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by Bill Moyers | June 30, 2017 - 7:57am
from Moyers & Company
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Take a look at the ad below and ask whether the National Rifle Association can go any lower. Ponder this flagrant call for violence, this insidious advocacy of hate delivered with a sneer, this threat of civil war, this despicable use of propaganda to arouse rebellion against the rule of law and the ideals of democracy.
On the surface this is a recruitment video for the National Rifle Association. But what you are really about to see is a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, each word and image deliberately chosen to stir the feral instincts of troubled souls who lash out in anger and fear:
Disgusting. Dishonorable. Dangerous. But also deliberate. Everything deplored by the NRA in the ad is committed by they a classic manipulation turning anyone who disagrees with your point of view into The Other something alien, evil, foreign.
Well, we all know who they are, dont we? This is the vitriol that has been spewed like garbage since the days of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, blasted from lynch mobs and demagogues and fascistic factions of political parties that turn racial and religious minorities into grotesque caricatures, the better to demean and diminish and dominate.
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-moyers/73734/nra-issues-call-for-white-supremacy-and-armed-insurrection
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)We need a big alternative group that allows registered hunting guns for hunters, other registered guns, bans all automatic ammo except for military and some law enforcement. Much more
NRA gets a lot of these dumb people because they convince them that libs will take their guns.
We could appeal to a lot of reasonable people and have a chance at strongly mitigating their support.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Not likely to get the big bucks necessary for that, I guess.
IndianaDave
(612 posts)And is as disgusting as anything we have ever seen. Barfworthy!