This group aims to pick away at the constant description of Democrats as whiners, freeloaders and generally people who don't know how to stand up on their own two feet.
A commonly seen bumper sticker in my area says :How to annoy a Democrat: Work Hard and Be Happy".
I like it. Nevertheless, who is doing most of the whining? Democrats I know and love tend to work extremely hard, earn a great living, and tend to live very happily in general. Some democrats feel like victims, particularly over the past eight years of catastrophic government. Yet we do not whine, we work hard for change.
The whining I hear is from working class republicans, who - understandably - must feel very much like road kill. They voted for George Bush. They lost their jobs, or lost much of the quality of life they knew before. They compete with illegal immigrants in an increasingly discount-oriented labor market. They fervently adhere to their republican principles, somehow managing to blame the "angry left" for all their woes.
What about the Angry Right? And who will help them?
And more importantly, how must well-off Democrats work to address the cast of penniless loafers who prefer to beg for lunch than work for it? Right wing talk radio often preempts this discussion when talking about democrats who are not poor. Suddenly, we are wine drinking, brie-eating snobs. We're Champagne socialists, when we're not angry schoolteachers.
Advertising works by creating an emotional attraction to the image of he product. Hollywood does great work for the Democratic Party, simply by association of idol with political preference. Talk radio tries in vain to paint Hollywood people as God-hating, drug addicted circus clowns. Sometimes with some success, sometimes not.
Silicon Valley's billionaires are almost 90% democrat leaning. They believe firmly in technology's potential to help us out of fossil fuel dependency, and often are strong philanthropists and givers to their communities. Fox news works hard to discredit their ideas and portrays them as mad scientists who got lucky somehow.
We have our work cut out for us: to highlight the Obama support camp that's made up of high earning individuals, who live happy healthy lives and who believe in both enterprise and a caring, educated America, where extremes of poverty, sickness, ignorance and violence are a thing of the past.
Using the principles of powerful advertising campaigns, we must emphasize the sheer number of wealthy Americans who believe in Obama. Not unemployed pot smoking bums, but business school grads who drive sports cars and vacation in Fiji, France and the Seychelles, and who believe schools and hospitals are infact cheaper than a trillion dollar war that never needed to happen.
Please join our group and contribute ideas to this growing movement!
Mark Brennan and Friends
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