Never knew cats and pizza were units of economic
measure
From all reports, it sounds like Democrats are going to go with the tried and true strategy for winning votes at the national level: class warfare.
Or, as the spin-meisters have christened it “Income inequality.”
Forget the hamburger flippers, what about those of us who are
employed to make the boss, who happens to be an early baby boomer liberal,
complete with not owning an ironing board, only dressing like a boss when a
visit with funders is scheduled (flannel shirts and stretch pants on an
executive director?) and superficial hand dirtying. Happens everywhere I
work.
Congress is a reflection of the national mood — divided, polarized, unhappy with the status quo, but lacking a majority to do a thing about it.As we head into the 2014 midterm elections, one thing is certain: Class warfare will be the campaign stage again — it is the only way this president knows how to win, by dividing and conquering — with the tea party, Main Street and businesses large and small cast as the villains. Real Clear Politics
Oh, goody, we get to be the bad guys again.
Psst: the people on Main Street, aka, business owners, are the ones
doing the employing. Drain them of cash, and there will be no jobs. Yes, it’s
that simple, morons.
BUT, and here’s the kicker, in order for the divide and conquer
strategy to work, the political right has to stay true to form and stay home on
election day if the perfect candidate(s) don’t survive the primaries:
So while Republicans are girding for what may be the most brutal rounds of primary fighting yet, Democrats are building their bases and uniting the party around “eat the rich” politics. It worked for Obama in 2012, and if it just works a little bit in 2014 it might be enough to save the day. If Democrats do it right, a few thousand votes in a few races could mean preserving the president’s agenda and keeping the health law lurching forward.
Combo platter: Welfare and wages - Republicans who dismiss this thinking will do so at their own peril. Senate majority leader Harry Reid will start the barrage on Monday with a call to restore federal benefits to those who have exhausted their state unemployment insurance. And soon thereafter, expect a strong push on raising the federal minimum wage, a popular policy offering. Republicans decried “class warfare” in 2012, but ended up getting clobbered anyway. The midterm electorate will be different, but just a few races on the bubble could change the arc of history this year. FoxNews
2014 is no time for some conservatives to simply declare frustration and demand they are now unwilling to participate in the 2014 Midterm Elections. I assure you, Barack Obama and the far left progressive/socialists that infest the Democratic Party, and yes, some of the Republican Party, are counting on you to do just that. They are convinced you will act so stupidly, so selfishly, and with such self-serving weakness. They are convinced that your oft repeated “love America” declarations are silly, half-witted empty posturing, and that you are far more comfortable merely complaining, without actually doing, anything to change the political course of this country.
Are we seriously going to prove them right? (Unfortunately, all
comments I’ve seen from right-leaning people are pointing in that
direction.)
Of course, there are a few voices out there decently articulating the
problems with class warfare as a policy strategy.
From Fox News:
Republicans such as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are ready for that debate but see a very different fix to the nation’s continuing economic woes.In a web video posted to mark the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” Rubio called that war a failure, and said more government intervention isn’t the way to help the poor.“After fifty years, isn’t it time to declare big government’s war on poverty a failure?” Rubio said. “Instead of continuing to borrow and spend trillions of dollars on government programs that don’t work, what our nation needs is a real agenda that helps people acquire the skills they need to lift themselves out of poverty and to pursue the American dream.”
Great. Whatcha got in mind? Anyone who makes that strong of a
statement needs to have an answer to the question. ($20 says Rubio’s talking
points haven’t evolved that far despite his assertions in the YouTube video…where he’s sounding very much like he wants a
better office.)
And that my fellow conservatives is the secret to the success of
class warfare: the left puts forth “solutions” to the issue, and the right can’t
rebutt them. The left’s answers, as we all know, are largely Robin Hood
socialism wrapped in a cloak of stars and stripes, but it’s solutions presented
that at least sound good. We have to beat them at their own game.
And in this country, since we’re more style than substance (or else
no one would have ever bought a PT Cruiser), and finding ways to make life
easier and less work is an obsession, the idea that acquiring skills and hard
work is going to be the answer to “lifting themselves out of poverty” is going
to be a hard sell when someone else has money the government can just raid and
redistribute.
So, what arrows do we have in the quivers?????
Anybody else getting a migraine thinking about the months
ahead?
More reading on the theme with many of the same quotes:
Class Warfare Takes Center Stage from Patriot Post
So It Begins, BO’s 2014 Class Warfare Machine
Starts Up from Before It’s News
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