The Ultimate Scare Tactic That Won’t Work

Monday 13 September 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + election

Scaring voters is a time tested way of manipulating polities into voting in a particular way in order to achieve prescribed results, but they’re not fool-proof. Especially when all you have is a bucket of shit to support that agenda. But the Demotards are peddle-to-the-fucking-metal with what they seem to think is their ace in the hole scare tactic: reminding those that Sarah Palin supports not only the GOP, but those dirty, ill-educated, backwoods, redneck, racist, tea baggers. It’s fucking sad, really, to see them stoop this low, but then again all they have to prop themselves is that proverbial bucket of shit. Glenn Greenwald:

With no end in sight to the unemployment crisis, almost no real benefits yet in effect on their central legislative achievement (health care), a high likelihood of Social Security cuts following the election, few of the promises kept on the issues most important to their core base, and even hardcore Democratic pundit-partisans now finally — and angrily — acknowledging that Obama has continued the vast bulk of Bush/Cheney civil liberties/executive power abuses (ones which drove many progressives to remove the GOP from power), what else can they do to motivate people to vote for them besides try to scare people into thinking about the Sarah Palin menace?

Most interesting, Greenwald notes, is that Palin does not occupy any seat of power, nor is she running for one, yet their choice to attack her is willing and balls-to-the-wall. Obama and his Demotarded congress haven’t even made his most loyal progressive supporters happy with some of the most contentious issues like civil liberties, and in some cases has made those egregious attacks on our freedoms even more fucked up (I wasn’t even sure that it was possible to be worse than Dubbya in the civil liberties arena), so, along with the “It’s Bush’s Fault™” meme Obama has worn the fuck out over the last two years, they’ve added another conservative bogey (wo)man to the discussion.

It’s nice to see politics as usual in the new age of hope and change.

2010-09-13  »  madlibertarianguy