Cognitive dissonance: recipe for totalitarianism
Oh yeah...Remembering the War and Other National and Global Crises Thu, 11/20/2008 - 20:02 - dlindorff The ongoing and deepening global economic crisis, to which Barack Obama owes his presidential election victory, is no small thing, to be sure. It also presents us on the left with a lot of openings to press for progressive change. We saw how the Republican attempt to derail Obama by labeling him a "socialist" actually backfired-especially when people were reminded that a fundamental premise of socialism is "income redistribution," in which some of the wealth of the rich is taken away through taxation, and transferred through federal programs to those who are less wealthy. Joe the Plumber was outraged, but when most Americans who were having trouble paying for gas or making their next mortgage payment, or who were worried that their jobs might be about to vanish, thought about that for longer than a sound-bite, it turns out that, not surprisingly, they decided socialism and redistribution didn't sound like a bad or scary idea at all. Read more http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/235 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
