Memo to Joe: It's called incitement to riot

Step one:

Use a daily drip drip drip method on TV, Radio, & in every publication. Gin up anger in the "low information" voter.

Step two:

Low information people love bus tours as much as they love attention paid to them. Make them feel important. Invite them to participate in the Bus-a-paloozza.

Sounds expensive? Get people in the shadows like the AMA, Pharma, Hospital Corporations and assorted Think Tank organizations to kick in millions to support the "activities" of the e-mailers, forum crashers, organizers.

Step three:

Play up the "Get yourself on TV" angle. Angry people love to be on tv, showing their outrage, even if the outrage comes from a script.

Step four:

Remind people that only THEY can stop this "angry black man in office" and his "dangerous" attempt to provide health care to all Americans. To reinforce this anger, people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and hundreds more just like them, are stepping up their anger-inducing invectives.

Step five:

Release the zombies!

Step six:

Send in the photographers & press. Documentation of their events is the most important part. They MUST be seen as "just plain folks" doing their civic duty. The more vocal, the more in-your-face they are, the better (makes great sound bytes & even better photos).

Step seven:

Cover media event reporting that reinforces one opinion. There are many ways to do this, so it's as easy as finding ticks on a hairless dog.

Mob intimidates candidates & ordinary attendees...they're just exercising their constitutional right to be heard

Candidate calls off meeting..they're "chicken"

Candidates ask for participation by supporters aligned with their political philosophy..they're portrayed as "asking for trouble" from the "mob-folks" who are there to disrupt the meeting.

Candidates use a members-only approach and limit meeting to actual constituents (not the bus-people/mobbers)....they're being elitist, and much door pounding ensues , along with chants of "Let Us IN" ...makes for a great photo-op.

Step eight

Trot out every poll possible that shows any change in public perception (which is EVERY poll, every time..that';s why pollsters stay in business). Every poll that shows division, can only help gin up even more angry white people, ready to do "battle" with rehearsed outrage.

Any media person who claims that this is all just a grassroots "uprising" of concern, is a bald-faced LIAR. They do not report it accurately because

(a) It takes longer than the time it takes to show a 20 second clip, and then chuckle
(b) The incitement is coming from THEIR advertisers/ benefactors/ corporate buddies/ former (current?) colleagues
(c) It's just too much fun to see ignorant people being manipulated into showing their fears & racism..up close & personal.
(d) It gives them all something to talk about, write about & enjoy, during the usually dull month of August.

and the Democrats sit and observe.

Hopefully, the tide will turn against them but as of now, they have taken over and made them the Wild Wild West Forums and the Civil Rights of others at the forum are being stepped on and nothing is done about it.

Aren't there basic rules for these events?

Didn't I hear Mourning Joe say that these citizens are doing the same thing that the Unions do when they want to be heard.


:shrug:

Refresh my memory on that one----

he's harkening back to the BEGINNING when unions were formed..and the ONLY reason there was violence was because in forming unions, many people did die, and were injured because the CORPORATE BOSSES refused to change their evil ways, and it took force to make them change.

It is a good concise layout of the "collective brainwashing" that has been going on in this country and I am ready for people to wake up!

If I emailed this to my father, his head would explode :(
You know, I do believe that MUCH of this is generational
This is a generation of men that were "running things" in the 60's and 70's
Life was swell and the whitebread way of life was the ONLY way (I know, I am a white girl from the suburbs in the 70's)
and this generation NEVER learned how to deal with itself and it's feelings about life changes
look at the "normal dysfunction" that thrives in most of these families
and how it is swept under the rug...

add that to the fear that they are losing "power" as they move into retirement and aging

Sprinkle liberally with some deep seeded rage towards minorities, gays, poor, etc

...and there you have a recipe for disaster and worse than what we are seeing now.
And as much I can't bear to look, but I feel obliged to speak out and spread more truth...
that people are being convinced by the Snake Oil salesmen that something like REAL Medical Care is somehow bad for you!?
:wtf: more truth may finally embarass them into stopping the nonsense, and I gues in the cas of my dad and his type...just give him compassion and a wide berth, don't bring up politics, and walk out of the room when he turns on faux news....? :shrug:

:)

You don't have to tread lightly with those of us who protested the Vietnam War. But when that war was over we had to return to living. The plutocracy never needs to rest though -- that's their job!

A reawakening is necessary for every generation.

--imm

Prior to them , protests were usually carried out by downtrodden working-age/working-class people, hungering for more scraps.

the 60's protests were different since there were TEENAGERS at first,protesting the fact that THEY migfht have to go to a war thewy did not support, then their parents & grandparents jumped in.

The push-back created a second front, against injustice..and add to that, the fat that we were the largest generation just emerging into adulthood, and we were more than ready to CHANGE EVERYTHING..

The fact that it did not pan out, does not lessen the effort

Great analysis!

Pretend that health insurance is the same as healthcare.

Then, make it appear that since you are pro-health insurance, that you must obviously be pro-healthcare.

Without ever having to say it you've made your opponent appear to be advocating the death of everyone's elderly parents.

Voila!