And if you think that's nuts. . .
By Capt. Fogg
What about the idea that the Ruling Class in America is "liberal" and the middle class is Republican and the former is out to destroy the latter by raising gasoline prices. That's one crepuscular thesis amongst a large cesspool of murky lies posted at Human Events. It begins by telling us we will think this is right out of Science Fiction and it is, if you don't know the difference between science and hate based lies.
As Ecophotos points out in the comments section of my previous post:
$11 a gallon gasoline won't hurt "limousine Liberals" (you'd think they would run out of straw) but it will hurt the "republican middle class." Funny that anyone would think the country is "ruled by Liberals" seeing the monolithic, one party system of the last 7 years, but then, if MLK can be a Republican, Cheney, who said conservation is unamerican, can be a Democrat and OPEC too. The Democrats, you see, are divided into two straw filled scarecrows: the poor and the "limousine" types. The poor, they say won't be hurt by outrageous fuel costs - as long as they don't eat, heat their houses or go to work. The Limo types, like me, don't mind. I beg to differ, but it won't do any good as long as I'm being shouted down by straw men.
Yes, it's all the fault of the "enviros" who insist that nuclear power plants should be safe and not built on fault lines or upwind of major metropolitan areas - those gremlins who won't let American oil reserves in Alaska be sold to the multinational oil cartel while huge oilfields already leased go undrilled. It was the Democrats who killed public transportation after all - Eisenhower and the board of GM were democrats you know.
In fact, if this article is a manhole into the sewer of Republican propaganda, I'll leave it to you to tally up the lies, distortions and the utter madness. It's not so much that it turns my stomach, but that I just can't stand not being violent any more.
What about the idea that the Ruling Class in America is "liberal" and the middle class is Republican and the former is out to destroy the latter by raising gasoline prices. That's one crepuscular thesis amongst a large cesspool of murky lies posted at Human Events. It begins by telling us we will think this is right out of Science Fiction and it is, if you don't know the difference between science and hate based lies.
As Ecophotos points out in the comments section of my previous post:
"Republican middle class? You mean the Republican middle class that pays 15% taxes on earnings in excess of $1m/year, while the Democrat middle class pays 34% on income below $200k? Oh, that is very slick."It is indeed, but the average Joe develops his opinions the way one sets up a chessboard; by using pieces provided by others: the rigged memes, and shady shibboleths of the rabid Right.
$11 a gallon gasoline won't hurt "limousine Liberals" (you'd think they would run out of straw) but it will hurt the "republican middle class." Funny that anyone would think the country is "ruled by Liberals" seeing the monolithic, one party system of the last 7 years, but then, if MLK can be a Republican, Cheney, who said conservation is unamerican, can be a Democrat and OPEC too. The Democrats, you see, are divided into two straw filled scarecrows: the poor and the "limousine" types. The poor, they say won't be hurt by outrageous fuel costs - as long as they don't eat, heat their houses or go to work. The Limo types, like me, don't mind. I beg to differ, but it won't do any good as long as I'm being shouted down by straw men.
Yes, it's all the fault of the "enviros" who insist that nuclear power plants should be safe and not built on fault lines or upwind of major metropolitan areas - those gremlins who won't let American oil reserves in Alaska be sold to the multinational oil cartel while huge oilfields already leased go undrilled. It was the Democrats who killed public transportation after all - Eisenhower and the board of GM were democrats you know.
In fact, if this article is a manhole into the sewer of Republican propaganda, I'll leave it to you to tally up the lies, distortions and the utter madness. It's not so much that it turns my stomach, but that I just can't stand not being violent any more.
Labels: dangerous idiots, lies, Republicans
posted by Libby Spencer at 1:24 PM
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