Left Wing Pinko buttons available

I just picked some up at Outer Layer and Sweet Pete's.  The women in Outer Layer said they had sold hundreds.

Reminds me of the Monty Python episode where the guy's in a ballerina tutu with a pink boxing glove on one hand and a spectacle in one eye, or something. And he says, Fishy, fishy, oh? I wonder where my fishy went?  Cherry's a laff riot. It must be an act. No one can be that much of an idiot naturally.

Malcolm wrote:

Fidel wrote:

Reminds me of the Monty Python episode where the guy's in a ballerina tutu with a pink boxing glove on one hand and a spectacle in one eye, or something. And he says, Fishy, fishy, oh? I wonder where my fishy went?  Cherry's a laff riot. It must be an act. No one can be that much of an idiot naturally.

 

No, he's not an idiot.  And neither is Ford.

Instead of laughing at these guys, the left would do well to read Brian Topp's latest (conveniently available on rabble)

Well okay? But we are arguing the same points imo.

A single point from Brian Topp's rabble column:

Quote:

Conservatives are proud of their country and will defend it; progressives hate their country and want to give in to our enemies. Etc.

Imo we could do a lot better on the anti-war front. First of all we have to make people realize the recent history of our "enemies" in Afghanistan and Iraq who were not there at one time but are today. In fact, our largest trade partners and their Saudi and Pakistani elitist friends have created these enemies of their own doing over the last 30+ years!

And no, it's not a one-time deal or a mistake made by the CIA and Brits and one they've admitted to and are supposedly now traveling the path of the straight and narrow. The deliberate mistakes are and will continue to be ongoing. The "war on terror" is a complete charade.

If Cherry and Ford want to look and act like sinister characters from a Batman and Robyn movie, then we should help them to do that by all means. We on the left should expose them for being tools of the kleptocracy.

We should not take this name calling of pinkos lying down. This is a bullying tacting by a right wing crackpot. The name calling is meant to dehumanize or perhaps to simply demoralize the left imo. We are only pinkos afterall. What's next, a beer hall putsch and thugs attacking us in the streets?

So how can we prevent the CBC from promoting war and animosity toward lefties during Hockey night in Canada?

And how do we convince citizens of Greater Toronto-Gotham that raising overall federal tax revenues as is the case in dozens of other rich capitalist countries (and not taxing low income earners as the right suggests we would do) is a good plan?

How can we compete against well funded propaganda machine that tells so many lies about the political left?

They have to be able to produce some kind of results for the working class. And with the neoliberal agenda falling apart at the seams, that should make it easier for the left to expose these clowns as the frauds that they are.

Rob Ford types are going to have to do a lot of lying over their terms in power because they won't be making lemonade from the ideological lemon they have to work with in this country.

And Don Cherry is another fraudulent champion of the working class. He's a bum. His win record has been padded by crooked fight promoters on the right. He's never matched against real contenders.

Fascism is a three-ring circus with dazzling light shows, sparkle and glitz. It's not real.

We need our own training stables downtown. The left needs a working man's slugger to represent them in the squared circle. We need our own Rocky Balboa to take down the clown in Toronto City Hall.

 Mickey: You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder! 

it would be a "shame" if don cherry dropped dead due to lead poisoning. lol

Fidel wrote:

So how can we prevent the CBC from promoting war and animosity toward lefties during Hockey night in Canada?

And how do we convince citizens of Greater Toronto-Gotham that raising overall federal tax revenues as is the case in dozens of other rich capitalist countries (and not taxing low income earners as the right suggests we would do) is a good plan?

How can we compete against well funded propaganda machine that tells so many lies about the political left?

Yes, that is the question, isn't it.

We won't do it by whining about media bias (though reinforcing the idea of media bias has worked well for the right.)

Curiously, Tommy Douglas had to face a corporate media that was even more biased - and he still managed to win an election in 1944.

On the one hand, I see characters like Don Cherry as well as other individuals like Steyn, Coulter, Mallick, Murphy et al as tireless self-promoters who have acquired their schtick and are working it to prosperity. Its not ideology, its marketing.

On the other, these characters present a lightening rod that galvanises unbelievers into an unproductive frenzy of dissent. Rather than opposing the policies that progressives find objectionable, they rush to swallow the bait and embrace the leftist caracature presented, reinforcing the negative 'pinko' stereotype: 'socialists to the last dollar of other people's money'.

Wearing these badges will remind the voter not of the struggle for progressive programs but rather the negative perceptions of the left as presented by the clown character Cherry.

Roscoe wrote:

I wonder how Tommy Douglas would fare in today's media soundbite circus? My opinion is that he could conquer the style and do rather well.

Great debates never go out of style. Douglas loved spirited repartee, and would dismantle Harper, Flaherty and Baird into component parts. Ignatieff, he'd have left to punch himself out.

If a politician with the charisma and debating style of Douglas appeared in either the Sask or federal NDP, it would galvanize the party, no question.