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Dismantling The Left in a Single Word: “Why?”
For years now I have been engaging in arguments with various lefties, from the typical casual liberal to the committed progressive to the more complicated personally-conservative social liberal (who never lowers themselves personally to the liberal standard, but is nonetheless outwardly supportive of liberalism for social connections or career reasons).
I am big on facts. The lefties I argue with are big on empty rhetoric. For years my initial reaction to any point made by a leftie is to bombard them with facts that completely and utterly destroy their argument. I thought that this was successful. To a certain extent, it is. I’ve never met a single leftie who could best me on the facts – I suppose this is because the vast, vast majority of lefties aren’t big on rational thought. I’ve even had people come up to me later and privately thank me for arguing with so-and-so, and that they themselves weren’t brave enough to stand up and do it for fear of losing a friend or whatever.
But the “success”, if you can call it that, was limited. Yes, I had won on paper, but it didn’t FEEL like a victory. My opponent left with the same absurdly smug aura of self-proclaimed righteousness with which he came. My cascading litany of facts and reason had fallen on deaf ears. I began to believe that these folks were unreachable, unbeatable. It did not matter how right I was or how wrong they were because their close-mindedness and intellectual bigotry would never allow them to engage in a substantive debate on the issues.
To someone like me, this defied logic. I am so driven by a desire to continually pursue the truth that it’s almost impossible for me to comprehend a person who can ignore that truth. But eventually it hit me: liberals do not see truth in the same terms as I do. Whether they realize it or not, whether they intended to or not, their ideology engages in explicit or de facto moral relativism. To them, “right and wrong” does not exist on a fixed linear scale.
To them, the ends justify the means.
In other words, “facts” are not absolute (and, therefore, not “facts” at all but rather tools for achieving a goal). No wonder these people were not swayed by my data. They naturally assumed that any fact with which I presented them was merely a tool that *I* was using to achieve my goal… because that’s what they would do in my position. This little intellectual loophole allows them to maintain their belief in their own righteousness no matter how many facts or rational counter-arguments are presented to destroy their ideology.
In a way, it’s bloody brilliant.
So lately my strategy has been shifting. Partly because I grew tired of long, relentless arguments in which I contributed copious amounts of detail only to have it cast aside or countered with some mind-numbingly inane bit of shallow “wisdom”. Partly because Breitbart identified the strategy first and began utilizing it himself.
Now, I just ask lefties to explain themselves. I simply ask “Why?”
Breitbart was brilliant, really. When he talked about challenging the left with the simple idea of asking them to rationalize their position, he explained that it naturally puts them on the defensive. Liberals aren’t used to having to explain themselves. They just dutifully repeat whatever glib talking point they happened to pick up that day, “RAAAAACIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSTTTT!!!!” being the most common lately. “Tax the rich!” is quickly taking over now that Romney is the presumptive nominee.
For a few months now I’ve been working on this. I admit, it’s hard for me. Pithiness is not my strong suit. But I have to say, it has yielded results. I do get a sweet satisfaction seeing lefties stumble over their own rationale, and it actually makes picking them apart easier. Where I used to deploy “shock and awe”, now I’m a careful sniper. I lure them onto my turf, let them think they can beat me at my own game, and then watch as they tangle themselves up in their own web of unsubstantiated rhetoric.
I can’t claim to have changed minds, but the strategy has definitely forced them to soften their argument. Where initially they were fervent in their position, by the end of the conversation they are subdued, even backtracking from their original stance. One person I recently debated even went from condemning all Republicans at the outset to openly calling for bipartisanship at the end.
This is not to say that simply asking “why?” is a complete substitute for facts and figures. On the contrary. While the typical “casual liberal” will never be able to explain his position, and you can dismantle him with very little effort, the committed progressive will actually be able to take it to the next level. He will come with a basic set of information with which to support his ideology. But remember, he will have one, or maybe two volleys at most. If you have three, you will probably win. If you have 5, you’re almost guaranteed a victory.
So know your stuff, friends, but I encourage you to try this out next time you’re arguing with a leftie. Channel your inner two-year-old. Make them enter your domain, make them commit to your playing field, make them explain WHY they are right, and please do report back and let us know how it goes!
Focus Group Needed: What do you know about Voter Fraud?
ACTION ITEM: Can you spare 15-30 minutes today to spend a little time over at DEFENDtheVOTE.com to look at the information presented there on Voter Fraud? If you haven’t heard of DtV before, it’s an organization here in Chicago led by Sharon Meroni that’s filing lawsuits and other direct challenges to the Illinois State Board of Elections to force a cleanup of the voter registration rolls to prevent the dead from voting and eliminate the potential for mischief at various points in the election process.
WHAT’S NEEDED: Take a look around the site and chime in below in comments with how well you understand what DtV is trying to communicate.
Does it make sense to you?
Do you understand what contributes to voter fraud in Illinois by reading DtV’s presentation of facts?
Do you see how you can become a Vote Defender and what that would mean?
I am incredibly serious when I say that I want to really step up efforts to pick up the slack now that Andrew Breitbart is gone. If you want to do the same, please see Action Items like this as a valuable way you can contribute to the effort too. I have wanted to make stopping voter fraud in Illinois a priority for the longest time, but one thing or another always got in the way. I absolutely refuse, however, to not do everything I can to eliminate as much fraud as possible between now and the November election.
DtV really needs some focus group testing on their site’s content as they build their big push towards the November election. Your feedback is vital — and it will be compiled and passed on to Sharon Meroni herself so that she can manage her message and communicate her material in the best way possible.
My hope is to find an Action Item like this every day that would take about 15-30 minutes to do so that if you want to be one of the people who help pick up Andrew Breitbart’s torch, we’ll find an easy yet important way for you to do that. Because I will be absolutely damned if I allow that great man’s life’s mission to end with his passing. Not on my watch — and I hope not on yours either.
Thoughts?
“Be Breitbart, Baby”
I spent a good portion of today monitoring the positively horrible postings on various Leftist sites and on the Facebook accounts of proud adherents of “The Tolerant Left” — observing the absolute glee they’re taking in Andrew Breitbart’s sudden death yesterday.
If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll know I trot out “the Death Star obliterating Alderaan” analogy quite frequently — because the scene resonates with me in especially trying times, as it’s one of the earliest memories I have of seeing something up on a movie screen (having most likely seen it for the first time during one of the pre-VHS re-releases of Star Wars). The Tolerant Left today is behaving much the way I imagine those in the high echelons of the Galactic Empire behaved upon hearing news of the first successful firing of the Death Star and the obliteration of Senator Leia Organa’s home world. “Ha ha! Take that! That’ll teach her!” is an echo of the jubilation in Leftist ranks today with the loss of the great General of the American Resistance who was Andrew Breitbart — himself a 21st Century echo of a Thomas Payne/Paul Revere/George Thomas hybrid.
If you’re a Star Wars fan, you know well that anyone in the Empire who celebrated the destruction of Alderaan (and the deaths of billions of its inhabitants) was an absolute fool (on top of being a sick and pathetic degenerate who celebrates the death of ANYONE) because the loss of Alderaan galvanized a galaxy and sent millions of talented, creative, and impassioned people into the ranks of the rebellion. “For Alderaan” was their mission statement and clarion call.
Today I sent an email out to my personal list of friends asking them to step up their efforts in whatever way they could to help fill the incalculable void left by Andrew Breitbart’s death. One of my good friends, HB contributor “The Tamminator”, responded by telling me her new personal mission statement in life is to “Be Breitbart, Baby!”. She says she already used it in a conversation she had this afternoon with another conservative activist — and at the close of their talk, he told her to “Be Breitbart!” and she said “Be Breitbart!” back to him instead of “goodbye”.
In whatever way you can, please “Be Breitbart” a little every day from now on.
If you didn’t consider yourself a part of the American Resistance already, please induct yourself with a pledge of “Being Breitbart” too.
Andrew Breitbart was an important part of the Resistance whose unique gifts were crucial to our cause…but I know in my heart there is someone reading this right now whose talents could possibly be even greater — but you just have never put your talent out there.
Maybe you didn’t think you were good enough…or strong enough…or brave enough.
Maybe you were afraid of what the Tolerant Left would do to you or your family if you got involved.
Maybe you sat back because Andrew Breitbart was already out there doing the heavy lifting.
With him gone, it’s time for you to be Breitbart, baby.
I am beyond heartbroken this remarkable man is dead. There are no words to describe how sickened I am that the Tolerant Left has seized his death as a cause for perverse rapture. All I can think to do in response to any of this is to “be Breitbart, baby”.
A little every day.
Then a little more until I get the handle of it.
I’ll never be as in-your-face as he was…or as salty and aggressive…since that’s not my personal style. But I’m going to start challenging myself to do more with video and social networking than I’ve ever done before. My friend Megan Fox and I talked today and we’re going to start our radio show back up, despite the cost to keep it going, because it’s a way for us to “be Breitbart” on the air now that his voice is silenced. “The Tamminator” and I decided to launch a very special project of our own, committing to something we’d talked about many times but never decided to put into action until now…and it’s something Andrew Breitbart would have gotten to himself eventually if he’d lived a little longer.
Whether they realize it or not, I see a lot of other people in the conservative writing world picking up on the spirit of “Be Breitbart, Baby”. I hope above everything else that the verb “to Breitbart” comes into regular usage and it stands for “absolutely bedeviling the Tolerant Left, exposing their hypocrisy, and collapsing the Cocktail Party GOP establishment while driving the Elite Media insane”.
Be Breitbart, Baby!
B3 for short.
In whatever way you can.
Does This Image Sum Up Voter Fraud to YOU?
[Click above to embiggen: does this image convey voter fraud to you?]
Last week, I was appalled at what I witnessed at a public meeting of the Illinois Board of Elections and have been fuming over it ever since.
I went down to the Thompson Center here in Chicago to hear Sharon Meroni of DEFENDtheVOTE.com speak to the Board and was disgusted by the rude and dismissive way she was treated — most especially by Board Chair William McGuffage and Vice Chair Jesse Smart (who I’m now — and forever — calling “the ironically-named Mr. Smart”). At the Board Meeting, McGuffage kept telling Meroni to, essentially, shut up about voter fraud already and in so many words said that the Board is fully aware of all the fraud that takes place in Illinois elections — and they don’t much care.
The ironically-named Mr. Smart (just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) threw a tantrum at the start of the meeting, insisting that Meroni and other members of the public were not allowed to film the proceedings. Mr. Smart, though Vice Chair of the Board, had evidently never heard of the Illinois Open Meetings Act — which requires meetings like this to be open to the public where anyone can film using whatever recording device he or she wishes. Smart very stupidly wasted close to ten minutes’ of Meroni’s allotted speaking time arguing with her about her right to film the meeting…until the Board’s General Counsel had to step in and shout Smart down so Meroni could proceed.
Do you know what Smart did then? He pouted, folded his arms, and said, “Well, if you’ll be filming this then I just won’t say nothing ’cause you might try to make me look stupid or something”. He then spent the remainder of the meeting passing notes and giggling with the woman sitting next to him, like they were in junior high school sex ed class and couldn’t contain their immaturity.
Another Board Member. Harold Byers, slept through most of the meeting; at one point, I was actually concerned he had died, until I started following a small feather or dust bunny that zoomed around his head, riding his exhales and inhales like those paragliders I’ve seen at cliffside vacation resorts. When he finally awoke, near the end of the meeting, he was incredibly well-rested but intensely grumpy. Soon after he moved for the meeting to be adjourned. I think that was because he was late for his scheduled nap somewhere else in the building.
Absolutely NONE of the people on the Illinois Board of Elections took any of what Meroni came to speak about seriously.
Meroni has prepared a detailed report on all sorts of election fraud that’s rampant in Illinois — including dead people voting, people voting in the names of cartoon characters, illegal aliens running polling centers and casting ballots unlawfully, electronic voting machines stealing votes, and labor unions deliberately leaving boxes of ballots unsecured at various “processing points” so that elections can turn out the way political parties want them to.
Meroni’s testimony was riveting — so it truly astonishes me the Board of Elections could so blatantly ignore he (or sleep through her presentation).
Honestly, I want to make it one of my missions in life to shame these people…and to shame Governor Quinn so badly that he’s ultimately forced to replace every current Board Member with someone who will actually do his or her job.
I’ve been working with my boyfriend Justin on putting together a graphic that captures the spirit of voter fraud and the battle to eliminate it. The above is what we’ve come up with so far. It’s going to be part of a larger banner we’re making for a very special project.
What do you think of it so far?
Does it communicate “Voter Fraud” and problems with our elections quickly and clearly to someone glancing at it?
The first step to shaming every last member of the do-nothing, sleeps-through-meetings, dumber-than-rocks Illinois Board of Elections is to make it ridiculously clear how messed up the elections system is here in Illinois and how much voter fraud runs rampant in Chicagoland in particular.
Does this image convey this to you?
Have You Discovered Your Talent Yet — And Are You Ready to Employ It in the 2012 Elections?
Sometimes, the opening theme to “Challenge of the Superfriends” plays in my head when I start thinking about all the various forces aligned against America’s best interests today.
On that show — a favorite of mine as a little boy with jet black hair growing up in Cleveland (where the easiest and most-often deployed Halloween costumes were always Superman, James Bond, or Dracula) — the most sinister villains of all time banded together from remote galaxies to whale on everything good and decent in the world; it took a revolutionary and unlikely team-up of eclectic and unique individuals, with different talents, to thwart the “Legion of Doom”.
So it is now, in 2012, with George Soros (the closest this world has ever seen to a non-cartoon version of Lex Luthor) and the assemblage of Leftists, anarchists, Communists, Islamists, and lunatics (but I repeat myself) who’ve long colluded with the would-be aristocrats in the Cocktail Party establishment’s permanent political class to actively plot against America and all that our nation stands for.
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I Stop Dead People From Voting
UPDATE: Thanks to my boyfriend Justin for the great graphics work on the above.
Start familiarizing yourselves with the content over at www.DefendTheVote.com. The challenge is to make the technical investigations into Voter Fraud and Irregularities interesting to the public at large so people stop allowing this stuff to happen. Currently, both political parties condone, encourage, and actively engage in voter fraud (including the dead voting) — and they get away with it because it takes so much effort for most people to understand what’s going on.
My goal is to use the current fascination with zombies in pop culture to turn the tables on The Tolerant Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment — and to recruit an army of Vote Defenders coast-to-coast who will do to voter fraud what Buffy and other Slayers did to vampires and other McNasties in Sunnydale.
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ORIGINAL POST:
Just imagine the next time you’re at some function — a cocktail party even — and someone comes up to you and asks, “What do you do?”.
Typically, you’d answer, “I’m an accountant” or “I work in PR” or “I’m a lion tamer”, as the case may be — but think about saying “I stop the dead from voting” from now on. Sure would lead to a more interesting conversation than discussing the wonders of TPS reports or who you might know in common in the Boise, Idaho pharmaceuticals field. “I stop the dead from voting” would be the most interesting and memorable introduction and/or opening line…particularly if you were, indeed, someone who made it their personal mission to do just that.
I’m trying to work up a great graphic for this but have zero artistic ability. The above is where I’ve gotten so far, but it needs work — I want it to look like zombies are slouching towards a ballot box, freshly risen from their graves and determined to cast votes in an election to tip the scales one way or the other (as has been happening for far too long in this country). Maybe the zombies can be holding ballots…and obviously the rough edges need to be cleaned up. Creating graphics is difficult for me since I don’t know how to Photoshop, but maybe someone out there who has such a talent will feel inspired.
We’re less than nine months away from the most important election in our lifetime. I know the elite, agenda-driven media claims every election is the “most important ever”, but this time it’s true. Either America will be irreparably “transformed” in Barack Obama’s second term…or he’ll be booted from office before he can do any more damage to our country. I want to do everything possible to ensure that the Tolerant Left — and people like George Soros who fund it — doesn’t succeed in re-electing Obama by using dead people to tip the scales.
You can help.
By becoming someone who stops the dead from voting.
Answering that call…like Buffy did when she became a Slayer…or the Winchester Brothers did when they became Hunters — depending on what generation (or gender) of evil-thwarting, monster ass-kicker you are.
Consider this your invitation to join a Council of Election Watchers — identifying instances of the dead voting across the country, in a coordinated effort to join forces to keep ghouls in their tombs on election day and prevent zombies from stuffing the ballot boxes (on the unholy orders of either party).
I am sick to death of this happening over and over again — with neither party (Republican nor Democrat) ever doing anything about it. It’s just like every TV show that’s ever existed where it’s left up to a ragtag group of ordinary people to band together to defeat the monsters bedeviling the town, because the Cocktail Party-ing establishment doesn’t want to upset its precarious apple cart by addressing the fact that DEAD PEOPLE ARE WALKING AROUND (or are voting!).
How about it?
How about using your individual talents to stop the dead from voting in 2012?
Stay tuned in the next few days for the HOW in terms of getting involved…but I wanted to prime the pump by bringing it to your attention that YOU are the voting dead’s worst nightmare…YOU are the Slayer that will thwart them…YOU are the Hunter who will keep them in their graves in November…YOU are the vote defenders and ghoul busters who will FINALLY — at long last — put a stop to voter fraud from beyond the grave in this country.
It’s your destiny…if, of course, you’ll accept it and start seeing yourself as someone put on this Earth to achieve just that.
IDEAS NEEDED: Creating A Graphic for “The Voting Dead” Anti-Voter Fraud Effort
UPDATE: This is an image from “The Walking Dead” comics.
I’d love to find a font that could create “The Voting Dead” and replace the words “The Walking Dead” in the above.
I’d also love to replace the little boy with the gun (Carl in the comics) with something that symbolized voting…like a good image of a voting booth that people would recognize.
I don’t want to use the actual graphic from the comics as that’s copyrighted material, but parody statues allow leeway in making a point for political purposes. What would be great is if someone who was an artist could create new zombies that achieve the same effect as this picture…a herd of zombies headed to the ballot box for election day.
I really want to keep this nonpartisan too, because both Democrats and Republicans are complicit in voter fraud and neither party wants this to stop because the permanent political class enjoys having a fraud-riddled system. If you doubt that’s true, then you need to take a look at what happened in Maine on February 11th, 2012 when the Cocktail Party GOP establishment rigged the caucus for a Romney win. They used many of the same tactics that the Obama campaign used in 2008 to rig the Iowa caucus for Barack Obama…so it’s as clear as day that both parties enjoy having caucuses because they are easy to game through fraud.
So, we need a graphic that does not invoke Democrats or Republicans, but instead just focuses on the fact that we have a system in this country that allows the dead to vote in elections. That should absolutely horrify people.
“The Voting Dead” could be an awareness-raising campaign that draws attention to this.
These are the good guys in “The Walking Dead” TV show.
What I want to communicate to people is that EVERYONE out there has a chance to be a vote-defending hero — and stand tall like one of these good guys — by getting involved to prevent the dead from voting in this country.
Instead of guns and baseball bats, we’d need to symbolize this with other things that help prevent voter fraud.
What can you think of for that?
Video cameras, iPhones, iPads, lap tops, telephones, election statutes, whistles (for whistle-blowing), etc…
I will tell you honestly that my boyfriend Justin is the best live-in, always-available focus group that I’ve ever encountered. He is the kindest, sweetest, and most gentle person I have ever met. He’s a Millennial, so he also has the attention span of a gnat…and he’s drawn to video games like a moth to its flame. When he comes home, I know I have, at most, ten minutes’ of his attention before he sinks in his chair and is lost in Goblin Quest or some other ridiculous online game for the rest of the night.
Whenever I talk about voter fraud, his eyes glaze over — he is mad it happens, but thinks it’s too complicated and confusing to hear about. It depresses him that things like the Maine Caucus happen, and that Republicans are involved in this stuff too. So, he wants to lose himself in the video games.
“The Voting Dead” idea held his interest, though. “Stopping the dead from voting” is an exciting concept for him. He just talked to me about it for an hour, and would have kept talking if I didn’t take a phone call. Of course, he’s back to the video games now, but for a full hour he was engaged in the voter fraud stuff and was helping to think of ways to get people’s attention on this.
There’s definitely SOMETHING to this “The Voting Dead” idea…now the trick is fleshing it out.
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ORIGINAL POST:
What images come to mind when you think of voter fraud in this country?
I’m tired of it. And I’m tired of letting days go by without doing anything about it.
I’m still truly rattled by Whitney Houston’s death this weekend. You might not understand why, because Whitney was sort of my muse and house diva here in Boystown…if I had a ship, she’d have been the figurehead — other gay guys would choose Madonna or Kylie or Gaga or Cher…but mine was Whitney. With her passing, I’m thinking about all the things she won’t get to do (like have her big comeback)…and I also think about all the years she lost to drug abuse and the dysfunctional relationship with Bobby Brown.
We’re all only dancing on this world for a short time. Every day really is precious, and there’s no guarantee we’ll have x-number of tomorrows.
I’ve started thinking about what I want my life to mean and what things I really want to accomplish. I have a little list that’s forming that looks something like:
* be a good partner to Justin
* be a good friend to the people I care about
* burn the Democrat Party to the ground and punish everyone who is responsible for the Obama presidency
* decimate the Cocktail Party GOP establishment and punish everyone who is responsible for the McCain and Romney campaigns (presuming Romney becomes the nominee and loses to Obama like McCain four years ago)
* expose the true extent of voter fraud in this country and force a securing of our electoral system
* eliminate Caucuses and force all states to hold primaries with secure ballots
* enact photo ID check in every state for voting
* take the school system back from the Leftists
* convince fellow gays it’s time to leave the Democrats’ plantation and start voting in our economic best interests
* bring down the Race Industry and make it impossible for the Tolerant Left to ever falsely call anyone a racist again
It’s a tall order, I know. But if I can do something to make a little progress on any of these things, I’d be so proud and beyond happy — and I’d think I lived a good and full life that made the most of every day I had on the planet.
There’s less than nine months until the next national election — but that’s enough time to raise awareness about voter fraud. I especially want to expose the fact that the permanent political class in both parties turns a blind eye to dead people voting…and to other hijinks that happen every election.
Zombie movies and TV shows are incredibly popular right now — one way to raise awareness about voter fraud is to tie into that and create images that play into the theme that YOU, too, can combat the zombie hordes by taking part in anti-voter fraud efforts that will keep these ghouls in their tombs on election day (instead of casting ballots for Democrats in places like Chicago).
What if an anti-voter fraud effort could be crafted to hold the public’s interest the way shows like “The Walking Dead” do? Sort of a “The Voting Dead”.
There are other issues with voting, too — such as college students voting in two states every election (absentee via their parents’ address and then on their college campuses too), electronic voting machines skewing results using fraud, the political parties “losing” or destroying vote counts during caucuses (as happened this year in Iowa and Maine in efforts to tip those elections to Romney), and Democrats busing homeless people to different polling stations to vote multiple times in the same day (since without a residence, it’s easier to game the system using the homeless than it is just about anyone else, including the dead).
Are you tired of this garbage too?
Brainstorm some attention-getting ideas that could go into a graphic to spread the word about the prevalence of voter fraud…and how ordinary people can become zombie-slaying vote defenders in their spare time.
How awesome would it be the next time you’re at some stuffy function and a jackass asks you, “So, what do you do?” — and you can say, “I stop the dead from voting and keep zombies in their tombs on election day”.
Thoughts?
