A few observations
Published Tue, Jan 30 2007 12:05 AM
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I work on Seattle's Capitol Hill. It's a rather interesting place. Within easy walking distance of where I work, there's a Safeway, a QFC, a 7-11 and a bunch of small restaurants. There's no shortage of food at lunchtime, so I occasionally go for a walk to get some.
Invariably as I walk I notice posters and signs tacked or pasted to the telephone poles, light poles, and even all over newstands and other surfaces. A few of them are posters advertising some band, club or play. Most of them are political in nature. Of those, I have yet to see a single one that advocates a conservative point of view.
That shouldn't be a surprise. After all, I work in Seattle.
The latest example of this political speech was advertising some sort of event to discuss the events that took place on September 11, 2001. The "loose change" crowd was involved. That's a group that proves that facts don't matter to the left. I'm sure they'll be issuing sheets of tinfoil at the door.
Another poster that's prominent is getting pretty old. It has been pasted just about everywhere, and most of the posters are old, torn or weather-worn. But they'll never go away because you'd have to take a steam-cleaner to them to get them off of everything. These are the "Replacements Needed" posters that for the last couple of years were counting up the number of military and Iraqi casualties.
There are small "shac" stickers on the back of stop-signs. "Drive out the Bush Regime" and "The World Can't Wait" posters are popular too.
I spent some time looking up the organizations behind these posters. I've visited their websites. I've looked at the lists of contributors.
Almost all of them are overt communists, socialists, or anarchists. A few of them advocate the forcible overthrow of the U.S. government and the abolition of capitalism.
One of the more interesting posters I read lately discussed the irony of the anti-war position in the home of Microsoft and Boeing. Of course they were solidly anti-capitalist.
If there's an anti-American cause being championed anywhere in the U.S., it's almost a sure bet that eventually one of their posters will end up stuck to a telephone pole somewhere on Seattle's Capitol Hill.
This isn't the liberal mainstream... yet. Wait a decade or two though and it will be.
Liberals like to cloak their views with euphemisms. They prefer the term "progressive" to "liberal". For a while I thought that it was just an attempt to own the terms of debate, after all, who isn't for "progress"?
I've changed that view though. I think they prefer the term "progressive" because that's how they implement their agenda.
Compromising with liberals is a bad idea. Liberals don't compromise. Instead, they wait for "moderates" and "mavericks" on the right to "move to the center". Of course any time someone on the right "moves to the center" it's really just a slide to the left. When that happens, the center progressively moves leftward.
Pretty soon, conservative values like self-reliance, integrity, and responsibility become "extremist right-wing" ideology. In Seattle, they've even become part of the definition of "racism".
If posters are the way to convince the left, maybe conservatives should start putting them up. Hey, it worked for the left in the '60s right?
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