Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog
Bill Maher noted how Democrats are in danger of going the way of other “ghost brands” like Sears and Playboy.
• “A ghost brand, that’s a company or a store that like Sears still exists, but only as a pathetic shell of its former self.”
• “I fear the Democratic party is at risk of becoming a ghost brand too. Like Sears, it used to be mighty and ascendant and popular. Sears once accounted for 1% of the entire American economy and 41% of the appliance market and built the country’s tallest tower. Democrats once controlled Congress and the Supreme Court, or were at least competitive.”
• “The Democrats have their lowest rating in 35 years. 63% unfavorable. What happened? I don’t know.” This is a lie. Maher knows that social justice is killing the Democrat Party, he just doesn’t want to say it.
• “What happened to Sears? It used to be synonymous with the American Dream because it kept faith with what the customer wanted.” This is a reductio ad absurdum, as the American Dreams mean a whole lot more than the ability to buy decent material goods.
• “Did we love Sears? No. But that was besides the point. You just went. It was like an Avatar movie that sold tools. It used to be where your family bought everything from school clothes to appliances to your family Christmas portrait.”
• “Sears used to have 3,500 stores and now it has five.”
• “Same thing happened to Playboy, except in silk pajamas and a captain’s hat.”
• “For for 66 years, Playboy magazine was also a fact of American life. Sears sold your father a mattress and Playboy was what he hid under it.”
• “Plus real journalism. You could read an interview with Carter while enjoying photos of bush.”
• “But but then it started messing around with the formula. Like the Democratic Party, Playboy decided they didn’t need straight men anymore. They put transgender women and gay men on the cover and predictably sales, like their subscribers penises, collapsed.”
• “The staff began using terms like intersectionality, sex positivity, and privileging. And in response, Playboy readers use terms like, ‘No thanks, get the bleep out of here, and buy-bye.'”
• Cracker Barrel analogy snipped.
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