Emotion for the Many

“I use Emotion for the MANY and reserve reason for the FEW.”- Adolf Hitler

Emotion. It’s a powerful tool when you are trying to persuade and manipulate people.

I remember as a teenager listening to a late uncle of mine talk about how he made a living selling high-end sports cars in the 80’s by using this tactic. “You gotta sell the dream” he used to tell me. “Get them away from thinking about that sticker price and those outrageous monthly notes instead get them thinking about how bad ass they are going to look driving that car around.”  I remember asking him if he ever felt bad about using manipulative sales tactics like that.  He would smile and say “Nope. Never felt bad in the least. They are adults. When they walk on that car lot they know what they are getting into. Besides, there was always a small percentage of buyers with whom these tactics did not work. The LOGIC AND REASON driven buyer. Those people could no be swayed.”

I will never forget what he said to me next:

“Kid, don’t ever let EMOTION drive your decision-making. Nothing good will ever come out of it.”

I have been thinking a lot about that conversation lately, and if my Uncle were alive today, I would sincerely thank him for giving me that pearl of wisdom, because it has definitely served me well!

Too bad America’s liberals did not have a wise old uncle like mine.

Ever since the massacre at Parkland the left has been on a shameless campaign of emotionally driven hoplophobia hysteria. It seems there is no end to their arguments which are always devoid of any logic or reason. And I guess  the saddest part of all this are the “useful idiots” they have placed in the limelight, the “brave teenagers” (to quote Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack) who just a couple of months ago were too busy eating tide pods or updating their status on facebook to really care about anything, but are now suddenly the new “experts” on gun control in America?

It’s insanity.

But of course, this is nothing new.

The left has been using children to manipulate the masses regarding gun control for the past decade.

Consider the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting when obama famously shed a tear during a press conference or how about when obama surrounded himself with children while signing a series of executive actions favoring gun control?

The fact of the matter is that the left is not interested in LOGIC when it comes to gun control, they are only interested in their AGENDA, which is if you use the tiniest shred of common sense is a GUN BAN and eventually GUN CONFISCATION.

Don’t believe me? Read this eye-opening article at Breitbart. 

And for those on the Right who say this is nothing but “hyped gun confiscation hysteria”, take an honest look at those six items in that article and tell me it could not happen in 2020. After Trump, we have to believe that anything is possible in politics now folks.

Personally, I am done arguing the merits of the Second Amendment to people who are diametrically opposed to individual freedoms in the first place. Individual freedoms afforded to me via The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Done with it.

Stay Armed, Stay Alert and Stay Dangerous.