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THE NEWEST MEME
As you may have heard, this is the newest thing a lot of Liberals are saying. Per VDH:
...we are told that the new jihadists are not Islamists, but our own Christians who are implementing a continental-wide red-state Jesusland.
From the November 10th cartoon by Pat Oliphant (no link), in which Bush gives Jesus a job interview:
Do you think you could meet our right-wing standards? Do you believe in the merging of church and state?
From a New York Times article by Gary Wills:
The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate. It is not what they had experienced from this country in the past. In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies.
This is breathtaking in its blatant disregard for any appreciation of the facts. According to Wills, we resemble our enemies because America has citizens who are devoted to Christianity and Islamofascists have terrorists who are devoted to Islam. It doesn’t stand up to a moment’s review.
It’s just a conflation of a lot of things:
THE LEADERSHIP ON THE LEFT LOVES TO SAY THIS SORT OF THING
As I recently noted:
This is the whole Liberal playbook: 1) Say something absurd that has no basis in fact and slams Republicans. 2) Repeat until rank and file Dems think you believe it. 3) Rank and file Dems then figure since their leaders believe it, it must be true.
The meme has to be absurd. The sheer absurdity is the alert to all other Liberal leaders that they are all to keep repeating it as if they mean it.
Then the rank and file on the Left, long-suffering, long-deceived, think that their leaders really believe it. They look around and see no challenge to it from mainstream media, which is colluding with the Left and not laughing these things out of all consideration.
And finally, they look around at us—at the Right—at the Conservatives—and see no response. Why? Because we think the whole thing is so dumb it’s not worth responding to. That’s our key mistake.
Because when the rank and file on the Left sees all their leaders saying it, and no challenge from mainstream media, and no challenge even from us, they conclude—quite rationally—that it must be true!
LET’S GET GOOD AT NIPPING THESE SO-CALLED “MEMES” IN THE BUD
This time we can see it happening almost under a microscope, because this one is just getting underway. We have an opportunity to slam this particular meme into the ground right now. All we have to do is to say out loud how absurd and preposterous it is. There’s enough of us to get the word out.
By not responding to the newest meme, we assist mainstream media to also not respond to it. MSM won’t be so easily able to ignore the absurdity, if we ourselves do not ignore it.
As long as the rank and file on the Left sees a reasonable response, the meme will get busted.
Why will the rank and file on the Left pay attention to what we say?
Because they really do love America and want what’s best for this country.
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