The moment we let the Republicans control the arguments, we let them place doubts in our heads about who we are as a party.
We let them doubt ourselves on abortion, single parenthood, genderhood, homosexuality, infidility, spending, taxes, you name it, they control the argument.
Hell, I’m surprised we haven’t started scratching our heads on evolution and global warming.
The media might be on the Republicans’ side of the argument – but that doesn’t make them right about ANYTHING.
Yelling louder doesn’t make you correct. You can have your own opinions but you can’t have your own facts.
Clinton really dropped the ball when he kept denying his affair with Monica Lewinsky. If he had only said “so?” or “it’s private, my family and I are dealing with this”. In other words, if we had simply separated the job from the private life, we would’ve all been better off.
It’s not hard for them to control the argument, even when they are wrong. They own and control 90% of all domestic media – print, radio, television, etc. If you want to find out anything about what’s going on, factually, you have to go to the liberals for information
If you want to be pounded to a numb, mindless, non-thinking neocon, well you simply turn on any “news” channel in any part of this country, and you’ll hear what THEY want you to hear.
Politically, they are masters.
But they are not academics or experts in any field, except deception.
It sounds crazy to say it, but it’s true.
If you don’t fight off the nonsense, you end up finally backing down and forcing yourself to somehow agree with them.
I have been fighting this for the past decade – and I keep wondering when everyone else will, too.
The rightwing conveniently creates arguments that favor their point of view. In their mind, if they didn’t see it happen, it never existed. With that kind of thinking, you end up with flat-earthers who refuse to believe anytyhing other than what the simpleton idiot on TV said, then it must not be true of an “expert” challenged it.
It’s really easy to dumb someone down if you yell at them long enough.
They’ve proven this point over and over again.
What we need is to finally wake up and take back our dignity.
Refuse to be bullied – and start sticking up for ourselves.
If you don’t stick up for what’s right (which in this case, is the left!), then you won’t have anyone left to stick up for you.
