Political Musings

If the democrats had any conscience at all they would relabel themselves the Communist PRty of America. That would be the most truthful thing they have done in my 40 years on the planet.

pretty discouraging... but remember 2000 when they called Florida for Gore because of exit polls which were wrong? In 2004 everyone thought that Kerry had won big due to exit polls that were wrong. They always try to suppress the vote or influence elections with these polls. Let's prove them wrong once again!

Like you I can't believe that people will vote based on the Foley issue. Our economy is doing great and the stock market is up! They used to say that people voted on the economy. Why would we want to risk a change now?

It is mistifying that anyone would want to live in a liberal state of mind. Just look at their attempt at talk radio! A total bomb! No one wants to listen to constant negativity!

I just read De-Vine-Gamecock's blog on this subject from his ex-lib point of view. It's quite encouraging. He contrasts dem voters with GOP voters, and his perspective is very revealing. Check it out.

I think we are going to have a landslide to celebrate!

Great post! Well stated.:)

The problem with politics is that it is not based on truth or reason. It is based on emotion. You have only to study a few political groups to know that political power and the ability to coerce belongs only to those who can grab and hold it. It is nonsense to think that citizens, and infrequently voters, appeal to reason.

If the citizens of the world were paying attention to their leaders then history would not have evolved in the disgusting manner in which we view it. Politicians make statements such as the Churchillian:”The people who control history control the future.” They certainly do. Or, we can look at Mao’s assertion that “political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” It certainly does.

Why do citizens act as if they are oblivious to danger?? Why did 20,000,000 kulaks die when they were such a large group? How could China fall into the control of first the far right and then the far left, suffer 65,000,000 starved and continue on without protests? How did Stalin starve 7-8,000,000 Ukrainians or Hitler send 7,000,000 Jews off to be murdered?

These things happen, mostly, because political theory is not taught as such. We study something called ‘government’ and that consists of the Mountain of Minutiae approach to teaching. After spending 18 years studying this swamp of details the student will know little or nothing about how politics work. What a politician likes best is to have a bunch of voters mumbling and arguing about something that is not important and will not threaten their power base.

Normal voting citizens in the US when polled show an astonishing ignorance of the people or issues in any campaign. Many voters are single-issue zombies. Of the probable mass of salient facts available to the general public the average voter makes firm decisions on mere fragments of truth, mostly based on emotion. Recall that the 'poor' think they have nothing to lose by soaking the rich with high taxes. The upper half of wage earners in the US pays 96% of the taxes, so this is essentially correct. The poor are not told that if the upper half goes down the lower half will suffer more. The poor are dependent upon those with skills and wealth.

Other voters are members of what the Romans called collegia. These were essentially trade guilds that offered politicians a solid block group of votes from their members. Julius Caesar and others tried to ban such factions, but they persist even today in the form of trade unions and other associations. The teachers unions are examples of such groups. The Teamsters were famous for abruptly shifting their votes to Richard Nixon from Democrats when he freed Jimmy Hoffa. They were paid for their votes.

Many voters are emotional and constantly confused by the rhetoric, lies, half-truths and blather that pollutes the airwaves just before election time, but retreat to the notions about what they can get for themselves based on who or what party they vote for. One emotional twinge may firmly set their voting patterns for a decade.

The best way to get the attention of voters is to mix emotion with pocketbook issues. I would suggest that a series of TV ads start off with pictures of Pelosi, Conyers and Rangel with the caption that these ghoulish parasites are going to tax you for as much as they can and will give the money to dope addicts, criminals, Communists, illegal aliens, terrorists, North Koreans and worse. This happens to be the truth given an analysis of their speeches about raising taxes and their intended federal spending. For a bit of nausea, I would also show Cindy Sheehan in one of her speeches calling terrorists ‘freedom fighters’ or other Hezboadulation exercises of the far left. These people are part of what I call the Hate America League. No act of degeneracy is too disgusting for liberal Democrats to hail as praiseworthy. Show all this in ads.

Since 1900 we cannot count the hundreds of millions of people who were apparently dumbfounded when the secret police showed up to line them up against a wall and gun them down and throw their carcasses into a ditch. People are not paying attention to their political needs.

For those of us in the US we need some stimulation and a trendy, emotion-driving pocketbook ad or slogan that shows the Democrats in the tender hands of the terrorists is needed. Don’t even question whether the Bolshevik posters of 1918 and beyond did not get the populace stimulated and ready to die for Lenin, Stalin and others. They worked just fine and got the clergy, capitalists and others deftly murdered with no regrets.