A Political Theory

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I’m beginning to suspect that the monumentally stupid things the Tea Partiers—and even the more general GOP candidates—keep saying are in fact part of a strategy. If your opponents are concerned with analyzing assumptions and relying on facts, all you have to do is make a short statement that is so mind-scramblingly, brain-torquingly wrong on so many levels that it’d take a full-on graduate thesis to address every problem within it. Congratulations: they’ll now have to spend weeks compiling and organizing facts and statistics, and by the time they have it together everyone will have the sound bite so firmly in their heads it’ll be impossible to dislodge.

And hey, if you spout out several of these in a row, they’ll NEVER catch up!

Maybe we opponents should just stick with the slightly less fact-based, but age-old, counter-strategy—simply pointing and laughing at the stupid. At least it’s less time-consuming.

Comments

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

My old roommate Clarence has had the same theory for some time, especially the laughing part. Sometimes it even works!

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

It's always been my dream to get into a party convention and laugh hysterically at everything the candidates say. But I suspect I wouldn't get far.