Some free advice to “Democratic strategists” so take it for what it’s worth: if you’re going to call a presidential candidate a racist and a bigot on an international cable news channel then I’d suggest you get your facts straight, especially when you really object to being lumped in with the “brainwashed”….
Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher says there is a media “double-standard” over Herman Cain saying blacks have been “brainwashed.” Belcher calls Mr. Cain a bigot and a racist and says this incident is a “teachable moment.”
“Well — well, liberals didn’t have a history of Jim Crowe or slavery so it’s different.”
Well, if Cornell Belcher is referring to Democrats, one would think he would know they did do everything to expand slavery and create the Jim Crow laws as well as the Fugitive Slave Law and the Ku Klux Klan and… need I go on?
Next time, the Democrats should bring the A-team when they decide to offer up teachable moments on CNN.
Semantic games have corrupted people’s perception of reality. Neither the contemporary liberals nor the progressives are descendent from the original people who claimed that identity. Well, maybe a minority, but they have marginal influence on the left’s agendas.
The original liberals accepted the market as the leading economic structure. The original progressives acknowledged individual dignity and promoted policies to preserve it.
Contemporary fiscal conservatives are the classical liberals. The social conservatives were and are behind the movement to preserve individual dignity and value of life. They were the group which rejected slavery, discrimination, and progressive forms of involuntary exploitation, not for profit, but for principle. They are most closely matched with the original progressives.
The problem with the left is that when their ideology is progressive for its own sake it is corrupt. They are generational rebels with a cause and without a clue. For that reason, today’s progressive is tomorrow’s conservative.
Furthermore, it is the left’s principle to consolidate wealth and power through authority. It is their strategy to gain support through token redistribution schemes and always through coercion. They thrive on promoting division, creating classes, and setting each against the other.
The apostates that share principles with the left have left a bad impression of conservatives. American conservatives, both fiscal and social, need to get their house in order. Instant gratification is not a sustainable policy.
Platform of the Progressive Party (August 7, 1912)
Declaration of Principles of the Progressive Party
Liberalism
The issue of merit, for people acting in good faith, seems to be what constitutes “reasonable”. Incidentally, Keynes was also a classical liberal with a mind for “reasonable” compromise. He, unfortunately, believed that it was possible that a group of people, “civil servants”, could act rightly, when others would not. In this, he is both right and wrong; but, he also acknowledged that the power of the state must be limited, because the principal consideration was preserving the liberty of the people, and that responsibility could not be entirely entrusted to a civil service class.
They should have defined their principles before setting out to confront the details of life in a world with limited resources. They would have stood a much better chance of defining “reasonable” compromises with a sound foundation. As it was, they were fairly successful in their pursuit of positive progress.
In any case, the Democrats were and are failures. Their policies and motivations are flawed as they denigrate individual dignity, devalue human life, and promote progressive corruption of individuals and society. Unfortunately, the alternative, corruption in the exception, is still a threat to the individual and general welfare. Still, before coping with the natural state of corruption in the exception, it is necessary to control corruption as the rule.
Who the fuck is he? Generally, a college degree is supposed to insure you are not staggeringly ignorant. FAIL! Dude makes James Madison University look bad!
I bet his polls can’t be trusted either.
For it to be a “teachable moment”, you have to be teachable, not ignorantly entrenched in ideology.
Fail on both counts!
James Madison University’s got a lot of ‘splanin’ toooo doooo…
It’s begun – the “Uncle Tom”, and similar, epithets that are going to be heaped on Herman Cain, Allen West, etc. All blacks that are conservative are going to be attacked by the rabid dogs of the Left. Can’t they see the Great Unwashed Masses are slowly getting very wise to their methods? Blind ideology greases the skids on the Road to Hell.
Stay classy, Libs!
The Democrat strategy: Send in the clown, aka Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher. In Cornell’s case, his brain wasn’t washed by liberals because it was found to be clear of any knowledge of reality or the truth. This is a teachable moment for the dunce, Cornell, to wash out the liberal garbage info from his clogged brain.
Next time, Cornell, wear the red polka dot clown outfit so that people will think it’s just an act.