Glenn Beck’s book, Arguing With Idiots”, suggests you can’t hold an intelligent debate with a liberal because they don’t understand the issues. They can’t do anything other than throw a tantrum when you poke holes in their positions.
The same is true of Barry. He incites the liberals and the union thugs to challenge the right because he has no other way to lead. His programs are nothing more than disasters as he trys his darndest to destroy America.
The whole thing would be rather funny if not for the fact these are serious issues we are fighting. We need to continue to push ahead making reasoned arguments to support our principles and positions and avoid succumbing to the tactics employed by the left.
Fight on Patriots!
"Going to...?" They have been for years...
LaborUnionReport (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 9:42AM EST (link)“If we insist on intellectual honesty and follow the left’s logic — generally impossible tasks — we must conclude that left-wing rhetoric is going to incite violence against CEO’s and corporations. Someone somewhere is going to blow up a Wal-Mart or burn down Wall Street.”
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Not just Walmart
ladisney Thursday, April 22nd at 11:18AM EST (link)The Democrat’s hateful rhetoric towards banks, oil companies, investment companies and business in general mean that anytime something bad happens to any of them Democrats can be held responsible. Why Not? They set the standard, let’s see how they like it.
And unfortunately, old Bill O'Reilly...
uselogic Thursday, April 22nd at 3:10PM EST (link)… seems to be piling on with similar populist rhetoric about “Wall Street thugs” and “banker gangsters”. I’ve pretty much given up on that guy. He doesn’t do research anymore; just spouts off without any nuance or background. Problem is, many independents watch his show and end up parroting his call for more & more regulation. Hello,… CRA is what got this whole economic debacle started.
What are the odds that anyone BUT a leftist would think a Walmart a fit target for a bomb, anyway? NT
GCBWI (Diary) Thursday, April 22nd at 4:09PM EST (link)