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The Need to Explain

va1234 Wrote: Nov 14, 2012 11:06 PM

The single biggest problem Americans have is understanding that there are very venal people in charge of their economy, people who only want what they want and will do anything to ensure that they are going to remain rich and get richer. These people are not moral, they are not immoral, they are amoral, they have no morality, they have no way of thinking in terms of how anyone but themselves will benefit. Unfortunately too many Americans are stuck in thinking that those who so recently fleeced them in the recent economic crisis are like them but somehow just did not get it. Too many Americans are having a difficult time in coming to the realization that there are people who do not care about them and will only respond to absolute...

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The Need to Explain

The most successful Republican presidential candidate of the past half century-- Ronald Reagan, who was elected and reelected with landslide victories-- bore little resemblance to the moderate candidates that Republican conventional wisdom depicts as the key to victory, even though most of these moderate candidates have in fact gone down to defeat.

One of the biggest differences between Reagan and these latter-day losers was that Reagan paid great attention to explaining his policies and values. He was called "the great communicator," but much more than a gift for words was involved. The issues that defined Reagan's vision were things he...

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