For the past few years I’ve taken a moment on the day before Thanksgiving to post the latest DCCC Annual Let’s Ruin Thanksgiving Flyer. There’s one every year. It’s a bullet punch check list to guide the drone army in a national dinner-time defense of the progressive narrative.
Ever ask yourself why? Why does the left need to send its fawning acolytes a turkey-day palm card to help them get their Democrat ducks in a row? Ace nails it.
Supposedly progressives are super-informed and Love Science. Indeed, that’s the main “political” argument they’re actually arguing for.
So why is it so many of them seem to need these bluffer’s guides to explain to them why they believe the things they believe?
It doesn’t really make sense, does it? They’re anxious because they’re going to a Thanksgiving dinner where they won’t have an Automatic Affirmation Clap Circle applauding their poses and posturings, but instead might be asked things like “Where are you getting that claim from?”
And this produces in them a terrible anxiety — an anxiety disclosed by all these articles in their first paragraphs, which note the anxiety and fear before proposing a way to combat it.
But if they believe all these things so terribly fiercely, shouldn’t they already sorta know why they believe them?
It’s incredible, when you think about it — they go through the whole year believing in their progressive catechisms zealously but only bother to ask Why do we believe this progressive religious nonsense again? one single day of the year, the one single day of the year where they fear they might be questioned about their religious beliefs.
Here’s my suggestion. When your lefty relative of dinner guest gets ready to start their sermon, stop them as politely as you can and ask them if they’ve heard of a guy named Jonathan Gruber.
Happy Thanksgiving.
FYI – Last year OFA did the cheat sheet. It was on ObamaCare. And there was even a video (no longer available). I wonder how that would stand up post-Gruber?
