tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2921264430203738377..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-61421450733173469782014-01-24T10:50:58.158-05:002014-01-24T10:50:58.158-05:00To the Rothchilds the Koch Brothers are amateurs.
...To the Rothchilds the Koch Brothers are amateurs.<br /><br />Rubes.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56820596154432611292014-01-23T22:53:18.384-05:002014-01-23T22:53:18.384-05:00Not just Soros.
The Right has Koch, Scaife, Mello...Not just Soros.<br /><br />The Right has Koch, Scaife, Mellon, DeVos, Welch, etc etc for decades while the reichnuts always KNOW where the REAL enemies are:<br /><br />Rothschilds. And Soros'. And if it comes to that Rubin. And Lehman.<br /><br />Morgan Good. Rothschild Bad. Though you couldn't slip a playing card between their strategy and tactics over the last 150 years.<br /><br />The Right recognizes Good Bankers and demonizes Bad Bankers. Who almost without exception fall into the category of 'Rootless Cosmopolitans'.<br /><br />Dog Whistles don't just get heard by anti-black racists. There is a whole 2000 year history of such whistles heard by folks that in past centuries had never heard of Africa. The whole thing has been obscured by the Right's wholesale embrace of AIPAC and Likud but it comes right to the fore with every cry of 'Soros'.<br /><br />Same as it every was.Bruce Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222670342780912788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63773738128616100112014-01-23T22:27:35.605-05:002014-01-23T22:27:35.605-05:00My first reaction was similar to Victor's, alt...My first reaction was similar to Victor's, although from a slightly different angle: Wall Street's poodle is not exactly the best person to deliver this message. And my second reaction was the same as Steve's: the Tea Party has no coherent populist wing. It's a party of rage, rage at anything that sticks. They will rail against Wall Street and then accuse anyone of trying to do anything to reign Wall Street in as traitors and communists. The idea that a rational argument can convince these people that liberal policies would be in their best interests is fairy tale; there is <b>no</b> magic policy/messaging formula to split them from their masters. As Steve says, they are a tribe; they've implicitly accepted that their own self-interest is second to that of the tribe (though this is usually achieved by deluding themselves into believing that policies to help billionaires will help part-time McDonald's employees as well).<br /><br />On the other hand (as Obama likes to say), directing this at the Tea Party may be something of a head-fake. The true idea is probably just to further discredit the Tea Party in the eyes of everyone else. Weaving the theme of the Tea Party rank-and-file as foolish dupes into the message regarding inequality could be pretty effective if done well. People in the middle who really don't know what to think (and don't bother thinking about it too much) can still pick up on the idea that "Tea Party" = "kind of stupid". Booman has meditated on this idea regarding how being Republican used to be a status symbol in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, but now it's kind of embarrassing.sdhayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02354409528975596405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-81777175688837556032014-01-23T16:02:02.430-05:002014-01-23T16:02:02.430-05:00The teabaggers have a one word answer to the Kochs...The teabaggers have a one word answer to the Kochs: Soros!!Peter Janovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07590229306105292675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32096837854222865492014-01-23T14:46:23.397-05:002014-01-23T14:46:23.397-05:00Uhm...
I'm not sure having a Jewish Senator fr...Uhm...<br />I'm not sure having a Jewish Senator from the Communist state of NY deliver this message, is going to help this cause any.<br /><br />And yeah, Steve, you're right - it's purely tribal.<br />But then, so are we Liberals.<br /><br />The difference is, we're not a tribe of murdering sociopathic cannibals, who want to dine on the raw meat of their enemies.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com