The Left says, “Do what we say, or terrible and awful [hyperbolic] things will happen.”<\/p>\n
Children will spontaneously combust.\u00a0 The earth will cease to support human life.\u00a0 Total Hollywood stuff – looks flashy and sells well.\u00a0\u00a0 The more extreme, the better it sells.<\/p>\n
The Right responds, “When we do what you say, bad things happen in reality.”<\/p>\n
Things get more expensive, people lose choices in the market, regulators get more power – bad, but kind of boring things.\u00a0 There’s no flash in these outcomes, little screen potential.\u00a0 They just slowly grind us down, take away our options, make things more expensive, and cause our freedoms to evaporate.\u00a0 It’s a slower process, not the stuff of big budget disaster films.<\/p>\n
The Right is generally correct.\u00a0 But the Left has a bag of saleable images, so they have market share.<\/p>\n
In the long run, the Left’s hyperbolic fears will never be realized.\u00a0 This is because they never had a real potential for realization – the Left’s dirty little secret.\u00a0 The Left don’t have to actually do anything because no matter what happens, hyperbolic fears are just that – unrealistic fears that will never be real.<\/p>\n
All the Left has to do is raise the alarm.\u00a0 Everyone waits to see smoke from the reported fire.\u00a0 We all scan the horizon while the 24\/7 news media provides video simulations.\u00a0 The predicted fires never pan out.\u00a0 But wait, there’s another alarm, and then another, and another, and so on forever.<\/p>\n
Occasionally something really bad does happen.\u00a0 These are unforeseen events, independent from any of the Left’s prognostications.\u00a0 No matter, that’s what Spin is for.\u00a0 Revisionism – changing the chain of causation in history to something else – plugging the left’s chosen cause in, after the fact, in place of the real cause.\u00a0 And then selling it – get an Affleck or Clooney to sign for the movie, etc.<\/p>\n
Is the Right finally waking up to this game?\u00a0 I hope so.\u00a0 It’s happening at every level of government – from our school boards, to our counties, to our states, to our federal government.\u00a0 The Left “wags the dog” with reckless abandon because their ends justify any means.<\/p>\n
The Right must stop looking for smoke from those fabled Leftist fires.\u00a0 The Right must keep it real and quit worrying about the optics industry – which they can’t control anyway.<\/p>\n
Maybe someday the bulk of humanity will evolve out of their current susceptibility to manipulation through Hollywood optics.\u00a0 But clearly, voting majorities haven’t yet.\u00a0 We can expect they’ll vote for many more ridiculous, absurd, and freedom gobbling policies, taxes, regulations, and people, before they learn.<\/p>\n
The Right can help bring that day closer by calling out when the Left leaves the reality reservation.<\/p>\n
Democrats gave Republicans an early Christmas present by identifying non-essential fed jobs. House #debtceiling<\/a> bills should start with them<\/p>\n
\u2014 Brooks Imperial (@broimp) October 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n