[GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win?

[Brian Good]

7.  They control the national mythos.  Almost universally, the heroes in movies and TV 
are warrior heroes--male or female, soldiers or detectives or explorers--all in alignment 
with the rugged individualist and the defense of the establishment.  Progressive
heroes are all women: Mother Theresas and Aung San Suu Kyis, nurturing through 
self-sacrifice and self-abnegation, and that feminine energy makes for lousy drama.  
There's no place in the national mythos for a male progressive hero.  



From: snug.bug at hotmail.com
To: gerrygras at earthlink.net; sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:50:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win?






They win for a lot of reasons.

1.  They have money to fund think tanks and buy TV networks and newspapers, and we don't.

2.  Their goals are very practical, tangible, and immediate--to maximize their ability to accumulate 
and maintain wealth--while ours tend to be abstract and far off.

3.  They feel philosophically justified in lying and cheating to win, while we stick to the principles of 
fair play.

4.  They're better than we are at maintaining discipline and avoiding infighting.  (The unseemly 
fracas in the Republican primary was so unusual for them that it inspired me to theorize that they 
actually want Obama for another four years.)

5.  They have no need for any actual learning or research, since their ideological precepts are 
few and simple and they'll just make up the data to support their opinions--while we can easily
be disrupted by conflicts about facts and their significance.

6.  They work on behalf of the successful, so their glass is always more than half full.  We work
for the failures, there's never enough, and we get burned out.










> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:17:22 -0700
> From: gerrygras at earthlink.net
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Why Conservatives Win?
> 
> 
> Food for thought?
> 
> "The REAL Reason Conservatives Always Win"
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/22-12
> 
> Gerry
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