All of this navel gazing by Democrats is rather tedious.....
But consider:
The Republican "secret weapons" are:
1. The Civil War of 1861-65. (Actually the southern civil war against the north started in 1776, and goes on even today)
2. Fox News and AM Radio, and the packaging of political propaganda as "news."
3. A willingness to lie repeatedly, and to blatantly exploit issues that appeal to less intelligent voters, like racism and religion and greed.
Where the America's "old media" failed was in trying to compete with the new conservative media outlets. The truth is that the conservative Bubba Agenda of hate and fear and greed is very, very compelling to most viewers.
Especially, when wrapped in the new false religiousity.Most Bubba Republicans actually believe that Jesus wanted them to re-elect Bush in 2004!
You simply can not have a rational political discussion on these terms.
And please remember, these people aren't just faking their religious beliefs, like some of us enlightened liberals have to do on occasion to placate the less informed. These Bubba voters are true believers! Jesus is real for them. God is telling them what to do next.
Democrats simply can not compete with Republican hate, fear and greed by appealing to fairness and equality!
Never underestimate the role of public ignorance in a democracy. The Founding Fathers didn't in 1789; they knew what would happen if you empower the ignorant.
Unless and until the Liberal North can get the Bubba South to vote their economic issues, and not their social issues....nothing Democrats can do will change things.
But, despair not, the Democrats have a "secret weapon" too....
$3 Gas!
.....it's coming and sooner than many people think.
But consider:
The Republican "secret weapons" are:
1. The Civil War of 1861-65. (Actually the southern civil war against the north started in 1776, and goes on even today)
2. Fox News and AM Radio, and the packaging of political propaganda as "news."
3. A willingness to lie repeatedly, and to blatantly exploit issues that appeal to less intelligent voters, like racism and religion and greed.
Where the America's "old media" failed was in trying to compete with the new conservative media outlets. The truth is that the conservative Bubba Agenda of hate and fear and greed is very, very compelling to most viewers.
Especially, when wrapped in the new false religiousity.Most Bubba Republicans actually believe that Jesus wanted them to re-elect Bush in 2004!
You simply can not have a rational political discussion on these terms.
And please remember, these people aren't just faking their religious beliefs, like some of us enlightened liberals have to do on occasion to placate the less informed. These Bubba voters are true believers! Jesus is real for them. God is telling them what to do next.
Democrats simply can not compete with Republican hate, fear and greed by appealing to fairness and equality!
Never underestimate the role of public ignorance in a democracy. The Founding Fathers didn't in 1789; they knew what would happen if you empower the ignorant.
Unless and until the Liberal North can get the Bubba South to vote their economic issues, and not their social issues....nothing Democrats can do will change things.
But, despair not, the Democrats have a "secret weapon" too....
$3 Gas!
.....it's coming and sooner than many people think.
