ContraRarian

dailyanarchy:

“Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC … armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic?”

nomosshere:

Quite right about believing bullshit does not make it true.  Bullshit like Fox News promoting “anti-government, anti-tax protests” protests.  It’s called reporting the news. The recent protests are not “anti-government”, they are “smaller government.”  The difference is key.

OK. They are “smaller government” protests. But they are most certainly Anti-the-current-government. These people were not protesting when the Bush administration ran up insane debts and let the economy fall apart on their watch. And I’m sure you are intelligent enough to accept that the Republicans would have had to go along with bailing out the economy had they won the election…

And on my main point, these rallies, with all of the misinformation which goes with them, are heavily promoted by Fox News.

 The “Health Insurance Reform” act recently signed into law has a half trillion dollars in new taxes (including a tax on medical device manufacturers), including some that have gone into effect already.  Those new taxes called out as one of the “features”, because those new taxes, along with the proposed half billion dollars in cuts to Medicare at the federal level are supposed to make the whole thing “deficit neutral.”  Oh, don’t forget the VAT Tax that administration officials are starting to raise trial balloons about. Big government is expensive and somebody has to pay for it.

I dislike big inefficient government too. However, the healthcare bill which passed is very like proposals made by various Republicans over the years… And much of what is wrong with “Obamacare” could have been avoided if the Republicans had treated the debate positively, instead of continually throwing their toys out of the pram. Don’t take my word for it on that - plenty of people on the right are saying the same thing…

(Believe me, my friend, I’d wish a plague on all politicians houses - if only that wouldn’t screw the rest of us up too).

nomosshere:

That is from a Gallup poll of the general adult population, not a focused poll of voters or even likely voters.  Either Obama’s communications skills are not that great, and the population at large hasn’t gotten his often repeated claim that people making less than $250,000 year will not see their taxes go up, or they have heard him and don’t believe him.  Which do you think it is?

We have Fox News openly lying about people going to prison over healthcare, and openly promoting anti-government, anti-tax protests, and we have CNN trying to jump on their populist bandwagon, and you are “surprised” that people don’t trust the government? lolzor. People believing bullshit does not make it true.