Thank you for this thoughtful article.
The movie “War and Peace” poses the question: “Does History make the Man, or does Man Make the History?”
Below is a posting made earlier on another FR thread that explores this question. Enjoy.
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” - - - Happy talk, campaign promises and speaking slots at national conventions - - - - “
This quote from an article, listed below, by Dr. Larry J. Sabato illustrates that he is well suited to be a writer for Politico, the Magazine for shallow, left-wing, low information voters.
These writers pass themselves off as the “intelligentsia” of the 47 % who pay no Personal Federal Income Taxes.
IOW, they make a living as long as we keep on giving.
Larry J. makes a living by spading around in the surface layers that are rich in the manure of the words and antics of those who are in politics for the fun of it:
* Mrs. Bill “Benghazi” Clinton;
* Joe “Chains” Biden;
* John “Catchup” Kerry;
* John “Benghazi Coverup” Boehner;
* Harry “Do Nothing” Reid;
* “Son-of-a-Mitch” McConnell; and
* All loyal Obamacrat RINOs and Democrats.
It can never get to shallow for the manure-diggers and their megaphone employers at Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, Huff-Puff Post, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and, of course, the Clinton News Network, CNN.
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What Larry J. ignores is what is interesting. Listed below are a few topics as follows:
* Whereas Larry J. is a true believer in the school of thought that “The Man Makes the History,” the opposite is less easy to prove, but has many adherents, including yours truly.
* Larry J. gives the impression, IMHO of course, that an understanding of basic motivation factors are not necessary to predict election success or failure.
For example, Larry J. mentions “decades of partisan polarization,” and “smoke and mirror budgets,” but does not dig deeper through that shallow political manure layer to opine on the root causes of polarization and economic deception that motivate voters at a basic level.
Note: Here I make the assumption that one basic motivation factor for voters is that they “always vote their pocketbook.”
Ponder these questions:
* What if our polarization was directly related to the numerical value our total National Poverty Debt?
* Has our failure to punish politicians who have not been good stewards of our tax dollars done the following:
** weakened our desire to enforce the US Constitution;
** decreased our belief in making a profit by honest hard work; and
** acceptance of the permissive “boys-will-be-boys” attitude toward the politicians that we pay to Regulate us?
* Are we, the voters, the root cause of the political tyranny that now controls everything we do?
IOW, have we created the optimum conditions for us to become victims of tyranny?
It is always easy to point the finger of blame towards others, but notice how many fingers are pointing back at you - - - .
PING.