From Episode #107:
- It matters if you’re wrong. Club members never have to worry about being wrong.
- It matters if you’re right. Non-Club member are virtually never be credited for being right. The closest we come is that sometimes -- 5 or 10 or 20 years after the fact -- convention Beltway Wisdom will slowly submit to the relentless badgering of Reality, reverse itself (while taking infinite care not to hold any of the advocates of the Old Lie account) and recongeal around the what has been the Dirty Hippie position all along. At no point will Beltway brain wizards ever admit they had been wrong all along (see lie #1.)
- Big Media is a disinterested observer and reporter in the political process.
- There is no governing elite.
- The Republican Party’s priority is family values. It's all IOKIYAR all the time when it comes to sex, power and hypocrisy.
- Centrism!
- Most Americans are independents. Bullshit. Most Americans are not interested in politics at all, or are afraid to discuss it, or list themselves as "Independent" for a variety of mutually contradictory reasons ("The 'Independent' Granfalloon").
- There is a free market. Ha! Any pretense of a free market has been abandoned by big business who use their almost unlimited economic power to stack the government in their favor (for example, BOA President saying “we have a right to make a profit.”)
- Voting is a privilege not a right.
- Voting doesn't matter. Ha! If voting didn't matter, the GOP would not be spending billions of dollars to stop you from doing it.
6 comments:
Thanks, I posted it to reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/npafp/the_professional_lefts_10_big_lies_of_2011/
Those could be the Big Lies since ... 1980?
There is a capitalist economy in the United States. It is pure capitalism.
No laws regulate it, no economists recognize it, it is the black market.
There is a straight deal, offer goods, offer cash, argue and sell. No contracts, no warranties, no police, no lawyers, no judges and no politicians.
It will grow as the economy continues heading south. Americans will not starve to death for the rich and their monopoly controls of the economy, the political system and their wholly controlled propaganda machine.
When trucks full of food start being hi-jacked that will be real capitalism in action.
Just pure capitalism.
Really? Another attack on the Left? Why? Because they are in power? No. Because they have been wrong? No. Why attack the PL, unless you are just another Republican trying to pass yourself off as a Democrat.
We've tried your brand, and the economy failed. More of the same isn't going to change things an iota.
"America is high school, and the Internet is the bathroom wall."
-- Darva Conger, of "Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire" infamy in 2000
{Would that make The New York Times the school paper?}
Depends on who your school's journalism teacher was. I was lucky enough to have Jack Kennedy at Iowa City City High. He stood up to the Principal Vernon Administration often enough, and always threatened to go back to selling shoes at Sears if the administration (or the class) got out of hand. Wish I'd learned more from him at the time. :-)
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