Why the Left thinks the Right is racist

Raidingkvatch has a mildly interesting blog post up about the Obama/Joker poster, and seeing the discussion surrounding it, and around the right's criticism of the Obama administration thusfar, I felt the need to raise a couple of points.
 
America was a socialist country long before Obama took power. So this sudden influx of anti-socialist criticism of the U.S. federal government seems to coincide with the installation of the Obama Administration in power.
 
Unfortunately, during the 8 years of the Bush Administration, the right did themselves no favours. Expanding the government's size and scope, and role in the economy exponentially (far beyond any previous point in American history) was coupled with the right's use of freedom-oriented rhetoric and it drove people to associate the hardship and misfortune of the Bush years with Capitalism and Liberty.
 
The truth of the matter is this banking crisis is not the advent of socialism in America, it is the fallout of years of mixed economy policy-making and an attempt of the central planners at the Federal Reserve to "moderate" the business cycle.
 
Having said this, the right is correct in their criticism of Obama, as his administration, and allies in the legislature destroy capital by the billions of dollars ( see Cash-for-Clunkers) and his desire to "correct" the ills of the U.S. healthcare system by driving an industry-wide cost savings program (which will, among other things, maroon families coping with rare diseases), and "reforming" it, by continuing the trend of the last 44 years in American Healthcare. The U.S. already has a semi-socialized healthcare scheme. In raw dollars, close to half of the total expenditures undertaken in healthcare are taken by federal or state governments, and entry to the health insurance market is deterred by the way the industry is regulated. Giving the currently-existing health insurers an effective oligopoly.
 
So yes, while the right is not entirely mistaken in criticizing the Democrats for the direction they're taking America in, my only question is "why weren't you raising your voices way earlier?"

I don't know, that's a good question. Maybe people hate him so much because of the fact that so many people blindly like him.  
 
The thing that people don't get, is that the Republican party is the big government party as well, not just the Democrats. As a matter of fact, lobbyists and government subsidies to big business were primarily the invention of the Republican party (See "Honest Abe").  
 
But really, I don't get the sudden uprising either. Let's see, Obama and the repubs are both pro-war, pro-central banking, pro-welfare state, pro-government subsidies, pro-price fixing, etc... 
 
There is no possible way that republicans can't critique Obama. 

So yes, while the right is not entirely mistaken in criticizing the Democrats for the direction they're taking America in, my only question is "why weren't you raising your voices way earlier?" "

Get a clue, please.

" @Delta_Ass: No, the point is why weren't pro-freedom intellectuals and pundits criticising people in their own party? Why are they silent when they hold the power, but vocal when they don't? Why not be ideologically consistent, i.e., why not adhere to your stated principles? "

the real reason is because the right disagrees with the left

" @trophyhunter: But as Burt pointed out in his post, that is simply not the case on a wide range of important issues. Including the ones being debated. "

" @trophyhunter: But aside from the expansion of surveillance of dissidents, what is he doing differently from other presidents in the last century or so of American politics? "

god i love video games

So where's the part where you explain the title? It seems more like a debunking of the "free market" belief.

Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting. So, have fun libs watching your defective programs, maybe next time you are wondering why your voice isn't being heard, look at how left journalists report or do not report very important issues. Most use cheap tactics, especially seen with attacks on Bush during the war on terror. I don't see how this is any different with how American people want to let their voice be heard.
 
Reality check, some Americans aren't fools to the government and the media. There's a very powerful tool out there: word of mouth, also overlooked. Sometimes people want to let their voice be heard. Both sides have been known to organize, we all know that, this has gone on forever in politics. What's so bad about talking about legitimate concerns for our country? Should we just sit back and let the government do whatever they want, whenver they want without debating?

Why on earth are you people discussing this here?

" Why on earth are you people discussing this here? "

" @trophyhunter: But like I said. He's continuing the pre-existing trends. He didn't invent deficit-financing. He inherited it.  And I don't think I can definitively answer the question myself. It was more to show that if you consider that Bush and Obama did the same thing, the only difference is the colour of their party and the colour of their skin. "

" @MB: Doesn't change the fact that this is a video game website. It's completely nonsensical to talk about stuff like this here instead of on a site where people actually know what they're talking about. "

@BRINKTheMovieMyFavoriteMovie said:

" @MB: Doesn't change the fact that this is a video game website. It's completely nonsensical to talk about stuff like this here instead of on a site where people actually know what they're talking about. "

This is Giamtbombica, and if you don' liek it you can giiiit out!  
 
I'm pretty surprised Keyzer_Soze hasn't chimed in on this yet.

Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting.

Leave you politics out of GB!

" @tekmojo: No, my point is not "Everybody shut up!" My point is speak up consistently. "

" @tekmojo said:

Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting.

Fox News and the words fair reporting should never go in the same sentence, or same paragraph for that matter "

" Leave you politics out of GB! "

" @Suicrat said:

" @tekmojo: No, my point is not "Everybody shut up!" My point is speak up consistently. "

Fair point. I wouldn't really consider myself a political type of person from day to day. In the past, growing out of my teen years, I never spoke out at all, I lived in a secluded world. Times change I guess, and there is no way one person can know everything that goes on in this country. I previously relied on what my instincts told me, or what my parents talked about.  That's on a personal level. On a larger scale change, I believe there is certainly some backlash from the right trying to influence the American people to stand up against some of Obama's most recent reform plans. But I also believe people are just fed up with the easy way out, I'd much rather see a gradual change to our government than an abrupt one. But hell I'm just one person, and one opinion, everyone should have a right to speak as much as they'd like whenver they'd like to. "

I think your premise is flawed in general. Politics isn't about giving a consistent message, since when was that the case? It's about adapting the message to stay in power. It matters not how well or poorly the country is run: everyone who is on the outside wants to be on the inside, if this was not the case, there wouldn't be political parties. 

I think it needs to be said that the "left" thinks the right is racist because of the tea parties (Tea baggers). Why not, I mean when almost half of the southern states constituents think Obama is Kenyan, well you have a definite problem and of course people will think that is racist (It is). 
 
Also, this cannot be said enough. I laugh at your claims of socialist.
 

"Fox News and the words fair reporting should never go in the same sentence, or same paragraph for that matter"

  @Snipzor: That graph plots arbitrary points on a grid and somehow it's meaningful?
 
McCain and Obama have no substantive ideological difference: they both believe central banking, government intervention in healthcare, the pre-emptive use of military force, and establishing supranational diplomatic frameworks should not be tied to political ideology.
 
So what exactly causes McCain to sit further right than Obama? And what is the difference between "left" and "right" as expressed on that graph?
 
 
I'm gonna go play some NHL 09. Here's hoping I've got some answers when I get back. You don't have to respond however. Then again, you probably already knew that.
 
P.S.: I'm totally baffled how an environmentalist could occupy any quadrant of the "Libertarian" side of the equator. This ultimately is what undermines the legitimacy of that graph in my mind.

"   @Snipzor: That graph plots arbitrary points on a grid and somehow it's meaningful?   McCain and Obama have no substantive ideological difference: they both believe central banking, government intervention in healthcare, the pre-emptive use of military force, and establishing supranational diplomatic frameworks should not be tied to political ideology.  So what exactly causes McCain to sit further right than Obama? And what is the difference between "left" and "right" as expressed on that graph?   I'm gonna go play some NHL 09. Here's hoping I've got some answers when I get back. You don't have to respond however. Then again, you probably already knew that.  P.S.: I'm totally baffled how an environmentalist could occupy any quadrant of the "Libertarian" side of the equator. This ultimately is what undermines the legitimacy of that graph in my mind. "

" @tekmojo: Sometimes, I wonder if stuff like this is even for real.  Do you actually think Fox News is the highest standard of journalistic integrity?  You don't notice any bias?  You do understand that it was created from the start to be for Republicans, right?  Like that's not me just throwing stuff around, the channel was actually started by the same people who help produce Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and it is going after the same audience.  We actually talked about this in a marketing class I took.  Before Fox News, most viewers thought CNN did a real good job.  Once Fox News started getting big, Republican voters opinion of CNN dropped real fast. "

" @Suicrat:  Once I created something called a Thrreeito, it's a burrito, in another burrito, in the heart of that very same burrito. It's a mind exploder, I know, but you don't hear me bragging about it all over your face. "

" Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting. So, have fun libs watching your defective programs, maybe next time you are wondering why your voice isn't being heard, look at how left journalists report or do not report very important issues. Most use cheap tactics, especially seen with attacks on Bush during the war on terror. I don't see how this is any different with how American people want to let their voice be heard. Reality check, some Americans aren't fools to the government and the media. There's a very powerful tool out there: word of mouth, also overlooked. Sometimes people want to let their voice be heard. Both sides have been known to organize, we all know that, this has gone on forever in politics. What's so bad about talking about legitimate concerns for our country? Should we just sit back and let the government do whatever they want, whenver they want without debating? "

" @tekmojo said:

" Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting. So, have fun libs watching your defective programs, maybe next time you are wondering why your voice isn't being heard, look at how left journalists report or do not report very important issues. Most use cheap tactics, especially seen with attacks on Bush during the war on terror. I don't see how this is any different with how American people want to let their voice be heard. Reality check, some Americans aren't fools to the government and the media. There's a very powerful tool out there: word of mouth, also overlooked. Sometimes people want to let their voice be heard. Both sides have been known to organize, we all know that, this has gone on forever in politics. What's so bad about talking about legitimate concerns for our country? Should we just sit back and let the government do whatever they want, whenver they want without debating? "

You mean the network that is reporting that Obama is looking to implement "death panels"? Oi vey. I'm not suprised that someone toting Fox uses a phrase like "Reality Check", of course a segment done by this guy.   For sure, Obama has done a lot of things I'm not happy about. He hasn't ended the illegal wiretapping programs, hasn't closed prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan with history of major abuse, and has said he will continue to hold foreign prisoners without any proof of wrongdoing. I can't forgive him for any of these things, and I'm shocked that true conservatives haven't picked up on these issues, as they fly in the face of everything conservatives stand for. Not suprising, since a true conservative network doesn't exist. Fox news should be that voice, but at this point its just a republican speaker phone. (BTW Conservatism doesn't necessairily equal republican, at least how I see it). Instead, Fox decides to take the non-conservative side of the Henry louis gates story, along with the rest of the republican party, just because Obama was against the arrest.   I guess the point i'm making is that I think most "left" people know that most "right" people aren't rascist, but they may not see " republicans" the same way.  "

" @AgentJ said:

" @tekmojo said:

" Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting. So, have fun libs watching your defective programs, maybe next time you are wondering why your voice isn't being heard, look at how left journalists report or do not report very important issues. Most use cheap tactics, especially seen with attacks on Bush during the war on terror. I don't see how this is any different with how American people want to let their voice be heard. Reality check, some Americans aren't fools to the government and the media. There's a very powerful tool out there: word of mouth, also overlooked. Sometimes people want to let their voice be heard. Both sides have been known to organize, we all know that, this has gone on forever in politics. What's so bad about talking about legitimate concerns for our country? Should we just sit back and let the government do whatever they want, whenver they want without debating? "

You mean the network that is reporting that Obama is looking to implement "death panels"? Oi vey. I'm not suprised that someone toting Fox uses a phrase like "Reality Check", of course a segment done by this guy.   For sure, Obama has done a lot of things I'm not happy about. He hasn't ended the illegal wiretapping programs, hasn't closed prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan with history of major abuse, and has said he will continue to hold foreign prisoners without any proof of wrongdoing. I can't forgive him for any of these things, and I'm shocked that true conservatives haven't picked up on these issues, as they fly in the face of everything conservatives stand for. Not suprising, since a true conservative network doesn't exist. Fox news should be that voice, but at this point its just a republican speaker phone. (BTW Conservatism doesn't necessairily equal republican, at least how I see it). Instead, Fox decides to take the non-conservative side of the Henry louis gates story, along with the rest of the republican party, just because Obama was against the arrest.   I guess the point i'm making is that I think most "left" people know that most "right" people aren't rascist, but they may not see " republicans" the same way.  "

actually o'reily is to left for me beck now that's a good guy.but I don't need to be telling this to you J base on our passed conversations. "

" @trophyhunter said:

" @AgentJ said:

" @tekmojo said:

" Fox News still destroys all other news media channels in ratings. Doesn't surprise me at all, since they are pretty much the only bearable outlet for fair reporting. So, have fun libs watching your defective programs, maybe next time you are wondering why your voice isn't being heard, look at how left journalists report or do not report very important issues. Most use cheap tactics, especially seen with attacks on Bush during the war on terror. I don't see how this is any different with how American people want to let their voice be heard. Reality check, some Americans aren't fools to the government and the media. There's a very powerful tool out there: word of mouth, also overlooked. Sometimes people want to let their voice be heard. Both sides have been known to organize, we all know that, this has gone on forever in politics. What's so bad about talking about legitimate concerns for our country? Should we just sit back and let the government do whatever they want, whenver they want without debating? "

You mean the network that is reporting that Obama is looking to implement "death panels"? Oi vey. I'm not suprised that someone toting Fox uses a phrase like "Reality Check", of course a segment done by this guy.   For sure, Obama has done a lot of things I'm not happy about. He hasn't ended the illegal wiretapping programs, hasn't closed prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan with history of major abuse, and has said he will continue to hold foreign prisoners without any proof of wrongdoing. I can't forgive him for any of these things, and I'm shocked that true conservatives haven't picked up on these issues, as they fly in the face of everything conservatives stand for. Not suprising, since a true conservative network doesn't exist. Fox news should be that voice, but at this point its just a republican speaker phone. (BTW Conservatism doesn't necessairily equal republican, at least how I see it). Instead, Fox decides to take the non-conservative side of the Henry louis gates story, along with the rest of the republican party, just because Obama was against the arrest.   I guess the point i'm making is that I think most "left" people know that most "right" people aren't rascist, but they may not see " republicans" the same way.  "

actually o'reily is to left for me beck now that's a good guy.but I don't need to be telling this to you J base on our passed conversations. "

I'm not going to hold it against you, but I could barely read what you typed.  
 
Oh yeah, good old Beck. He's perfectly sane and all, and I'm so proud that he is a product of my very own state.  "