My friends on the right have long decried the habit of the Republican Establishment deploying shiny objects to distract from failure. It has been a long time pattern. The establishment throws the base some shiny object they claim they want, like passing an abortion restriction. The base seal claps with delight and completely misses the establishment re-upped Planned Parenthood funding in the budget.
The culture war is real in its threat, but it is secondary... a manufactured deflection mechanism from the Regime so the managerial and administrative elite can continue to advance their Wall Street backed looting of the USA to an empty shell.
The left army of the Regime has learned to leverage the intellectual insecurity of the right to poke them and make them emotionally react to twaddle. Then the Regime's left army harvests the outrage of the other emotionally fragile youth and female demographic to leverage their reaction to twaddle.
And the final analysis is Republicans getting punched down in yet another election because they are idiots that cannot control their emotions, cannot stay focused on what is really important, and cannot articulate what should be very simple to articulate given that what the Democrats are pushing is insanity.
All valid points Erick, with that said, glad to see an attempt to put God back in the lime light when so much has been taken away from us, including prayer. Private Christian schools i favor but things are so out of control in public schools, a little poster especially focusing on the 1st commandment I am in favor of. The lawyers are going to get rich anyway, but God works thru the bad and the good to deliver the good news. We can take a few seconds to appreciate the effort in spite of all of the negative press and evil that will ultimately bring it down.
Like you Eric, I grew up in Louisiana. I was just home for Fathers Day in that in sane heat. LOL When I saw this, my first thought was, there are kids in EBR and Orleans schools who just graduated that can barely read or write, why is THIS a priority? But you have explained it well. The typically incompetent\ corrupt state legislature failed to provide support for parents and are waving this shiny object around to distract. And yes, the people I know that work in EBR schools will NOT be putting up these posters, if they ever arrive at the schools they will be put in a closet never to be seen by the kids. And hell, some of the kids couldn't read the damn things anyway.
"shiny object, failure theater" - I love that you call out this Krapp, Its part of the reason I am willing to actually pay for this content when I rarely ever subscribe over a paywall.
It'd be great to figure out how something becomes the failure theater cause. I wonder if the politicians that are truly passionate about a cause are perplexed all of sudden when the governor or others start talking about it in the media. I wonder if they realize what's actually going on.
Anyway, the ten commandments is an interesting choice for the base to get riled up about as they clearly don't care much for the actual commandments judging by who they overwhelmingly nominate as leader.
Eric - I support putting the Ten Commandments in the classroom and wish that they were there now. You are 100% correct about the shinny objects. They are a distraction. How about doing it quietly. How about funding school choice so parents can give their children a better education than the public schools. I am a product of the public school system - having graduated not long after the Department of Education was established in Washington. What they do not teach now is astounding. How about teaching civics again. My civics class was taught by a Korean War Veteran. My American History class was taught by a black woman who happened to be a Republican - or as she put it a member of the party of Lincoln. She taught us American History - warts and all - and made sure we understood all aspects of the slave trade, why the South owned slaves - and showed us it was all about commerce. How about going back to teaching before the Department of Education was established and let the locals handle the local needs.
Eric once again you miss the point. While I don’t think abortion and religion in the public classroom should be a hill the right chooses to die on, by definition it’s what the people wanted in that state.
It is clear that the Dodd case had an affect on the mid term election but that is disturbing isn’t it?
Cases like this shouldn’t be a death sentence for the right and shouldn’t be a case of making us lose. In fact it should be opposite of that. A state displaying their beliefs in God and dedication to words of morality should be applauded not bashed as a possible bomb that may blow up an election.
I agree it’s not something we should address. And yes school choice shouldn’t be defunded. But you making a case for us losing because of it misses the point entirely. We have fallen so far that something like this threatens our ability to win an election. That is the pathetic point of which every American should be ashamed.
Yes the legislative in Louisiana needs to fix the school choice. But I remind you that here in GA that same legislation was killed by kemp and the late David R.
This is a problem of morality not a tossing of shiny objects. That needs to be fixed before all else. This shouldn’t be an issue. Yet it is. That’s the problem.
Louisiana wouldn't know integrity in their politicians if they actually saw it. These are the same bozos who reelected Edwin Edwards way too many times, even after a stint in prison. Blanco? Really? You just can't make this stuff up.
"young jackasses of social media worked up to defend the shiny objects as wins"
And the old jackass politicians keep doing the Lucy pulling away the football from voters Charlie Browns (us) as usual. I don't want to be cynical (cynical old men are a dime a dozen) but our Republican politicians are just not going do anything that really fixes anything. The only way they get my vote is because the Progressives do worse. The Republicans are taking advantage of this. Which means they are committing political malpractise in my book. Shame on them. They leave us nowhere to turn.
It would have been just as easy to have pointed out the duplicitous acts of the Louisiana governor without attacking the base of the party, who now will stand by the governor rather than listen to words that could have been wise.
I view the base as us voters. Everyone else are just players. Players playing us. I would like to meet them in a bar and start a barfight with the bunch of them. I would cause a few broken noses before they broke mine. THAT would be worth spending a couple of nights in jail for (no, I'm not angry, nah...)
It did have the smell of a gesture, should have realized there would be some cynical purpose
The culture war is real in its threat, but it is secondary... a manufactured deflection mechanism from the Regime so the managerial and administrative elite can continue to advance their Wall Street backed looting of the USA to an empty shell.
The left army of the Regime has learned to leverage the intellectual insecurity of the right to poke them and make them emotionally react to twaddle. Then the Regime's left army harvests the outrage of the other emotionally fragile youth and female demographic to leverage their reaction to twaddle.
And the final analysis is Republicans getting punched down in yet another election because they are idiots that cannot control their emotions, cannot stay focused on what is really important, and cannot articulate what should be very simple to articulate given that what the Democrats are pushing is insanity.
Not to mention the fact that now, the Satanists are going to use this to install whatever Satanic crap they want into the schools.
All valid points Erick, with that said, glad to see an attempt to put God back in the lime light when so much has been taken away from us, including prayer. Private Christian schools i favor but things are so out of control in public schools, a little poster especially focusing on the 1st commandment I am in favor of. The lawyers are going to get rich anyway, but God works thru the bad and the good to deliver the good news. We can take a few seconds to appreciate the effort in spite of all of the negative press and evil that will ultimately bring it down.
Like you Eric, I grew up in Louisiana. I was just home for Fathers Day in that in sane heat. LOL When I saw this, my first thought was, there are kids in EBR and Orleans schools who just graduated that can barely read or write, why is THIS a priority? But you have explained it well. The typically incompetent\ corrupt state legislature failed to provide support for parents and are waving this shiny object around to distract. And yes, the people I know that work in EBR schools will NOT be putting up these posters, if they ever arrive at the schools they will be put in a closet never to be seen by the kids. And hell, some of the kids couldn't read the damn things anyway.
"shiny object, failure theater" - I love that you call out this Krapp, Its part of the reason I am willing to actually pay for this content when I rarely ever subscribe over a paywall.
It'd be great to figure out how something becomes the failure theater cause. I wonder if the politicians that are truly passionate about a cause are perplexed all of sudden when the governor or others start talking about it in the media. I wonder if they realize what's actually going on.
Anyway, the ten commandments is an interesting choice for the base to get riled up about as they clearly don't care much for the actual commandments judging by who they overwhelmingly nominate as leader.
Erick, you are right (no pun intended) on all counts. Hang in there.
tommy
I really don’t get distracted by this sort of activity, but I do agree with one of your comments.
You don’t push hard enough to win on key issues, not sure why, but it does seem so!
Eric - I support putting the Ten Commandments in the classroom and wish that they were there now. You are 100% correct about the shinny objects. They are a distraction. How about doing it quietly. How about funding school choice so parents can give their children a better education than the public schools. I am a product of the public school system - having graduated not long after the Department of Education was established in Washington. What they do not teach now is astounding. How about teaching civics again. My civics class was taught by a Korean War Veteran. My American History class was taught by a black woman who happened to be a Republican - or as she put it a member of the party of Lincoln. She taught us American History - warts and all - and made sure we understood all aspects of the slave trade, why the South owned slaves - and showed us it was all about commerce. How about going back to teaching before the Department of Education was established and let the locals handle the local needs.
Erick great comment
Math, science English, just telling the truth, and be nice to others
Is all they need
Eric once again you miss the point. While I don’t think abortion and religion in the public classroom should be a hill the right chooses to die on, by definition it’s what the people wanted in that state.
It is clear that the Dodd case had an affect on the mid term election but that is disturbing isn’t it?
Cases like this shouldn’t be a death sentence for the right and shouldn’t be a case of making us lose. In fact it should be opposite of that. A state displaying their beliefs in God and dedication to words of morality should be applauded not bashed as a possible bomb that may blow up an election.
I agree it’s not something we should address. And yes school choice shouldn’t be defunded. But you making a case for us losing because of it misses the point entirely. We have fallen so far that something like this threatens our ability to win an election. That is the pathetic point of which every American should be ashamed.
Yes the legislative in Louisiana needs to fix the school choice. But I remind you that here in GA that same legislation was killed by kemp and the late David R.
This is a problem of morality not a tossing of shiny objects. That needs to be fixed before all else. This shouldn’t be an issue. Yet it is. That’s the problem.
Louisiana wouldn't know integrity in their politicians if they actually saw it. These are the same bozos who reelected Edwin Edwards way too many times, even after a stint in prison. Blanco? Really? You just can't make this stuff up.
ARGHHH!
"young jackasses of social media worked up to defend the shiny objects as wins"
And the old jackass politicians keep doing the Lucy pulling away the football from voters Charlie Browns (us) as usual. I don't want to be cynical (cynical old men are a dime a dozen) but our Republican politicians are just not going do anything that really fixes anything. The only way they get my vote is because the Progressives do worse. The Republicans are taking advantage of this. Which means they are committing political malpractise in my book. Shame on them. They leave us nowhere to turn.
It would have been just as easy to have pointed out the duplicitous acts of the Louisiana governor without attacking the base of the party, who now will stand by the governor rather than listen to words that could have been wise.
I view the base as us voters. Everyone else are just players. Players playing us. I would like to meet them in a bar and start a barfight with the bunch of them. I would cause a few broken noses before they broke mine. THAT would be worth spending a couple of nights in jail for (no, I'm not angry, nah...)
I'm old enough to have chased quite a few shiny objects and let's be honest in that both sides use them. You're spot on with post, Erick.