This is written by a friend who has been connected with the Broadcasting business for many years. I wanted to present this article on my blogsite.

A Registered Republican’s View of the National GOP.
by Dennis Jackson on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:42am

It’s almost beyond belief to me that the right-wing is able to dupe tens of millions of well-intentioned veterans, single-issue partisans, gun-hobbyists, flag-wavers (as in “my country love it or leave it”, as if having an differing opinion was un-American), country music fans, the unsophisticated, the undereducated, dogmatic evangelists, bigots, and outright rednecks, into voting for the continued transfer of wealth and power from people in their middle and working class life situation, to conscience-free corporations and the top 1% of wealth-holders.

The ratio of top CEO income to average worker income in 1983 was 50:1. Now it’s 250:1 !! Gee, do you think that’s related to the Reagan “revolution” that remains the ideological underpinning of neocons like Bush and Cheney, Rove, McConnell and Boehner, Gingrich, et al? Eisenhower and Nixon were both more progressive than the newly pragmatic and centrist President Obama, let alone today’s GOP. The right-wing, while often lacking in disclosure and honesty, is, in many respects, winning by use of smoke and mirrors. We must continue to rail against it and point out its absurdity.

And yet the super-rich who control the national GOP agenda from behind the curtain, and the Murdoch/Beck/Limbaugh/Hannity/Palen propaganda hate machine, won’t stop until they have it all in behalf of their greedy selves and the constituents who make them unjustly rich. It’s all too easy to get unsophisticated middle and working class folks to resent and hate other folks whom they fear may be “better than them” because they have a taste for Smithwicks and clean vodka over Budweiser ‘n’ corn whiskey, or latte over Dunkin’ Donuts (though both are great, they resent the latte, and often “things French” in general.)

Or to detest those who take the long view of our health care system, or understand the economy in a way similar to how the world’s greatest economic minds do, and thus understand how our government’s investment in rescuing the banking and automotive sectors is not an “expense” but an investment that was critical to the prevention world economic collapse, and that is now producing a profit for the taxpayers.

Right-wing propaganda is cheap, and it’s dishonest, but it works on the unsophisticated who resent, ridicule, and hate the concept of “nuance.” All these morans (sic) can say is, “Obama wants to make us all Socialists like failed Europe by increasing government and raising taxes. We want freedom and liberty from the government.” But gee, it’s just not that simple.

But ask them what, specifically, they themselves propose to cut, and they come up empty. Ask them, or their unions, or their elected reps if they would like to personally make some sacrifices, and they reply, “Hell no, I worked my butt off for that! It’s in my contract! This is America! I earned it and I ain’t giving it up to a bloated government!”

What they come up with instead, is another attack on progressive thinkers, or the messenger. “It’s that damm lamestream liberal media. You know, the networks owned by Fortunes 500 corps like GE, Comcast, Disney Corp, and Viacom Corp.” Sadly, there is no intellectual or spiritual leader for the GOP. There are no more intellectual conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley. There are no more sensible conservatives like Dwight D. Eisenhower. If there is a logical and legitimate conservative thought process, we never hear it because it would undermine the emotional appeal of deceptive right-wing propaganda that enlists the morons in voting against their own interests.

The middle of this article about the natural advantages that accrue to the right-wing is interesting:

ttp://www.alternet.org/story/149639/what_the_hell_happened_to_keith_olbermann?page=2

So we have two sectors in today’s right-wing. One is based on sincere good intentions, or intolerance, but a failure to grasp the big picture. The other includes many, but far from all (because many, fortunately, have a social conscience), of the the top 1% of the wealthy who are hypocritical and secretly gleeful that the grunts still haven’t caught on to their little scam. Make that, “huge scam.”

Did you hear Harold Ford on MTP this morning (Jan 30, 2011)? He said, “The Republicans are going to have to start acting like adults.” Republican strategist Mike Murphy could make no retort. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as saying, “If you’re not a liberal at age 20, you have no heart. If you’re not conservative at age 45, you have no brain.”

What’s true, but not said is, “If by age 50 you haven’t developed a mature view of the big picture and a mature conscience, you have no soul.”

Fortunately, a significant percentage of us eventually come to recognize that truth.