If you don’t know it by now, I’m a big fan of the reversal.
Basically, it’s taking something your opponents are doing to you and turning it into something, which at the very least, is amusing. When you do it really well, you can use it to turn an opponent’s advantages into albatrosses around their necks. Kind of like my abuse of the word “maverick”.
Today, I’m going to cross the aisle and sit down. Then, I’m going to improvise and cause as much paranoia as is humanly possible in the health care debate. This will help turn one of the left’s most annoying habits, projection, into my very own personal form of amusement.
The left is projecting on us. They say every opponent of Disastercare is astroturfed, which is about the only way they manage to get protests assembled at all. I could be annoyed at the fact they want to believe it’s all a conspiracy, but why not pour some gas on that flame? It’s not like we could talk them out of it anyway.
So I’m going to make some suggestions about how to cause paranoia across the aisle. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
- “Why yes, I am being funded…by the White House. Obama is opposed to the Democrat’s health care plan.”
- “Where do you rent the mobs again?”
- “Shhhhh…the lefties are coming. DON’T PLAY THE IMPERIAL MARCH NOW, IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET!”
- “Our guest speaker today will be Emperor Palpatine. But first, fifteen minutes of supervillain laughter.”
Yes, we have to fight, but a little levity helps to refuel. Enjoy a little humor and then get back into it. I’ll be out there with you soon enough.