Politics is downstream of culture, which is why our moonbat rulers follow Antonio Gramsci's strategy of seizing control of strategic high ground (the media, academia) and using it to weaken the culture, rather than trying to inflict communism all at once through brute force. Our willingness to tolerate and possibly even extend the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama is a testament to the strategy’s efficacy. Though Democrats have profited enormously from induced cultural decay, now that Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) is retiring, he can tell the truth:
“Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. I don’t know that I would’ve said that out loud pre-my announcement that I was going to be leaving. [Laughter] But I think that’s true. I mean everything has changed. The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people.”
Virtually everything broadcast on television advances the same philosophy: moonbattery.
Soon politics will be utterly superfluous, because the American people will have been “fundamentally transformed.” Already if James Madison came back from the dead and ran on a platform of restoring the Constitution, against Robert Mugabe running on a platform of spreading white folks’ wealth around, there is no doubt the media would stridently side with Mugabe, and little doubt that Mugabe would win.
What if George Washington himself returned and was somehow made president? His attempts to preserve liberty and honor would be met with hoots of derision by the media. It would be like making him president of the monkey cage at the zoo. Eloquent speeches have little effect when your audience is crapping in their hands and flinging it at you. In the end he would be hounded out of office for his insensitivity to the historically disadvantaged.
Consequently, even if the Democrats manage to lose, we will be left with a “moderate” who will advance their agenda, just slightly more slowly.
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"Politics is downstream of culture, which is why our moonbat rulers follow Antonio Gramsci's strategy of seizing control of strategic high ground (the media, academia) and using it to weaken the culture, rather than trying to inflict communism all at once through brute force."
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781933392790-0
"Virtually everything broadcast on television advances the same philosophy: moonbattery. "
You can see that the most on Faux News.
People have gotten dumber. It's called anti-intellectualism.
However, education can in fact solve the problem. That's why Thomas Jefferson was so adamant that schools and universities be established.
By the way, the anti-intellectualism in our society is encouraged by the Republican elites, not the Democrats.
Meh, more "librul media" crap. I guess Dave has never watched Fox News.
And I'm guessing that Dave's idea of "restoring liberty" means restoring the right of white Christian males to persecute everyone else, which I doubt the founding fathers would be in favor of after they've reviewed our history.
Well, he's certainly not alone in noticing a disturbing trend in the news from telling us what's going on in the world to what we should think about it. Even the venerable Beeb does it.
That said, I rather think it's because that's what (they think) gets viewers these days, not that it's a cynical master-plot. The guy's lost me there.
Again with the Hussein. Is his middle name THAT important that they have to say it every time, as if it's proof of him being an Evil Arab Terrorist? >_>
Also, few people in the USA would vote for Mugabe. You see, ol' Bob doesn't spread white people's wealth to the rest of the population... rather, he takes everyone's wealth and distributes it to his thug trinity: the Party (ZANU-PF), the Army (and its associated war veterans, many of them fake) & the Police (who, like the military, are essentially just glorified thugs).
From the perspective of the extreme anarchist right, everything seems like it's communism, up to and including baseball, mom and apple pie.
@Vman
"Again with the Hussein. Is his middle name THAT important that they have to say it every time, as if it's proof of him being an Evil Arab Terrorist? >_>"
Yes, they are that stupid, I'm afraid. If I named my dog Adolf Hitler, it would, in the eyes of Moonbattery posters, be as evil as the aforementioned dictator and should be put on trial for crimes against humanity. That's how their brains work.
Also, I admit that I hadn't quite finished reading that posting, owing to the fact that my eyes had begun to glaze over at the first sentence. Anyway, if Mitt Romney is a "moderate", then Cookie Monster is a dietician.
"What if George Washington himself returned and was somehow made president?"
We have the Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution protecting us from a zombie Washington administration.
But you've got a point. Washington would be very much against brute force, and completely on the side of personal liberty. That's why he led the Whiskey Rebellion against taxes in 1791, right?
I will agree that the average American is becoming less well informed, but that affects the twits at sites like Moonbattery and FreeRepublic more than anyone else.
Keep watching Fox News and reading conspiracy sites, boys.
And the alternative to Gramsci was.....?
Mussolini. the godfather of fascism.
David Blount, you have no idea of what Liberty is.
When Ackerman said people were getting dumber he was talking about YOU. When he said we give broad cast license to philosophy he was talking about Fox News.
You, Dave Bount, are literally too stupid to insult.
That's not quite Gramsci's strategy. Gramsci had a critique of capitalist cultural hegemony and articulated the need to create a working class intellectual culture. I don't believe that there's any deliberate attempt to "weaken the culture". If the culture is more tolerant, then it's stronger, not weaker.
"Our willingness to tolerate... the presidency of Barrack Hussein Obama" (Love the use of his middle name, by the way. Ooh, a scary foreign name.) It's not a question of "tolerating" it. He was elected fair and square.
So, let me get this straight. Communists took over the media and academia and got Obama elected. Right. That's funny. I seem to remember, back in 2008, his being supported by some of the richest people in the world, including Warren Buffett.
I'm not sure how "Democrats would profit from cultural decay". How does that work? Sounds like Gary Ackerman is talking about stuff like Fox News.
The other bit is bizarre. The wish that dead people would come back and take over reminds me of the fundamental Muslims, who want to restore the caliphate and also have a holy text that they want to be truer to.
As for James Madison, he might just see that big business and corporations and rich people have too much power and influence over the electoral process. And as for Robert Mugabe, why him? He is not an American and therefore not eligible for office.
And what is "white folk's wealth"? As if a huge proportion of American wealth hasn't come from the work of African Americans, initially unpaid and afterwards usually low paid.
The idea of a 21st country run by an 18th-century president is absolutely ridiculous. "His attempts to preserve liberty and honor would be met with hoots of derision by the media". I think the media would probably be more like, 280 YEAR OLD MAN LIVES!!!!!
What's fascinating to me is to imagine an America as this guy would like it to be.
1) You have no idea what communism is. The US is infinitely closer to and more likely to become fascist than it is to become communist. Not least because of people like you. This is, let us not forget, a culture where not letting poor people starve in the streets is described as "socialism".
2) James Madison would spit on you and George Washington would probably have dropkicked you. Neither on them even slightly resembled the version of them that exists in your head.
Well, I think this is the first time I've seen a fundie hate on Gramsci...perhaps slightly surpisingly
if these people think that the current Republican platform is moderate I fear what they actually believe...if they think the american media is left wing... *cries*
I wouldn't vote for Washington or Madison or any long dead guy you could bring back (I'm not American, but it's a lesser problem than resurrecting the dead :p) because they'd have so much to learn to catch up with the current situation they'd hardly have any chance of becoming the most qualified candidates.
Worshipping your founding fathers is just creepy.
Washington would be more likely to agree with Obama than the Tea Party. In fact, even Eisenhower would be more likely to agree with Obama.
Where were conservatives asking to reduce the power of the President during the Reagan era? I remember a conservative complaining "why doesn't [the Democratic] Congress get out of his way and let him run the country?"
I like how you guys think moonbats are the ones who ignore the constitution. Hint: every politician, regardless of ideology, will ignore the constitution if it suits them.
It's also worth noting that it was the Bush administration which began the policy of starting wars with the deliberate intention of using them as justification to subvert the Constitution. (That the Obama administration has changed this policy very little reinforces my earlier point about anti-constitutional policies knowing no ideology.)
"Virtually everything broadcast on television advances the same philosophy: moonbattery."
No, virtually everything broadcast on television advances capitalism, since that's what keeps the networks running. Some make money in liberal broadcasting, some in conservative; most of TV is apolitical anyhow (yet still capitalist). But you can hardly claim some sort of leftist cultural dominion when the most blatantly pro-conservative journalistic institution in American history continuously dominates the ratings.
@farpadokly
"If the culture is more tolerant, then it's stronger, not weaker."
Quoted. For. Truth.
"Already if James Madison came back from the dead and ran on a platform of restoring the Constitution, against Robert Mugabe running on a platform of spreading white folks’ wealth around, there is no doubt the media would stridently side with Mugabe, and little doubt that Mugabe would win.
What if George Washington himself returned and was somehow made president? His attempts to preserve liberty and honor would be met with hoots of derision by the media."
"Media" must be some sort of code word for the Republican Party.
#1417268:
Uh... not likely. A few of the Founders were actively hostile toward religion, some were non-religious, and all of them seemed to think it was important to keep religion the hell away from government.
Being hostile to religion was a ruling class thing, meanwhile they were telling the peasants it was God's will that we work until we drop and expand the new empire. The little guy, as always, doesn't count.
@ #1418038:
Sources, please?
Along with the twenty or so other things wrong with this post, I'll point out one of the subtler ones: Washinton wasn't know for his eloquent speeches. A barely-educated professional soldier, he was just barely literate and articulate enough to function as president, and he struggled even at that.
Confused?
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