How the Republicans are fighting back
After a very strange discussion with a couple of neighbors and friends online last night, I realized how the Republicans are going to win the off year elections.
There are a million rumors floating around, and they're so scarey and so strange and so huge that people are believing them (who would make something like that up?). My neighbor told me last night that the emission caps were going to raise the price of electricity so much that we weren't going to be able to turn out lights on at night. (Which is wrong). Then the other one told me that if we took all the money Obama had spent bailing out the banks (hello, it was the BUSH administration that did that) you'd be able to give every american $1M (which is also WRONG). And that Obama would rather bail out the banks than the auto companies. Uh, also wrong. I have a friend who just was bitching about the "new" nuclear plant regulations, which aren't new, and weren't put in place by Obama administration but the Ford and Carter administrations. One person is bitching about free trade and another is bitching about restrictive trade. And then there's the whole "Obama is going to take away your guns" scare. And let's not even get into the whole healthcare discussion, which has had me shouting at my sisters "Do you work for insurance companies? Than WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?".
The rumors are so pervasive that Democrats are beginning to believe them. I'm turning into a one woman truth team. I don't care if you're arguing about things which have already happened or things that are really going to happen, but it's very hard to fight this kind of scarey rumor because you're having to prove that it isn't going to happen.
As I told my neighbors before I faked having to chase P back in the house "Take a deep breath, people. Let's give him more than 100 days before freaking out. At least wait until the end of the damned year."
There are a million rumors floating around, and they're so scarey and so strange and so huge that people are believing them (who would make something like that up?). My neighbor told me last night that the emission caps were going to raise the price of electricity so much that we weren't going to be able to turn out lights on at night. (Which is wrong). Then the other one told me that if we took all the money Obama had spent bailing out the banks (hello, it was the BUSH administration that did that) you'd be able to give every american $1M (which is also WRONG). And that Obama would rather bail out the banks than the auto companies. Uh, also wrong. I have a friend who just was bitching about the "new" nuclear plant regulations, which aren't new, and weren't put in place by Obama administration but the Ford and Carter administrations. One person is bitching about free trade and another is bitching about restrictive trade. And then there's the whole "Obama is going to take away your guns" scare. And let's not even get into the whole healthcare discussion, which has had me shouting at my sisters "Do you work for insurance companies? Than WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?".
The rumors are so pervasive that Democrats are beginning to believe them. I'm turning into a one woman truth team. I don't care if you're arguing about things which have already happened or things that are really going to happen, but it's very hard to fight this kind of scarey rumor because you're having to prove that it isn't going to happen.
As I told my neighbors before I faked having to chase P back in the house "Take a deep breath, people. Let's give him more than 100 days before freaking out. At least wait until the end of the damned year."