Monday, June 28, 2004
Citizen or Consumer? Discussion or Crap-fest?
What MMoore is actually saying with F-911 is, "Look at me! I can throw mud! Look at meee!" Nothing deeper than that. The Democratic Party has long demonstrated its contempt for "the little people" whom it purports to "want to help," while advancing policies that make citizens more dependent and less capable, and the country weaker. Unfortunately, the alternative is to assume every individual is worthy of respect and capable of doing valuable work, and that it is up to all of us to work together to keep America strong and good. Hard to feel superior from that perspective. Now parts of the Democratic Party have overlapped with the Me-Mine-MMoore-Now! / MoveOn crowd and are being treated as serious participants in the American political discussion. This is a mistake. To treat the whole BusHitler meme as though it were serious is to validate garbage. To dismiss it as the tripe it is would be to fail to recognize the serious corrosive effect it has on citizens' confidence in the respectability of political discourse. Without the confidence of the citizens, political discourse devolves into the "roobba roobba roobba" noise of a looting mob. The business of citizens running our country does not get done. The country falls into the hands of those with the strongest stomachs and highest tolerance for the irrational, emotion-based approach. Decisions based on irrational, emotion-based appeals to the lowest common denominator are not good decisions. If we ignore the tactics of MMoore and MoveOn, we will have to live with those decisions. If we fail to call them on using these vile techniques in their efforts to arouse the mob rule mentality of the "consumer" we are, in effect, supporting them. The only counter to that approach is the high road. Appeals must be made for the return of the responsible citizen who is busy conducting his own life in a respectable manner and who has stepped back from political discourse out of disgust. The responsible, adult citizen must be encouraged to rejoin the fray or we will be left at the mercy of the omnivorous, media-driven gimmie-whimsey of the consumer. Otherwise we will live in a country run by the decisiveness of Kerry, the compassion of Hillary and the honesty of Teddy. . For more in this vein, Go See . . . Patio Pundit's BushCheney '04 "F"-bombs the Michael Moore Democrats . He calls it for what it is and proceeds to document it nicely.
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