Keep fighting!

Sarah Hoyt writes that

Our media has lost the ability to make us dote on their darlings, but they can still turn public opinion against anyone they choose.

The end result of this is to drop the people who would even marginally be interesting to the base (Paul is saying he won’t run and I’m not sure I blame him) leaving us with the one the left fears less. That one they spare until the general election and then they unload on him. At any rate, not much is needed since the base is usually cringing.

I have a theory that this is a leftover cold war reflex. During the cold war the left managed to paint the right as being for the rich, because it was against the distribution of wealth. (Instead of the distribution of wealth ipso facto favoring a large government and an “upper class” that gives bennies to the benighted, just like in feudal times. In fact the whole concept of redistribution IS feudal. Why would the government give YOUR money to anyone else, unless all money belongs to them and “we all belong to the government”?) From this came painting the right as anti-other-races (completely airbrushing the fact it was the left who endorsed slavery – same as it ever was, I guess) and all the other image of the stodgy/old fashioned right. It took them forever and near monopoly of the information/entertainment complex to build that image.

So what to do? Well… The only thing I can think of other than stop jumping every time they make jokes about someone being a frog is to fight fire with fire. Is there a stupid meme out saying that so and so said something totally out of context? Find the stupidest things Obama has said (And I don’t mean corpse- man, most people don’t care about mispronounciations. Unless your target is college professors. But “you didn’t build that” is pretty damn dumb, as are his recent scolds on “inequality” while he flies around in private jets to glam vacations) and make a meme, and flood the net. And when they push their meme at you, push right back. Just a sentence. No, it doesn’t need to be impeccably sourced, no it doesn’t need to make sense, even. It just needs to be catchy.

Just because they control most of the channels that can be used for propaganda doesn’t mean we can’t counter it.

Be not afraid. But keep fighting.