It is no coincidence that the Republicans give lip service to so many causes while actually ignoring them, or worse, working to undermine them. It is their modus operandi. This is how con-men work.
Confidence schemes only work if the victims are properly distracted and properly misled. Con men steal people's money by simultaneously appealing to their self interest, while secretly working to undermine it.
George C. Scott’s famous quote from the movie, The Flimflam Man; “you can't cheat an honest man”, is unfortunately untrue. Con-men can, and often do cheat honest men.
The Republican Party of George Bush and Dick Cheney is nothing like the Republican Party of days gone by. They have rapidly and recklessly morphed the Republican Party into a gang of modern day con men.
The Walter Reed, VA Hospital scandal clearly makes this point. The Republicans continually bash Democrats for not supporting our troops because the Democrats want to bring the troops home. The whole time the neo-cons are yelling and screaming about the Democrats wanting to cut and run, they are actually cutting veterans benefits and letting wounded soldiers languish in appalling conditions without proper care. For the neo-cons, our troops are pawns in their political games, acting as both cannon fodder for their elective war, and a bludgeon to attack Democrats with.
Other examples of their con man methods abound. Everything from their Clear Skies Initiative to their Healthy Forests Initiative to the Patriot Act to the no Child left Behind Act does exactly the opposite of what the name implies. The clear skies initiative permits more pollution by industry, the healthy forests initiative permits more logging, and the patriot act would never have been signed by true patriots. The no Child left behind act leaves many children far behind.
It has gotten to the point where you can literally assume that the administration will be feverishly working to do the exact opposite of what they say in public. When President Bush insists in a speech that domestic spying requires a warrant, you can be darn sure they are bypassing the FISA court. When the president declares that he values the Constitution, you know that he actually thinks it's a quaint old document that does not apply to him. When Bush said in public that they are not planning for attacks on Iran, you can be sure that carrier battle groups have already been dispatched and that the planning is well underway.
The neo-cons chose an oddly appropriate name for their movement. Based on their MO, you would have thought they would have called themselves the “Honest Party”. At least that way they would have been consistent.
Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.
this is how the Republicvans operate they are masters of Hitlers big lie.If you say something often enough and long enough people will begin to believe it especially if you have the propoganda resources to keep spreading that lie.The Republicans have long used the tactic of giving a sick program a sweet sounding name its not just since the neo=cons.Take the right to work laws which are really laws to destroy unions and decent wages.
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liberalsrock (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 107 comments)
on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 9:14:14 AM
The Republican party has been moving in this direction for some time, but I think that the Rove influence has dramatically accelerated the shift. I think he is the "reverse jargon" guy who came up with the idea of twisting their descriptions of everything they do. It keeps Democrats off base and frustrated, and keeps the Republican base happy.
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John R Moffett (78 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 587 comments)
on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 9:48:41 AM
Few Democrats have the ability express thoughts, ideas, or feelings coherently. Many of them babble incessantly but say nothing, which is strange considering that politics is the art of persuasion and effective communication skills would seem to be a prerequisite for a career in politics. Are Democrats inarticulate because their core values are not easily expressed in words? Or, are they so insecure about their core values that they dare not express them?
Egalitarian values have been scorned and rejected by multitudes since Jesus first expressed them and perhaps the fear of being crucified as he was, still lingers.
Republicans have no such problem, even though their core values (intolerance, selfishness and greed) are vile.
What curious creatures we are.
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rabblerowzer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 227 comments)
on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 9:51:01 AM
I am not sure that they are inarticulate. Even Fox "News" admits that Senator Obama, for example, is articulate.
The difference is that all Republicans get a "talking points" memo every morning that tells them what to say that day, spelled out in simple catch phrases. This makes them sound "more articulate", when it really means simply that they can say what they are told to say.
Democrats don't have daily, party-given talking points, and tend to say more or less what is on their mind. The result is often less "on-message".
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John R Moffett (78 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 587 comments)
on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 3:28:54 PM
They are cons in two other senses too: they are against most everything that normal people want, and many of were , are, or (hopefully) will be 'cons' -- convicts -- indicted criminals. They're gangsters.
Too many Democrats either go along with them -- some being gangsters themselves, just from a rival gang -- or enablers, or too dumb, greedy or cowardly to stand up for what is right, legal and Constitutional.
People are beginning to understand the reality, but many don't know what to do about it or realize yet how serious it is. Some speak of overthrowing the parties of government, but that won't work: what we need to do is 'underthrow' the government: reform it from the bottom up, grassroots, and that's going to take a lot of time and effort to do. This corruption has been a long time in the making. We can't fix it in a day or month, but the first step is to understand that the nation IS being run by con men and gangsters.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 998 comments)
on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 11:25:30 AM
