"Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder."-George Washington
Background:
What Is The Southern Strategy & What Is The History Of The Southern Strategy?
GOP-Republican's Southern Strategy Exposed 1
GOP-Republican's Southern Strategy Exposed 2
GOP-Republican's Southern Strategy EXPOSED: Mitt Takes One Of Obama's Comments Out Of Context & Makes It His Campaign Strategy!
Background:
What Is The Southern Strategy & What Is The History Of The Southern Strategy?
GOP-Republican's Southern Strategy Exposed 1
GOP-Republican's Southern Strategy Exposed 2
GOP-Republican's Southern Strategy EXPOSED: Mitt Takes One Of Obama's Comments Out Of Context & Makes It His Campaign Strategy!
The key using a racist political strategy in our age (in the USA) requires telling your subjects that you and they are not racist. The fact that everyone who is not in your group can tell it's a racist political strategy doesn't matter because no one in your group will listen to anyone else. They are basically hypnotized/programmed individuals who believe they are right, are on the right side and are not racist though they obviously are. Dumb? I can't be sure. American's are very dumb to begin with... the fact that there is a whole segment of the population who believed Obama was the Anti-Christ (which has since then been modified to "Hidden Muslim") suggests a large segment of the US population (about 25%) is mentally ill. The other 25% o the GOP base isn't necessarily mentally ill (though they sometimes act like it) but just so dumb, racist (but don't tell em that! They hate self-reflection or being told what they are. Fantasy land is the permanent domain of the conservatives who aren't outright liars) and trusting that they will do whatever their leaders tell em to do. They will believe whatever their leaders tell em to believe. That may be why Bill O Reilly constantly calls Muslims 'tribal in nature' cause he doesn't want his base to realize that he is projecting their faults onto a GOP desired enemy the way individuals often project their fears & inner beliefs onto others (i.e. "The Shadow Problem" of the human psyche).
{Reality is that all large groups are tribal in nature. Even facebook groups of friends are tribal in nature. It's more of a human thing than a Muslim thing. What Fox News has is a bunch of people who are dumber and thus more obsessed with conforming to their group than any other American group, except maybe the Libertarians, but they call themselves 'smart individuals with the capability of individual and creative thought'. It's strange to see a bunch of people saying and believing that while parroting what they heard on Fox News or Fox Business but I see it all the time.}
{Reality is that all large groups are tribal in nature. Even facebook groups of friends are tribal in nature. It's more of a human thing than a Muslim thing. What Fox News has is a bunch of people who are dumber and thus more obsessed with conforming to their group than any other American group, except maybe the Libertarians, but they call themselves 'smart individuals with the capability of individual and creative thought'. It's strange to see a bunch of people saying and believing that while parroting what they heard on Fox News or Fox Business but I see it all the time.}
The liberal media catches Bill O'Reilly's racist compliment about Asians... (This video is a great introduction to how a master Sophist uses the Southern Strategy, i.e. racism, and gets people to think he's being nice. If the video below doesn't work you can watch it by clicking here)
The Colbert Report
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2:15 Notice how Bill O Reilly (& all his tribal followers) use a compliment with an insult as a decoy
3:00 The reference Stephen Colbert makes to 'Vietnamese swinging on vines' is how the Southern Strategy is used i.e. O Reilly's Colleagues View: Vietnamese as backwards and monkey like... but man can they paint!
3:00 The reference Stephen Colbert makes to 'Vietnamese swinging on vines' is how the Southern Strategy is used i.e. O Reilly's Colleagues View: Vietnamese as backwards and monkey like... but man can they paint!
Newt Gingrich Janitor Idea Won't Solve Jobs Crisis
During Monday night's Republican debate in South Carolina, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich continued to promote his controversial strategy to fight both child poverty and the jobs crisis: New York City janitors who make "an absurd amount of money" should be fired and replaced by poor schoolchildren, he said.
"You could take one janitor and hire 30-some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor," Gingrich said. "And those 30 kids would be a lot less likely to drop out. They would actually have money in their pocket."
The idea captures Gingrich's spin on two popular right-wing economic claims: Union workers are overpaid and the poor simply need to work harder to improve their lives.
In South Carolina, Gingrich didn't define an "absurd amount of money," but earlier this month he said, incorrectly, that an entry-level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry-level teacher. Not only do Gingrich's calculations assume janitors earn much more than they actually do, his theory is deeply flawed, and would likely harm impoverished communities, not help them, researchers say.
The top salary for a New York City public school cleaner -- who generally does the type of work that Gingrich imagines schoolchildren might do -- is $37,710, or $18.13 an hour, according to the Service Employees International Union, which represents all 5,000 janitors. Divided among 30 kids, that would be some $1,257 a year, or a little over $24 a week. Meanwhile, the starting salary for a first-year teacher with no advanced degree is $45,530, more than a cleaner.
It's true that some workers classified as janitors make a decent living (by New York City standards): Custodial engineers in the New York City public school system can earn a top salary of $114,000 a year, but they start around $56,000 a year, and they work as supervisors -- not "entry-level" janitors. Along with supervising other custodians, their job responsibilities include repairing heating and electrical equipment and inspecting buildings. The work requires a high school diploma, or equivalent, along with years of experience, according to the New York City Department of Education.
Either way, if any of those janitorial positions were filled by schoolchildren, labor experts point out, the U.S. would have one less decently paying job.
Satire: "Larry Wilmore cracks Newt Gingrich's code for inner city government subsidy recipients." (If video below isn't working click here)
During Monday night's Republican debate in South Carolina, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich continued to promote his controversial strategy to fight both child poverty and the jobs crisis: New York City janitors who make "an absurd amount of money" should be fired and replaced by poor schoolchildren, he said.
"You could take one janitor and hire 30-some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor," Gingrich said. "And those 30 kids would be a lot less likely to drop out. They would actually have money in their pocket."
The idea captures Gingrich's spin on two popular right-wing economic claims: Union workers are overpaid and the poor simply need to work harder to improve their lives.
In South Carolina, Gingrich didn't define an "absurd amount of money," but earlier this month he said, incorrectly, that an entry-level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry-level teacher. Not only do Gingrich's calculations assume janitors earn much more than they actually do, his theory is deeply flawed, and would likely harm impoverished communities, not help them, researchers say.
The top salary for a New York City public school cleaner -- who generally does the type of work that Gingrich imagines schoolchildren might do -- is $37,710, or $18.13 an hour, according to the Service Employees International Union, which represents all 5,000 janitors. Divided among 30 kids, that would be some $1,257 a year, or a little over $24 a week. Meanwhile, the starting salary for a first-year teacher with no advanced degree is $45,530, more than a cleaner.
It's true that some workers classified as janitors make a decent living (by New York City standards): Custodial engineers in the New York City public school system can earn a top salary of $114,000 a year, but they start around $56,000 a year, and they work as supervisors -- not "entry-level" janitors. Along with supervising other custodians, their job responsibilities include repairing heating and electrical equipment and inspecting buildings. The work requires a high school diploma, or equivalent, along with years of experience, according to the New York City Department of Education.
Either way, if any of those janitorial positions were filled by schoolchildren, labor experts point out, the U.S. would have one less decently paying job.
Satire: "Larry Wilmore cracks Newt Gingrich's code for inner city government subsidy recipients." (If video below isn't working click here)
Previous Statement by Newt Gingrich:“Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works,” the former House speaker said at a campaign event at the Nationwide Insurance offices. “So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it’s illegal.”
Satire: "Wyatt Cenac analyzes why it took Newt Gingrich so long to be condescending and dickish to African Americans." (If video below isn't working click here)
Satire: "Wyatt Cenac analyzes why it took Newt Gingrich so long to be condescending and dickish to African Americans." (If video below isn't working click here)
News Reports:
Gingrich to black people: paychecks, not food aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.
Gingrich told a town hall meeting at a senior center in Plymouth, N.H., that if the NAACP invites him to its annual convention this year, he'd go there and talk about "why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps."
He also said he'd pitch a new Social Security program aimed at helping young people, particularly African-American males, who he said get the smallest return on Social Security.
Gingrich routinely lambasts President Barack Obama as the "best food stamp president in American history." He also has spoken previously about welcoming an invitation from the NAACP to speak and has been critical of GOP candidates who have not accepted such an invitation.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had no immediate comment on Gingrich's remarks. His campaign spokesman, R.C. Hammond, said the former Georgia congressman has often said the GOP needs to be inclusive of all Americans.
"He has said since he became a presidential candidate that any Republican should always accept an invitation to speak to the NAACP on any topic," Hammond said.
One response...
Why Won’t Black People Let Newt Gingrich Help Them?
Those are the white people, and the good ones (the good ones are the black people that Newt isn’t talking about. You know, the exceptions to the rule). Why the difference? You think it’s because of skin color, but it’s not. As Newt has explained, time and again, it’s because black people haven’t learned how to work. That sounds racist, but he’s not saying they can’t work, or don’t want to work, but that America (and more specifically, liberals) haven’t taught them how to work. Newt’s a historian, remember, and black people do have a history of disproportionate poverty and unemployment that white people don’t.
My fellow liberals attacked Newt Gingrich when he made a series of factual observations about black children, and the example their parents set for them. First, he sensibly recommended that 9-12 year-old children in “poor neighborhoods” (you know what that means, right? “Urban?”) should clean toilets so they would learn to “show up on Monday.”
Gingrich to black people: paychecks, not food aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.
Gingrich told a town hall meeting at a senior center in Plymouth, N.H., that if the NAACP invites him to its annual convention this year, he'd go there and talk about "why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps."
He also said he'd pitch a new Social Security program aimed at helping young people, particularly African-American males, who he said get the smallest return on Social Security.
Gingrich routinely lambasts President Barack Obama as the "best food stamp president in American history." He also has spoken previously about welcoming an invitation from the NAACP to speak and has been critical of GOP candidates who have not accepted such an invitation.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had no immediate comment on Gingrich's remarks. His campaign spokesman, R.C. Hammond, said the former Georgia congressman has often said the GOP needs to be inclusive of all Americans.
"He has said since he became a presidential candidate that any Republican should always accept an invitation to speak to the NAACP on any topic," Hammond said.
One response...
Why Won’t Black People Let Newt Gingrich Help Them?
Those are the white people, and the good ones (the good ones are the black people that Newt isn’t talking about. You know, the exceptions to the rule). Why the difference? You think it’s because of skin color, but it’s not. As Newt has explained, time and again, it’s because black people haven’t learned how to work. That sounds racist, but he’s not saying they can’t work, or don’t want to work, but that America (and more specifically, liberals) haven’t taught them how to work. Newt’s a historian, remember, and black people do have a history of disproportionate poverty and unemployment that white people don’t.
My fellow liberals attacked Newt Gingrich when he made a series of factual observations about black children, and the example their parents set for them. First, he sensibly recommended that 9-12 year-old children in “poor neighborhoods” (you know what that means, right? “Urban?”) should clean toilets so they would learn to “show up on Monday.”
Moment Of Zen: Practical Applications Of The Southern Strategy
"When you push the demonization of populations, you often end up with violence," —Heidi Beirich, research director for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Note: How can the following types of perspectives not lead to violence? (if the video below isn't working click here). Note how being a conservative means you can say anything and get away with it ... why can it not apply to DOING anything and getting away with it? The GOP can do what it likes, pretty much, as long as they don't hurt "conservatives"...
Note: How can the following types of perspectives not lead to violence? (if the video below isn't working click here). Note how being a conservative means you can say anything and get away with it ... why can it not apply to DOING anything and getting away with it? The GOP can do what it likes, pretty much, as long as they don't hurt "conservatives"...
Basically, with the Southern Strategy it's possible for a leader to do whatever he wants and blame it on whoever he wants providing it's not a rich white guy - and in big cases such as Iraq (see links below) - as long as he doesn't blame conservatives. I like to sometimes describe the Southern Strategy in this manner:
"You kill a group of people, your insane. You kill hundreds of thousands, your a conqueror. You blame others for your problems and kill them, your a patriot!" (Technically, O Reilly provided cover for this but did so, so badly that ONLY his tribal followers believe that crap... the fact that most of the USA is steeped in the Southern Strategy after 8 years of Bush is just a bonus)
I sometimes wonder if conservatives would be angry if they discovered that WTC #7 was blown up using the WTC terrorist plane attack as a cover... I think they would be OK with it because of their attitude towards Liberals (as you can see above and outlined in more detail here) ... all the GOP would have to do is tell em they were Liberals who had to be sacrificed to get the evil Muslims - a racist strategy - and I think it would probably work. As it is many in the South already know that 9/11 was an inside job to some extant - I know, I told Oklahomans in 2009, many did know Cheney knew about the 9/11 attack BEFORE it happened (i.e. Many people know he knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened and let the planes hit on purpose) - so why is there no outcry?
Answer: WTC was in NYC, a Liberal State. As it is the conservatives are ready to kill Liberals now... why do you think they would care if they found out Cheney killed a bunch of Liberals to start the Opium Invasion of 2001? Hell. How can you say that the guy who went on a killing spree in Afghanistan wasn't following orders? Or maybe he didn't know that the Iraq Strategy of Genocide was not being used anymore under the Obama Administration? How can he massacre a bunch of people and not even get the death penalty? Ans: He was told to do what he did by one of the Neo-Nazi Generals. Not all Generals are but some obviously are.}
Notes:
Bush-Cheney DID ignore 6 warnings of an imminent attack on 9/11 - and continued to ignore their spy agencies concerning Iraq's lack of WMD and listened to ONE random guy from Iraq ... for oil or National Security? Oil and Opium makes more sense, especially since we can actually SEE the results. If someone says something repeatedly but their actions produce results that are not what they claimed... REPEATEDLY... then you have to assume that their original statements were lies to begin with. Or not? Self-delusion IS more peaceful than knowing the truth.
Notice is what is said about 30 minutes into the documentary, 'Bush was being investigated by the securities and exchange commission'. A President who got elected without completing a vote count who later installed computer voting machines which would not leave a paper trail... getting caught doing insider trading in his first year of office? That would be VERY bad for the GOP. Of course, now insider trading is legal so he wouldn't have had to ignore those warnings of imminent attack on 9/11 to use as cover for demolishing WTC #7. If insider trading had been made legal under Bill Clinton it's possible 9/11 would never have happened. Thus... insider trading continues to exist so the .0001% don't have kill a bunch of peasants (Northern Liberals) to cover-up their bad deeds. So insider trading seems destined to stay (i.e. it's easier to destroy America & it's people & Constitution than just telling people the truth, so that what the US Army's Generals are doing, hiding the truth).
Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 investigation commission regarding Osama Bin Laden. (She admits to knowing about the 9/11 attack before it happened.... GOOD. It's the only way to explain how they had the time to blow up the empty building next to WTC (i.e. WTC 7 which WAS BARELY EVEN ON FIRE and thus COULD NOT have collapsed by the Pancake Effect). Demolition charges take weeks to install as calculations are required. So... did the Bush Administration ignore 6 warnings of imminent attack on 9/11 or did they prepare for it by using the Terrorist Attack on 9/11 as cover for destroying proof of George Bush's security fraud (which has since then been made legal)?
More Details about knowing about the 9/11 attack BEFORE it happened: Dick Cheney: The Ultimate Laissez-Faire Capitalist?
Read More:
Newt Gingrich Caught In A BIG Lie. Nothing Happens.
"George Bush ignored six specific security briefings during 2001 of a terrorist attack involving mass casualties. "
Breaking: Iraq Spies Lies Exposed! & Tony Blair Ignores His Own Spy Agencies!
Bush's Legacy: A Bill Moyers documentary exploring how mainstream media failed to question the war in Iraq
BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices
So Wrong for So Long: Greg Mitchell on How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq
The Iraq Effect (2007): New Study Finds 600% Rise in Terrorism Since US Invasion of Iraq
"You kill a group of people, your insane. You kill hundreds of thousands, your a conqueror. You blame others for your problems and kill them, your a patriot!" (Technically, O Reilly provided cover for this but did so, so badly that ONLY his tribal followers believe that crap... the fact that most of the USA is steeped in the Southern Strategy after 8 years of Bush is just a bonus)
I sometimes wonder if conservatives would be angry if they discovered that WTC #7 was blown up using the WTC terrorist plane attack as a cover... I think they would be OK with it because of their attitude towards Liberals (as you can see above and outlined in more detail here) ... all the GOP would have to do is tell em they were Liberals who had to be sacrificed to get the evil Muslims - a racist strategy - and I think it would probably work. As it is many in the South already know that 9/11 was an inside job to some extant - I know, I told Oklahomans in 2009, many did know Cheney knew about the 9/11 attack BEFORE it happened (i.e. Many people know he knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened and let the planes hit on purpose) - so why is there no outcry?
Answer: WTC was in NYC, a Liberal State. As it is the conservatives are ready to kill Liberals now... why do you think they would care if they found out Cheney killed a bunch of Liberals to start the Opium Invasion of 2001? Hell. How can you say that the guy who went on a killing spree in Afghanistan wasn't following orders? Or maybe he didn't know that the Iraq Strategy of Genocide was not being used anymore under the Obama Administration? How can he massacre a bunch of people and not even get the death penalty? Ans: He was told to do what he did by one of the Neo-Nazi Generals. Not all Generals are but some obviously are.}
Notes:
Bush-Cheney DID ignore 6 warnings of an imminent attack on 9/11 - and continued to ignore their spy agencies concerning Iraq's lack of WMD and listened to ONE random guy from Iraq ... for oil or National Security? Oil and Opium makes more sense, especially since we can actually SEE the results. If someone says something repeatedly but their actions produce results that are not what they claimed... REPEATEDLY... then you have to assume that their original statements were lies to begin with. Or not? Self-delusion IS more peaceful than knowing the truth.
Notice is what is said about 30 minutes into the documentary, 'Bush was being investigated by the securities and exchange commission'. A President who got elected without completing a vote count who later installed computer voting machines which would not leave a paper trail... getting caught doing insider trading in his first year of office? That would be VERY bad for the GOP. Of course, now insider trading is legal so he wouldn't have had to ignore those warnings of imminent attack on 9/11 to use as cover for demolishing WTC #7. If insider trading had been made legal under Bill Clinton it's possible 9/11 would never have happened. Thus... insider trading continues to exist so the .0001% don't have kill a bunch of peasants (Northern Liberals) to cover-up their bad deeds. So insider trading seems destined to stay (i.e. it's easier to destroy America & it's people & Constitution than just telling people the truth, so that what the US Army's Generals are doing, hiding the truth).
Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 investigation commission regarding Osama Bin Laden. (She admits to knowing about the 9/11 attack before it happened.... GOOD. It's the only way to explain how they had the time to blow up the empty building next to WTC (i.e. WTC 7 which WAS BARELY EVEN ON FIRE and thus COULD NOT have collapsed by the Pancake Effect). Demolition charges take weeks to install as calculations are required. So... did the Bush Administration ignore 6 warnings of imminent attack on 9/11 or did they prepare for it by using the Terrorist Attack on 9/11 as cover for destroying proof of George Bush's security fraud (which has since then been made legal)?
More Details about knowing about the 9/11 attack BEFORE it happened: Dick Cheney: The Ultimate Laissez-Faire Capitalist?
Read More:
Newt Gingrich Caught In A BIG Lie. Nothing Happens.
"George Bush ignored six specific security briefings during 2001 of a terrorist attack involving mass casualties. "
Breaking: Iraq Spies Lies Exposed! & Tony Blair Ignores His Own Spy Agencies!
Bush's Legacy: A Bill Moyers documentary exploring how mainstream media failed to question the war in Iraq
BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S. Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices
So Wrong for So Long: Greg Mitchell on How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq
The Iraq Effect (2007): New Study Finds 600% Rise in Terrorism Since US Invasion of Iraq
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