Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Memes

There's a couple new memes the Right has picked up on of late.

One is the meme that these government union workers make so much money. Barring that, they make so much in benefits.

This is an unusual meme for the Right because by-and-large these are the same people telling non-union workers how much worse off they'll be if they join a union. But they gotta go with trying to get people to build class-resentment against people who are in their same class.

The other meme is all about how Islam was responsible for slavery.

Now, of course, that meme doesn't really make any sense, but that's what it's all about. The anti-Islam memes now include the idea that "Radical Islamofacists" have penetrated the highest levels of the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA. Which is, of course, nuts. And really this is all about having a Communist/Muslim/black President.

It does seem that these memes aren't really sticking though. It's hard to convince the critical "undecideds" that Barack Obama really is a threat to our way of life, or that there are communists Muslims under our beds. But there are clearly a lot of people who believe this malarky.

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