Archie-izing and Other Liberal Strategies

If you have no cogent argument against a proposition, attack your opponent and ignore their argument. That’s a basic tactic of liberals/progressives. They have been using it successfully for decades. The most popular form of this tactic is using the straw man of race against anyone opposing the loony liberal (sorry for the redundancy) ideas supported by the left. The archetype of this is Archie Bunker, a creation of the liberal entertainment elites that conveniently depicts the angry, bitter, stupid, hate-filled racist that, to them, illustrates the troglodyte thinking of white men in America. The idea, which has had great success, is to demonize all the white men and all of their ideas as something to be scorned and disregarded, regardless of what any one of these people think or say or do because their thinking and therefore their thoughts, words and actions spring from the hideous well of race hatred. This idea is rooted in the belief that you can judge the thoughts, words and actions of a white man by the color of his skin.



Enter Joe Wilson, who for some reason that may or may not involve his being emotionally overcome by having to listen to a bald-faced lie by President Obama, shouted “You Lie!” during a speech before a joint session of the Congress. Don’t consider that what was just uttered is certainly a lie. Just look at Joe Wilson and make your judgment that his statement must be disregarded because it is surely motivated by race because – horrors! – he’s a white man! Jimmy Carter, whose signal accomplishment as President was to do such a horrible job that the electorate elected Ronald Reagan in a landslide, provides cover for those who believe that you can judge a white man by the color of his skin by calling the people who have demonstrated against the policies of the Obama Administration racists. Whenever I think about the miserable incompetence and worse of the Carter administration, I always think about their signal accomplishment. It may have been worth it.



Expect to see more of this race straw man and “Archie-izing” from Obama surrogates, because it has worked for forty years or more. Don’t expect to see or hear any such talk from Obama. He’ll stay out of sight on this issue – along with Rev. Wright.
Dennis Sienko, Bend Oregon