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2 minutes ago, sabrecrazed said:

I find it funny that everyone's hair is on fire over this tweet, but nobody cares that the Democrats want to change our entire system of voting. 


Hopefully this will make the left defend in-person voting so the election can be on time and in person.

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Why Republicans eventually lose, every time...

 

Conservative values are based on freedom and opportunity, and it takes a certain level of logic and reason to understand the mechanisms that allow freedom to breed opportunity, such that lives improve.

It is, in the meantime, very easy to say things like, “I believe in PEOPLE and will NOT let your desire for FREEDUMB exclude people from access to HEALTHCARE and FOOD!!!!!”

 

The second quote is clever in many ways, even as it is misleading.  First, it ridicules freedom, and personalizes freedom in a way that makes it about greed and excess - those who want freedom are portrayed as the ‘I have mine and screw the rest of you’ crowd.

 

Second, it conflates freedom, and conservative values in general, with pain, suffering, and starvation.  It essentially says, “People are sick, injured, and hungry because YOU DO NOT CARE!!!”

 

Third, it is purely moralistic.  It offers no mechanisms, and requires no sense of logic or reason.  It, rather, creates a false binary between freedom and survival, without any indication for how those things may, or may not be, related.  It implies a simple choice:  if you are for freedom, you must be against survival.

 

Fourth, it implies, without stating, that being against government providing things, is the same as being against those things being provided.  It implies that being against a government takeover of medical care is the same as being against having medical care provided, and that being against a government takeover of the food industry is the same as being against having food.

 

Most importantly...  It encourages conservatives to use logic and reason to deconstruct the statement, such that we can rip it apart (exactly as I just did).

Ronald Reagan once said, “If you are explaining, you are losing.”  When we focus solely on logic and reason, without pivoting to morality, we cede the moral high ground and turn off the electorate.  

 

Much of the electorate does not have the time, nor the patience, to listen to logic and reason.  They just want to do the right thing.  In this way, the Democrats are better at messaging.

 

Getting better at our moral communication is not difficult.  We just have to learn to pack our logical, well reasoned arguments, in a moral sandwich.  Start with a moral claim, back it with reason and logic, and then restate it at the end.

 

Instead of ‘socialism would be great if it worked,’ followed by a bunch of arguments about how socialism cannot work, say, ‘socialism has killed more people than has smallpox, and it makes people no more important than farm animals,” followed by all of the logical arguments making THAT statement true.  Finally, restate the fact that socialism is evil, as it treats people like farm animals, and kills more effectively than do plagues.

 

We win the occasional election, but very little if anything gets rolled back when we do.  Democrats, in the meantime, bide their time, and then come back with new ways to grow government.

 

If we want to win in the long term, we need to convince people that growing government is morally wrong.

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^^^^^Good post.

 

I’ve cringed  every time I heard someone trotting out the sarcastic “MUH RIGHTS!!!” trope in the last 4 months, totally dismissing peoples’ valid concerns about an eventual return to normalcy.  Lazy thinking.

 

Of course, ironically enough, these are probably the same people who laid into Bush and company back in 2001/2002 when we started having to remove our belts and shoes at the airports.

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