Paul Ryan, Republican house majority leader and Wisconsin's 1st district Representitive, this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, remarked how despicable was an advertisement, sponsored by some advocacy group, depicting an elderly women being thrown from her wheelchair over and off a cliff. The ad, of course, was an attempt to demonize Mr. Ryan's recent budget proposal that would essentially end Medicare.
This TV ad is admittedly in very poor taste, and as usual, is designed to rouse fear in and among a certain demographic or constituency group. Playing to the fears, and not the hopes, of various groups of this nation is politics at its lowest:; however selling fear is so much easier than selling hope.
As outlined in earlier blog "Everyone's Doing It", both sides of our pathetic body politic continue to use similar tactics and then demagogue the other for doing the very same thing. During the protracted health care debate, the Republican's used a tried and tired set of expressions to scare the nations populace into believing that health care reform was a monumental evil. "Socialized medicine" was one, and another popular euphemism was the suggestion that such reform would lead to so called "death panels". These are essentially identical tactics used by both parties from two different angles to achieve the same thing: fear!!!! What a bunch of chumps.
Please rebut if you will.
This TV ad is admittedly in very poor taste, and as usual, is designed to rouse fear in and among a certain demographic or constituency group. Playing to the fears, and not the hopes, of various groups of this nation is politics at its lowest:; however selling fear is so much easier than selling hope.
As outlined in earlier blog "Everyone's Doing It", both sides of our pathetic body politic continue to use similar tactics and then demagogue the other for doing the very same thing. During the protracted health care debate, the Republican's used a tried and tired set of expressions to scare the nations populace into believing that health care reform was a monumental evil. "Socialized medicine" was one, and another popular euphemism was the suggestion that such reform would lead to so called "death panels". These are essentially identical tactics used by both parties from two different angles to achieve the same thing: fear!!!! What a bunch of chumps.
Please rebut if you will.
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