Okay, this is hilarious.
You know those truly awful and generic "I'm a big lib" yard signs people put out alongside their rainbow flags and BLM banners that state their "beliefs" in all the things that make you a decent person to the left?
You know, this sign:
It's the largest leftwing virtue signal in existence today, and it's seen as something of a holy relic to the Left. So when they see it parodied, "misappropriated," meme-ified, or anything that comes close to that, they take it as a mockery.
Enter entrepreneur and Republican candidate for president Vivek Ramaswamy, who has adopted a campaign Ten Commandments in his rallies that the Left is super duper mad about:
- 1. God is real.
- 2. There are two genders.
- 3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
- 4. Reverse racism is racism.
- 5. An open border is no border.
- 6. Parents determine the education of their children.
- 7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
- 8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
- 9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
- 10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.
Here's how Mother Jones reacts to this list of what should be non-controversial, vanilla statements:
Yes, this campaign tool that's actually meant to be modeled after the biblical ten commandments is seen by the Left as an inversion of THEIR most holy scripture, the generic yard sign.
It appears, at least to me, that Ramaswamy decided to proclaim the opposite of each of the statements that are displayed on the most common "In This House, We Believe" yard signs commonly found in Democratic neighborhoods. "I just wrote down things that are true," Ramaswamy told the Atlantic. "It took me about 15 minutes." Maybe. But I'm convinced that this was a deliberate mockery. (I tried calling Ramaswamy's press secretary for comment, but her voicemail was full.)
This Mother Jones writer thinks Ramaswamy deliberately parodied those stupid yard signs and is attacking the Democrats with his statements of [checks notes] incontrovertible truth.
If that was the case, then why wouldn't Ramaswamy be selling the parody signs to raise money for his campaign? I'm sure it would go hugely viral. And it would be hilarious.
But that's not what he did. But some lefties have a tough time believing that not everything has to do with them personally.
Back to Mother Jones:
Some of these are stretches, but bear with me. In Ramaswamy's world, "Science is real" becomes "God is real." Commandment number 4 is the inverse of "Black Lives Matter"; number 5 is the response to "No human is illegal"; the supremacy of the nuclear family counters "Love is love"; "There are two genders" responds to "women's rights are human rights"; "Human flourishing requires fossil fuels" answers "Water is life"; and the Constitution's protection of freedoms negates the assertion that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Commandments 6, 8, and 9 round out the list to a healthy 10.
The author then goes on to just belabor the point over and over again. Putting the phrases side-by-side (with three leftover, of course) and essentially saying the same thing with slightly different words (in some cases).
Because EVERYTHING has to be about you, lefties?
If I was on Ramaswamy's team, I'd just own it. I'd say it wasn't intentional, but putting it on our own yard signs is not a bad idea, at all.
I mean, I'd buy that sign or T-shirt, and I'm not even supporting Vivek.
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