Democratic Bigotry

Have you noticed the bigotry of the Angry Left? When you disagree with them you will be met, not with any kind of intellectual argument. Not with reasons intended for rational debate. No, what you get instead is the most vicious assault of name-calling and personal smears that they can think up. We have all heard the vast array of insults and epithets which the Angry Left falls back on so easily. How easy and simple to dismiss a group of people who you oppose. No need to find a reason, no need to offer a better set of ideas, no need to refute arguments you may disagree with. One need only continue to have blind and unswerving faith in The Great Socialist Utopia which will one day materialize in the future if only we can get rid of those pesky people who still talk about those passe and quaint ideas such as liberty and freedom and limited government and rule of law and personal responsibility.

But we don't really want to debate them on the issues. Better to offer a smear. Better to find a neat and simple term to use to avoid any debate. Just call them a name and make sure it sounds good on TV so Dan Rather can use it. "Radical Right Wing" or "Right Wing Extremists" or even "Right Wing Cabal." Yeah, that will scare the rubes out in fly-over-country. We'll just say that Republicans want to poison the air and water, starve old people, kill their babies and put them all in bread lines. Yeah, they're too stupid not to buy that. And when we get in they won't notice when we raise their taxes and give their money to all of our favorite groups who can go right on scaring the hell out of them so they vote for us some more. Yeah, that will work.

And if they don't vote for us we'll just call them stupid and selfish and fascist and racist and homophobic and any other names we can think up. And when we do, we'll work on making them all feel good and guilty for what they have because guilty people can be manipulated to vote for us too. Just make them feel like if they don't vote Democratic then, why they're some kind of fiend or something. Yeah, that will work.

And if it doesn't, why we can pretend to be like them. We'll have a convention where we don't mention any of the ideas we talk about the rest of the time. We'll get a candidate who say's he's "Reporting for Duty" even if he is three years late. The sheeple will buy that. They like flags and stuff so we'll have a lot of those. And balloons too. Red, white and blue balloons. Just make sure the guy running the thing doesn't have his mike on when they don't come down right away, he might say something that the rubes in fly-over-country don't like. Just wave a lot of flags and stuff so the corn-fed masses will think we're patriotic and that we bathe as often as they do.
And for God's sake Keep Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo off camera, they could mess everything up. And keep those people from Democratic Underground off camera too. We'll just put them is a special area outside the convention hall to keep them quiet while they burn their flags and chant "Hey hey ho ho, Western culture's got to go." And we have to keep all of their Bush=Hitler posters off of the TV too. Just keep the cameras away from that whole area and we'll be fine.