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This is how it works: Something is repeated over and over again with fear attached and it bypasses our critical thinking element if we trust the person saying it. All hypnotists recognise that the critical element ought to be bypassed in order for hypnotic suggestions to take effect. The critical factor is our natural capacity to judge, reason and evaluate. Once bypassed, whatsoever suggestions the hypnotist gives ought to be followed. Without the critical factor, our subconscious computer just inputs the selective information and accepts it. That’s why stop smoking and weight loss sessions work. However, an idea repeated over and over again with fear attached may be accepted so well it may fabricate a faith system. This is why as children if we are told over and over again that we will never amount to anything, we receive this as fact and it may become a deeply held belief. The critical element may be bypassed in three ways: (1) by repetition of an idea with emotion attached as in seeing and hearing advertisements; Political talking points are merely words written out so that a lie may be told persuasively and the listener may be covertly hypnotized to receive it without reasoned thought. Republicans are pros at using this ability. It is called negative advertising, and it does win elections. Once given the so-called talking points, republican senators go out in mass and cover as a great deal of media outlets as possible and repeat these conservatively worded hypnotically covert suggestions to persuade the public to receive these ideas without reasoned thought. You may see politicians on television who never answer a direct question and only repeat their message over and over again. Some even hold up cards with a message on it to fetch in more senses than just hearing. It’s genuinely easy to do. Simply say anything at all, and then add the cautiously worded covert suggestion. “I went out for a walk today and met my elderly neighbor. She’s affrighted to death in regards to Obama’s death panels.” Look at each republican publicity and you will see a scary, fear-based message. You listen “job-killing” something each time a republican politician speaks. Democrats use the same tactics in negative advertisements, but not when talking to the media. They in truth seem to undertake to have a proper dialog with regards to the difficult times we are facing in America. However, they are overwhelmed with a tsunami of cash backing republican nominees and their message. It would be advancing if we could listen republications genuinely talking with regards to how jobs may be invented rather than see collective bargaining unions and teachers lose their jobs by the edicts of republican governers. Actions do speak louder than words. Most helpful customer reviews 163 of 210 people found the following review helpful. The idea is state sovereignty. Some reviewers will, by reflex perhaps, insist on spinning this as “states’ rights,” using anachronistic labels to imply that it entails revoking the Civil Rights Act or something. As a liberal Dallas Morning News reporter boiled it down recently, “Southern Governor Trumpets States Rights.” It’s easy to dismiss an idea with innuendo. Perry’s argument deserves to be engaged on the merits. Fed Up is an idea book, advocating core Constitutional ideas as protest against President Obama’s extension of government influence across society. Perry’s book argues along the lines of what George Will was writing about today (Nov. 4, fresh off the midterms), concerning how liberal ideas are almost always about how other people should live their lives, “how one group of people (the politically successful) should engineer everyone else’s contracts, social relations, diets, habits, and even moral sentiments.” The many choices in life, liberals tell us, should be replaced by a politically and intellectually fashionable menu of ‘Big Ideas’ that are “politically selected, centrally imposed, and enforced by government.” If you do a little reading, you’ll know this: That isn’t America. The most interesting part of Rick Perry’s book is the chapter “Why States Matter,” which argues for states as the laboratory of policy innovation. Even liberal advocates of homosexual marriage or legalized marijuana would agree that if California or Massachusetts want to enact state laws on those issues, they should be entitled to, and not be prevented by the overreaching feds. Perry’s intellectually honest enough to support that, as he would support conservative-friendly laws that may differ from what other states do. The whole idea is to get away from a federal nanny state that decides these things for us, with a national template. That’s not what our federal union is all about, and in Fed Up, Perry lays it out with force and economy. The Governor of Texas is a suitable national spokesperson for the rights of states to mind their own business. The book will appeal naturally to members of the Tea Party, but any American would profit by reacquainting himself with the notion of restraint that once applied to our consensus over how Americans would allow themselves to be governed. 76 of 103 people found the following review helpful. Mr. Bush may want to check out the new book by his successor as governor of Texas, Rick Perry, Fed Up!, as a corrective. Mr. Perry writes that the claim that Roosevelt’s New Deal ended the Depression is a “fraud” that “simply does not stand up to history.” He writes, “Consider that when FDR took office in 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent. It still topped 20 percent six years later, in 1939.” It’s not the only point on which the two Texas governors, both Republicans, differ. While Mr. Bush defends his decisions to intervene in the economy amid a downturn, Mr. Perry criticizes them: “We are fed up with bailout after bailout and stimulus plan after stimulus plan, each one of which tosses principle out the window along with taxpayer money.” Mr. Perry criticizes the seizure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September 2008, along with the Troubled Asset Relief Program signed into law in October 2008, as “the culmination of the statist’s dream — the literal upending of a unique American way of doing things that had been defined by self-reliance, hard work, faith, a belief in private charity not government, and, perhaps most of all, a devotion to free markets.” As Mr. Perry puts it, “this big-government binge began under the administration of George W. Bush.” Indeed, the most newsworthy element of Mr. Perry’s book is just how critical it is of Mr. Bush and other Republicans. The criticism is focused on economic policy but not limited to it; Mr. Perry also faults Mr. Bush for trying to order Texas to review criminal convictions of foreign nationals who had not been notified of their consular rights. That case went to the Supreme Court, where Texas won a 6-3 victory in Medellin v. Texas, allowing it to proceed with the execution of José Ernesto Medellín, who had raped and murdered two teenage girls. The book overall is an argument for enforcing the Tenth Amendment, limiting federal government, and relying more on the states. As a Northerner, I was also interested in Mr. Perry’s coverage of “states’ rights” in the run-up to the Civil War. He argues that the states whose rights were being violated in the run-up to the war were those of the North. He writes: “Unwilling to give up a way of life inexcusably based on an abominable practice, southern states persuaded Congress — the federal government — to pass the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which compelled citizens of northern states to act against their conscience and help return escaped former slaves into bondage. Meanwhile, the federal Supreme Court got involved, striking down states’ personal liberty laws and ruling in Dred Scott v, Sanford that federal territories could not be free and that free states were not entitled to offer the rights of citizenship to former slaves. Thus, while the southern states seceded in the name of ‘state’s rights,’ in many ways it was the northern states whose sovereignty was violated in the run-up to the Civil War.” So is this a 2012 presidential campaign book? It sure looks that way. Mr. Perry touts his own record in Texas: “the Texas unemployment rate is the lowest among the nation’s ten largest states…We have also produced more private-sector jobs than any other state in the nation over the past ten years…That’s what happens when you free up citizens to compete.” Mr. Perry also takes three separate swipes at the universal health care plan begun by one of his potential 2012 rivals, Mitt Romney, writing that since it was passed, “the waiting times to see a doctor in Massachusetts have nearly doubled,” while “the costs are so out of control” that a commission has already recommended rationing care. Even Newt Gingrich, another potential 2012 rival, who wrote the foreword to Mr. Perry’s book, is not spared. Mr. Perry writes that “most” of the “spending restraint” during the Gingrich-led Congress “came from not fighting President Clinton’s efforts to cut military spending.” It may be that, with the memory of President Bush still fresh, America doesn’t want to put another Texas governor in the White House. In an odd way, it’s similar to the challenge that George W. Bush faced back in 2000 with an electorate skeptical of putting another Bush in the White House. With this book, Governor Perry goes a long way toward distancing himself from Mr. Bush’s policies. And if he doesn’t end up as president, you get the sense he’d be okay with that, anyway, given the conviction with which he makes the case that more of the decisions in our country should be made in state capitals or by private individuals rather than in Washington. 87 of 126 people found the following review helpful. The book itself is a relatively quick read, at around 240 pages, but it succinctly captures the mood of today. Americans are fed up with the federal government’s overreach into our lives, and this book has several short-term, concrete solutions, as well as a long-term vision for how to get our country back on the path to freedom and prosperity. Rick Perry would return power to the states and let them be laboratories of innovation. He suggests a “balanced budget” amendment or a “spending limit” amendment to keep our politicians from breaking the bank over and over. He calls for a ban on pork barrel earmarks. He suggests limiting the number of days Congress is in session, and moving toward a biennial budgeting cycle as Texas has. He wants to repeal the 16th Amendment, which allows for a personal income tax. Perry bases these solutions on the Texas success story. In Texas, the legislature meets for only 140 days, every two years, and it is one of a handful of states without a state income tax. Texas is also where 4 out of 5 private sector jobs has been created in America since 2005. Ample research shows that states without income taxes (like Texas) perform better than states with income taxes, economically-speaking. Governor Perry isn’t running for President, and he makes that very clear, but this book is almost a manifesto for the position of Gubernatorial Majority Leader. Perry wants his fellow Governors, Democrat or Republican, to recognize that Washington, regardless of which party is currently in power, should not be an all-powerful source of one-size-fits-all edicts handed down from on high. This book in some ways is a rallying cry for other states to join Texas in actively reclaiming certain rights– as well as responsibilities and obligations– they have ceded to the federal government. It is an important, timely book, and I suspect a lot of what’s in this book will shape the debate for 2012 and 2014. |
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