Dems Plan "Redistribution of Wealth," Says Kevin McCarthy

[NJCher]

From a persuasive standpoint, I think the republicans' campaign against the infrastructure bill is a loser.

I was clicking around news sites when I ran across a headline at The New York Post. It said, "McCarthy slams Dem plan: 'It’s redistribution of wealth'."

I thought well now, isn't that just what we need! What is Kevin McCarthy doing? PR for the Democrats?

Opinion polls have long shown that republicans, independents, and Democrats think that the wealthy and the corporations need to pay their fair share. So WTF?

Wanting to post the story here, but not wanting to cite a sleazy source like the NY Post, I googled the headline and found something very interesting. You can check it yourself if you just take the headline "McCarthy slams Dem plan: 'It’s redistribution of wealth' and put it in a search engine.

This story is pretty much appearing only in right wing media. Sources like (don't give them a click, please. I am only posting them for purposes of example):

--the patrioticretirementclub

--thedailytruthreport

--forbesalert

--rightreport

and many, many more. I never realized what a network of right winger disinfo sites they have going. Almost as prolific as their r-w hate radio network. As I skipped through the pages, I saw no reputable news sites with this story.

So having been a former PR person, what this means is that they devised this strategy angle of "redistribution of wealth," and they issued a press release on it to all of their r-w friendly sites. That is the reason it is all appearing at the same time and that the stories all pretty much read the same.

They have a second angle on this story, which strikes me as equally inept. It is "Rep. McCarthy slams Democrat spending plan as more than cost to win WWII."

From a PR standpoint, I think both these angles are misguided and quite frankly, kind of stupid.

The WWII comparison makes one think they are really hurting for a second angle. WWII? Really? WWII dollars compared to 2021 dollars?

So to sum up, I don't get their strategy on this. You can't tell me that they have internal polls showing that Americans don't want a redistribution of wealth because they do.

And the WWII thing is just bizarre.

[Backseat Driver]

1. Like most grifters and their associates, watch what they do not what they say

Just so a lot of cream ends up in their power cups...that insurrection wasn't just ad lib grumpy tourists. And those awkward polls - there's plenty of fudge factors involved including social media influencers of cult culture who will pick it up and run with it for a moment of short-attention span gospel even before parsing "redistribution" that means jobs, fair pay checks, lower healthcare costs, and the pride one gets from saying "I live in an awesome well-governed community with people who care and work hard together to overcome obstacles to opportunity with each other and their environment."

[Roy Rolling]

2. Sounds good to me

Wealth on the hands of idiots is money wasted. Find a way to tax morons like the Trump spawns.

[Skittles]

3. they say that whenever the idea of the super rich paying more comes up

because they fucking know HOW UNFAIR IT IS

[cstanleytech]

4. No, the tax cut granted to the wealthy was given to them due to the misguided belief that they

would then pass it on to the rest of us in the form of jobs and better pay.
That however never happened and instead they have actually caused millions to fall into poverty because they did not raise peoples pay to keep up with even the cost of living and the jobs they created are actually overseas as they offshored more and more jobs.

[Bettie]

12. Do you really think that any Republican

believed that they would pass it on with jobs and better pay? I don't.

They knew what it was and they didn't care.

[Midnight Writer]

17. Yes. "I never had a poor man give me a job" is a common view.

[Bettie]

18. I miscommunicated on this, I meant Republican congresscritters

they knew full well what they were doing and enjoyed doing it.

Average people are more likely to believe the lies.

They don't even get that the rich guy isn't "giving" you a job, they need workers because people are spending money and creating economic activity. Heck, I learned that in high school econ class...which I don't think they have in schools anymore.

[Midnight Writer]

19. I agree with that. Republican economic policy is a deliberate scam against working folks.

[Bettie]

21. And thanks for the response

I definitely missed the mark I was aiming for, but it's early and I have not yet had coffee!

I have often heard that "rich man/job" phrase.

[cstanleytech]

26. I'm talking about the average person that bought into the lie but the Republican politicians

iknew it was an outright lie ,

[Bettie]

28. I realized that after the fact

It amazes me how gullible right wingers are.

[Boomerproud]

5. Rinse and repeat.

[Raven123]

6. Actually Dems are just recovering the wealth of Americans ...

… that has been siphoned away from them and funneled to a selective few over the past 40 years

[Bettie]

13. And they will end up with those dollars eventually

but if they could go through more hands (transactions) before they go into the investment portfolios/bank accounts of the very rich, that would be nice and good for the economy.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Gee, I hope so.

FDR did that and things worked out pretty good.

[Scrivener7]

9. The redistribution of wealth in the USA from everyone else to the top .1% in the past 40 years has

been unprecedented.

This is just more projection from the republiQan billionaire toadies.

[Celerity]

11. +10000000000000000

[TheNationalRazor]

16. Precisely. This needs to be pointed out at every opportunity. Nt

[WHITT]

10. Actually

It's just a RE-redistribution of wealth. The Repubs already redistributed the wealth UPWARDS.

[BleedsBlue]

14. We should change our message too...

We're not redistributing wealth

We're redistributing FAIRNESS...

[NJCher]

23. very good point

How can we communicate this point to the message people at the Democratic party?

[GoCubsGo]

15. Kevin is just upset that the Dems want to reverse THEIR redistribution of the wealth.

Because, that is what THEY have been doing for the past 50 years. They redistributed into the pockets of their wealthy donors. It sounds to me like another of their last gasps of desperation. The bill is popular, even among those in his party. And, the vast majority also want the ultra-wealthy to start paying their fair share. He's down to pulling shit out of his ass in an attempt to scare people out of their support.

[FakeNoose]

20. Let's dig up Ronald Reagan and ask HIM about the redistribution of wealth

Reagan was responsible for the largest redistribution of wealth EVER in history.
It all went to the One Percenters, as the rest of us know.

[Hotler]

22. How? We can't get our own party memebers to vote as a team. The rich are safe. nt

[lagomorph777]

24. Qevin MqQarthy is endorsing Build Back Better?

Wow, thanks Qev!

[Baked Potato]

25. Call it "Redistribution of Health" Nt

[ananda]

27. That is not a lie. Wow!

We want to make the wealth spread
to everyone, not just the rich.

[Caliman73]

29. Right wingers got tired of losing the messaging battle in reality so they made their own...

There has always been media/press from every political persuasion, but after the fiasco of the Nixon administration and his resignation from office, right wingers vowed to not let it happen again. Nixon, Ailes, and Buchanan wanted to set up a GOPTv concept even before, but what happened to Nixon really catalyzed the situation.

Since then, right wing millionaires and billionaires have put forward a concerted effort to reshape the media landscape. They own many outlets in TV, radio, and internet. They almost always carry the same messaging, almost word for word.

It really has created an alternative to reality where many people get fact free propaganda.

We used to have discussions and disputes over the established facts, but now right wingers make stuff up so that we aren't even dealing with facts anymore. Right wingers who stay in their bubble can come out not even knowing what is really going on in the world.

[Mr.Bill]

30. It's about time the wealth got redistributed.

The first time they distributed it they fucked it all up.

[DemocraticPatriot]

31. And he says that, as if it is 'a bad thing' ??

Of course, he is virtue-signaling to his wealthy contributors...