Quote:
Originally Posted by Relentless
Right. "Culture War" has been a term co-opted by red shirts trying to say the government is dividing us based on who is rich and who is poor. Believe me, if we were all suddenly rich or suddenly poor they would quickly find a new dividing line to use. They don't care which demographic they need to use, only that it divides us evenly... the same way that bookies don't care which team will win, only what point spread will divide the pool of gamblers to the benefit of the house.
|
Very true.
A while back I read something about Karl Rove and how his philosophy for running an campaign was that you crank up the culture war to get the hard right wingers scared that the democrats are going to hire sex offender teachers for all schools and those schools will rape your daughters, get them pregnant then force them to have abortions. Then you move just enough to middle to get the more right leaning independents and you hope for rain on election day because a low turnout favors the republicans.
Sadly, he is right.
Bringing it back to the topic of this thread you can see Obama doing it now as well. In his speech he is basically telling people that the government can and will help them succeed in life so just vote for him and he will help you get rich.