Not watching television any longer, I wanted to see what the GOP was doing for television ads in these weeks preceeding the election. I found terrorism. Flat-out terroristic messages.
A quick definition for you:
ter‧ror‧ism [ter–uh-riz-uhm]–noun
1. | the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. |
2. | the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. |
3. | a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government. |
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.Using “terrorism” to “terrorize” us — Delicious.
“The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.” You said a mouthful there.
I proceeded to another ad — also terroristic, based on a straw-man argument…
…and commented:
“Yeah, it’s a lot better to make our kids (and their kids and their kids…) pay.
This is a ridiculous ad. This is one screwed-up country.”
I got a couple responses and tried to respond to one of them thoughtfully, but YouTube limits responses to 500 characters (and here we are).
First the response that prompted my lengthy retort:
You’re right. Wht don’t you get out and go live in France or Germany where the governments confiscate up to 60% from the average working class income earners for “social welfare” programs. 8.9% unemployment rate sound like a plan to you? dolt.