Teabagging Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) went on the attack at a recent speech to the Americans for (the Kocks) Prosperity.
If you can stomach watching it:
According to Johnson:
"But when you control not only your entire universities but, in particular your colleges of education, of journalism, of law, of economics, you utterly control our culture. And the Left has controlled our culture for over 50 years.
"And you know what? They also have a strategy. It's been in place since FDR. It's diabolically simple, it is depressingly effective. It is (to) addict Americans to government."
(bolding and italics are mine)
Really? WE control education at a time that the Koch Brothers are buying university programs with the caveat that they control the curriculum and even the professors that are hired? When they've used Brink trucks of money along with others in the fossil fuel industry to ensure that climate change is considered a "theory" by far too many people rather than the warning of our ecosystems future demise that it truly is? And the insistence that the dismal economic theories of Milton Friedman are given prominence at those universities to ensure that students believe in the mythology of Trickle Down Economics?
When they're trying to buy important newspapers and media in this country to repeat the propaganda that's already blaring out of the highest power radio stations and Fake News Channel across our nation to fool people into supporting those who work to ensure their economic ruin?
Yeah, we, the Left, are truly the powerful ones in America (bwahahahaha!). Little did we know that we've controlled this country for the last 50 years as if Ronald Reagan, George Bush (both of them), Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich and a plethora of others didn't exist.
And what's with the "addicted to government" baloney. People aren't addicted to government. We simply want it to work effectively and for us.
He bloviates further:
"How did we come to a point in America where demonizing businesses, demagoguing against success rather than celebrating success, wins politically? I can guarantee you it will not produce the opportunity, the prosperity that is the heritage of this nation. It's going to destroy this nation.
"So I asked a rhetorical question: How did we get to this point? Well, I know. I lived through the '60s, I've got white hair, I saw the radicals take over our university system. By the way, these aren't your garden-variety liberals that are in charge of our education system. They're the most radical.
Awwww, poor babies. Victims of all-powerful, radical Liberals. Yes, we have "radical" beliefs: equality, opportunity, a great education for all, community, fairness, and a knowledge that we are all in this together.
We don't believe that most of the wealth should be in the hands of a tiny number of people. We don't believe that people should be hungry, homeless, or without health care. We don't believe that college should be there only for those who can afford it or those whose parents are willing to mortgage their homes to pay for it. We don't believe in success for a few on the backs of others, but shared success where workers labor and productivity ensures a decent standard of living.
But Johnson and his fellow Republicans can't succeed on their (very bad) ideas. They need someone to blame and claims of victimization as the icing on the cake. They also need media to ignore their records and agenda and their very specialized "news" radio and television channels to keep fooling as much of the public as they can con into tuning to them. They need boatloads of money for ads, lying on their agenda and records, lying on the facts, blaming others, and fooling the public into supporting policies and proposals that will take even more from them (e.g. Social Security is broke).
Ron Johnson is a joke; an ignorant man who can barely recite talking points to anyone but pre-screened, friendly audiences. He bought his election to the Senate in 2014 and since then has racked up terrible approval numbers (even his Senate colleagues don't like him).
Until recently, he's been in silent mode; rarely being interviewed or speaking because every time his mouth opens, ignorance falls out (missing those Benghazi briefings and then attacking Secretary of State Clinton at a Senate Committee hearing is just one example). It hasn't helped.
Unlike his pal, Scott Walker, he's not a smooth operator, but with 2016 just around the corner, he's starting to appear more to try to promote himself and his Republican/Tea Party bona fides. The result is predictable.
Please proceed, Senator.
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Dumbell Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch got herself quite a nice spread complete with 2 flattering photos in Milwaukee Pravda that praised her to the hilt. Proclaiming her a "homemaker" who rose in politics made me sick (she wasn't - she was a broadcaster on a Milwaukee television station which was noted far far down the article). And this wasn't a story stuck in their online version or blog, it was a fat article in the real paper.
Have a barf bag handy if you decide to dive in to read it.
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