Comments on: The Patronizing Conservative http://www.toberight.com/2009/06/the-patronizing-conservative/ News & Commentary That's Always RIGHT Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:59:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: ToBeRight http://www.toberight.com/2009/06/the-patronizing-conservative/comment-page-1/#comment-4082 ToBeRight Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:25:05 +0000 http://www.toberight.com/?p=110#comment-4082 Your point relating the liberal message to marketing is spot on. In fact, I believe that the only problem conservatives have is a marketing problem: Most people don't know what it means to be conservative. Somehow, the left has succeeded in creating this caricature of conservatives as angry, stupid, white men, who want to make laws banning profane album lyrics and porn. Paradoxically, it is the left who actually seeks to take individual freedom away. We need to elect some leaders who understand the marketing piece - it will be central to the success of the GOP in 2010 and beyond... Your point relating the liberal message to marketing is spot on. In fact, I believe that the only problem conservatives have is a marketing problem: Most people don’t know what it means to be conservative.

Somehow, the left has succeeded in creating this caricature of conservatives as angry, stupid, white men, who want to make laws banning profane album lyrics and porn. Paradoxically, it is the left who actually seeks to take individual freedom away.

We need to elect some leaders who understand the marketing piece – it will be central to the success of the GOP in 2010 and beyond…

]]> By: Scott Lawrence http://www.toberight.com/2009/06/the-patronizing-conservative/comment-page-1/#comment-4071 Scott Lawrence Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:39:52 +0000 http://www.toberight.com/?p=110#comment-4071 I personally believe it takes more patience than Job not to seem condescending to liberals. The liberal mentality is easier to adopt because it's simpler to understand in a 30 second spot, which is what politics has been reduced to. Marketing to the masses means getting your point across quickly, which is far easier for a bill Despite the energetic push by some Republican congressmen to reinvent the townhall debate, many voters base their decisions on whatever opinion is derived from Entertainment Tonight or wannabe pundits who write a movie critic column. The hook/line/sinker of the liberal mantra enables the average Joe to make a decision and feel like he's filled his role in the social contract. Bill titles are coated with sugar to help the democratic congress get approval from the public in swallowing it. From "stimulus" to "clean energy" to "undocumented workers" the public fails to see the leash that so gingerly helps them be guided. It takes a more critical eye, and subsequently more thought, to fully understand the issues. This brings us back to the original point. Should we as critical thinkers feel bad for coming across as condescending to those who have taken less time to think the issues through? I suppose it's only natural to feel a tinge of guilt for criticizing a liberal's failed logic, but then we'd be playing in to the very fallacy that enables liberals to believe as they do. If someone is going to form an opinion, let that person back it up. Let them be condescending if they can. In my opinion, only through this type of healthy debate can people really come to see the truth. I personally believe it takes more patience than Job not to seem condescending to liberals.
The liberal mentality is easier to adopt because it’s simpler to understand in a 30 second spot, which is what politics has been reduced to. Marketing to the masses means getting your point across quickly, which is far easier for a bill Despite the energetic push by some Republican congressmen to reinvent the townhall debate, many voters base their decisions on whatever opinion is derived from Entertainment Tonight or wannabe pundits who write a movie critic column.
The hook/line/sinker of the liberal mantra enables the average Joe to make a decision and feel like he’s filled his role in the social contract. Bill titles are coated with sugar to help the democratic congress get approval from the public in swallowing it. From “stimulus” to “clean energy” to “undocumented workers” the public fails to see the leash that so gingerly helps them be guided. It takes a more critical eye, and subsequently more thought, to fully understand the issues.
This brings us back to the original point. Should we as critical thinkers feel bad for coming across as condescending to those who have taken less time to think the issues through? I suppose it’s only natural to feel a tinge of guilt for criticizing a liberal’s failed logic, but then we’d be playing in to the very fallacy that enables liberals to believe as they do. If someone is going to form an opinion, let that person back it up. Let them be condescending if they can. In my opinion, only through this type of healthy debate can people really come to see the truth.

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