I was deeply shocked at age sixteen when I discovered that half of my relatives were complete idiots. I was just starting to develop my sense of discrimination. By that I mean the cognitive development that allows the human mind to affix a value on things and ideas. I was sitting in my uncle's basement apartment surrounded by the flotsam of his life. He owned at least one of everything ever marketed by Ron Popeil. Most of it was junk and all of it was broken. My uncle was a security guard who had chosen his profession so that he could get paid for watching late-night television.
A few years later I was assigned a college roommate majoring in business. His passion was advertising. It wasn't long before I understood most of the principles of the trade. "You see," he explained, "the secret to Ron Popeil is that the product doesn't matter. He's selling bargains to morons. Seriously, who do you suppose is watching Batman re-runs after midnight?" Um, my uncle. "But wait, there's more!" I stammered. Precisely. Only nothing Ron Popeil ever sold had any value, except for the concept of the bargain itself.
Today's leftist-progressive agenda relies on the same marketing technique that Ron Popeil pioneered so many decades ago. Only they've taken it one step better because there's no tangible product to fall apart in your hands right out of the box. Let's just cut to the chase and sell the idea instead! It won't matter if the idea is junk because indiscriminate people will buy anything. And it's harder to detect a broken idea than to know your salad spinner is busted.
-read on at above link before you dial 1-800----
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