I can’t remember in my short 31 years on this planet of ever having read or heard about a POTUS referring to regular people who have had honest disagreements with them as “angry mobs.” I am just a concerned citizen who didn’t like the out of control government spending started by George W. Bush and increased one thousand fold with Barack Obama. I got involved with my local Tea Party group under my own volition and I met other regular people who did’nt like the out of control spending and failure of our elected officials to listen to our concerns. These people, just like me, are simply just regular folks who are concerned about the path our country is headed down. Most of us have never protested before, been to a rally or joined a march. We aren’t racists or bitter because we lost the election. Our anger is not manufactured or funded by high end concerns. Finally we are a real grassroots movement not an Astroturf brigade with pre-made protest signs, group t-shirts, hats, pins, buttons and chants.
Just so there is no confusion, pictured below is what an Astroturf movement looks like
Below is what real grassroots protesters look like. Do you notice the difference? No group shirts, pre-made signs, pre-made banners, etc.
What Obama and the left fail to understand or what they underestimated is that the silent majority, whose previous political involvement was only to vote in general elections, would remain silent forever. Just like in the movie Network they are “mad as hell and they’re not gonna take it anymore!” Many people falsely assume that once an election is over there is nothing you can do about. If you don’t like what is going on all you can do is just wait for the next election. This is absolutely untrue and the Tea Party movement and town hall meetings are waking people up to this. They are calling their representatives in Washington and reminding them that they work for us and that they’ll work for someone else if they help pass this government takeover of health care. This is how you have your voices heard. This is how you hold them accountable. This is democracy!
Now Obama is using two tactics from the book Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky to try and demonize us. Alinsky was a Marxist community organizer and a major influence upon Barack Obama.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
That’s pretty crude, rude and mean, right? They want to create anger and fear.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Once again its cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works and you’ve seen it in action with the new ads by the DNC calling people who opposes the health care insurance overhaul takeover as “angry mobs of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.” This is of course laughable and not true and very hypocritical considering that the President has used the techniques that he wrongly accuses others of using. Straight from the horses mouth:
The feistier, more sarcastic tone came as worried Democrats urged Obama to get tougher and show more passion. Obama has tried to assure donors and voters that he’s been schooled by Chicago politics…
In Elko, Obama tried to anticipate his critics and called on the crowd of about 1,500 to sharpen their elbows, too.
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” he said.
“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’ If they tell you, ‘Well, he’s going to raise your taxes,’ you say, ‘No, he’s not, he’s going lower them.’ You are my ambassadors. You guys are the ones who can make the case.”
According to the left its okay to protest in support of their causes but you are part of an angry mob if you protest against. Please read this post after you watch the clip below to get a complete understanding of the subject.
