Dog-whistling – It looks like two more animal person analogies are currently floating around our Deceit of Democracy: \u2018Dog-whistle politics\u2019 and \u2018Lynton Crosby\u2019s Dead Cat\u2019. The \u2018dog-whistle\u2019 tactic is to make a comment, negative in essence, designed to attract that sector of the public who will make a knee-jerk response to any suggestion that confirms their prejudices. The \u2018dead cat\u2019 is a noxious comment in debate designed to deflect attention away from a serious issue, which, precisely because it stinks becomes the one widely reported by the dog-whistle media. Are Humans as servile as dog persons? Well, they do share this predilection for mindlessly chasing balls. But I digress \u2013 again. Both tactics are morally despicable and bordering on lies, and commonly used by the Bully Boys to denigrate the Opposition. This pit-bullying attack on honest inquiry is a fair indicator of arse-covering: they know that we know that they have made a dog\u2019s dinner of our economy and social fabric, penalising the poor for the crimes of the rich, whilst blaming everyone except themselves for our moribund state of affairs. In my opinion, the offer of an EU referendum is also a \u2018dead cat\u2019 \u2013 it stinks of political dog-whistling. The Tutankhamun the Third Oracle predicts this Tory Deceit of Democracy will go down in history as the biggest pile of dog poo in living memory\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dog-whistling – It looks like two more animal person analogies are currently floating around our Deceit of Democracy: \u2018Dog-whistle politics\u2019 and \u2018Lynton Crosby\u2019s Dead Cat\u2019. The \u2018dog-whistle\u2019 tactic is to make a comment, negative in essence, designed to attract that sector of the public who will make a knee-jerk response to any suggestion that confirms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}