"Let's organize as an undercover group and infiltrate their blogs, newsites, mailing lists, and other propaganda channels. Let's post comments and articles that will incite them to think about, question, and challenge what they are seeing. Let's present far-right ideas that will go out of the comfort range of many in their ranks and create challenges to their status quo."
"Let's combine right-wing rhetoric with intolerably prejudicial remarks and provoke them to defend against our racism, sexism, etc. Let's present clearly illogical arguments with believable conviction and subtly encourage them to point out our errors. Let's confuse and divide them by mixing extremist and centrist views and, thus, cause them to make distinctions between them."
"Let's accuse anyone of showing any centrism as being an avid leftist, a "bleeding-heart" liberal, and try to ostracize them from the group. Let's present extremist views on eugenics, religious fundamentalism, "preemptive" strikes, cultural bigotry, etc as mainstream conservatism and promote the connections between these unpopular views with the popular ones. Let's copy the polemic absolutism conservatives present towards liberals and use it within their ranks, dividing them among issues with their intolerance. Let's make the conservative groups an obnoxious farce, exposed for the repulsive entity it truly is."
Ohhh lordy. I'm seriously considering taking select folks over there to court for causing me to laugh until I'm in pain.
Posted by AnalogKid at September 25, 2003 03:29 PM | TrackBackWhoah!
I thought these guys were busy enough being naked and vandalizing things with black dots! It must be so stressful to be a moonbat these daze.
The only problem with their plan is that the Right seems more capable of self-analysis and a "take out the trash" mentality than the left. (Ask Trent Lott, David Duke, and Pat Robertson if they disagree, then ponder why Robert Byrd, Al Sharpton, and Jim McDermott all still have seats at the Dems' table.)
The Right isn't always correct on the issues, but in the blogosphere at least there is a much greater tendency to marginalize the wingnuts from both sides of the aisle. Can't say as much for the DUMB and Indymedia crowd...
I agree with J. Wilde. My occasional forays into the wacky world of hard-left commentary suggest that there is an appalling lack of rigor and analysis there. Reader comments are worse.
Actually, if anyone takes the author up on the suggestion, they will be amazed at what they find in the world of conservative blogs. Unfortunately it takes a certain kind of critical mind to appreciate why fools are not suffered gladly in our world.
Posted by: Dave in LA on September 27, 2003 04:15 PMA few of the smarter ones may see the flaws in their thinking and even learn to embrace a few "conservative" ideas.
Then again, pigs could fly too.....
Posted by: ....a moment with Easycure on October 1, 2003 12:55 PMMy favorite line:
Let's present clearly illogical arguments with believable conviction...
Well, they certainly have had the practice!
Posted by: Dar on October 1, 2003 01:24 PM