Berg’s Seventh Law And The “War” On…
By Mitch Berg
I keep coming back to Berg’s Seventh Law…
…no. That’s not accurate. Berg’s Seventh Law keeps coming up in the news.
The Democrats’ attempts to paint issues as “racist” and “gender-hostile” – declaring “Wars on Women” on behalf of the GOP, for example – are getting ever-more frenzied (and in the case of the left’s Minnesota messaging operation, the Alliance for a “Better” Minnesota, clumsier and more ham-fisted).
Why?
The answer, as with nearly everything the Democrats say about the GOP, is tucked away into Berg’s Law. The Law reads: “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds”.
So why the unseemly frenzy in the Democrats’ claims of “Racism” and “Wars” on Women?
Because the GOP, in at least one key metric, is clobbering the Democrats on “diversity”:
Obama aides like his political strategist David Axelrod and Gaspard have for years been sensitive to the irony that in the age of Obama, Republicans have done a better job than Democrats of bringing diversity through their ranks. That, and the personal warmth many in the Obama orbit also feel toward [Newark Mayor and NJ Senate hopeful Corey] Booker, has helped set him up as arguably the best-connected super-junior senator in recent memory.
The Law also explains why the media went to such comically, unseemly links to try to portray the Tea Party as “racist” – because the Tea Party may have been the most un-self-consciously racially diverse political movement in recent history.
The lesson is clear; on gender and diversity even more than most topics, don’t listen to what the Democrats say. Listen to what Berg’s Seventh Law says they’re really saying.
August 20th, 2013 at 6:44 am
Elements of the media and certainly the Democratic party have been anxious to characterize the tea party as social conservatives in disguise, but those who I have met don’t seem to be that way. They are an anti-deficit group, which leans strongly towards cutting spending rather than raising taxes. Don’t expect to hear anything detailed proposed by ‘the tea party’, because the tea party isn’t a party. It is a loose collective lobbying for a single issue. Their function is to raise the deficit as a priority in lawmakers minds. They will subside as the deficit subsides. Despite the way that some Republicans are trying to wear the tea party label (see The Tea Party Express, a PAC run by a Republican lobbyist), I honestly think that a fiscally responsible Democrat could garner many tea party votes.
Republicans have to understand that 2010 was a vote against the Democrats, not for them. 2016 will either be a continuation of the vote against Obama, or quite possibly the beginning of a backlash against the Republicans. The public is still much more angry than hopeful, and an angry populace will strike out in surprising ways. Continuing to stoke that anger will eventually backfire on the GOP.
August 20th, 2013 at 11:48 am
Out On a Limb Nominee: “2016 will either be a continuation of the vote against Obama, or quite possibly the beginning of a backlash against the Republicans.”
Still trying to understand your comment, “Emery”: Are you saying that “Social Conservative” equals racist and/or mysogynist? Please explain.
Back to the thread… In 2012, MSDNC’s own Chuck Todd noted that when it comes to supporting and electing minorities to office, the Democrats aren’t even close to what the Republicans have done.
Look, when your Majority Leader gets away with saying “(Obama) was a clean negro who could slip in and out of the negro dialect.” and a number of your party’s leaders have been accused of attempted rape and serial sexual harrassment of women only to be re-elected and feted, you could give a crap what people of color or women have to say about their ‘lack of progress’ in getting to leadership positions in your party. You’ve already got their vote.
So what if some women get slapped around when they won’t “play ball” and so what if young African American men and boys have dim employment prospects and are being killed wholesale – vote Democrat because… Todd Akin! and Middle Class! and Newtown!
August 21st, 2013 at 5:00 am
I would also add, that far more minority Democrats that elected into office (or in some cases, their spouses), have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar to line their own pockets. The problem is that too many of them, such as that raving moonbat Maxine Waters, get a pass for it.