Posted on 06/25/2014 9:09:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
lections are won by demographics. No soup company blindly dumps cans of its newest "Turkey Coconut Bouillon with Nutmeg and Omega 3" in Aisle 6 of the supermarket without testing to see what demographics such a hideous concoction might appeal to. Will the product appeal to lesbian single mothers, divorced Asian firefighters or eccentric Latvian millionaires? Politics is no different.
A political party has its base, definable groups who groove to its message, who eat up the red meat that its candidates toss their way. It has the demographic groups which will always vote for it and those who might swing its way. It knows them by race, gender, age, class, sexuality, home ownership and a thousand other statistical slices of the pie. It has those numbers broken down by states, cities and neighborhoods so that it has a good estimate of its chances in a given place and time based on the demographics of the people who live there.
This kind of information is helpful for winning elections-- but showing up to play the electoral hand you're dealt is for suckers. And by suckers, I mean conservative parties.
Breaking down the demographics is like looking at the cards in your hand. Once you've done that, the only remaining variable in a static game are your opponent's cards. With election demographics, players can see all the cards everyone has. That makes the game static. Hands will inevitably be won or lost... unless you can draw some new cards.
The most obvious way to play the demographic game of thrones is with gerrymandered districts. A gerrymandered district is shaped to include a majority of the winning demographic leading to a nearly automatic victory for the party. It's the political equivalent of stacking the deck.
Neaqr the end of the Roman Empire the people in power used simular tactics to bypass the growing citizen dis-satisfaction with their rulers....
How the left wins?
Well, when you nominate both the Democrat and Republican candidate, it is pretty hard to lose.
they are also experts at herding the sheople through social psychology. I learned a lot in that class.
I keep pimping “The Language of the 3rd Reich” by Victor Klemperer. In the book Klemperer lays out how the nazis manipulated the German Language as a means of manipulating society.
We see the same every time the left tries to change or eliminate a word from the English language. Illegal aliens became illegal immigrants and now they try to ban the use of the word “illegal”. Look at what they’ve done to the word “Militia”. It used to denote honor, duty, and patriotism but now most people think anti government, racist, and violent.
Well said. Which is why McDaniel should somehow run in the general. Right now it's a Dem or a Dem.
Today the 10th Circuit agreed that the word "Marriage" doesn't mean between a man and a woman but rather between two "persons".
This is of course a complete re-definition of the word, which has never meant that in common usage for Oh, about the last 12000 years.
And when your base smartens up and demands change you just import 20 million new members to your base and there you go.
The money quote:
“To win the future, the Left doesn’t have to win every election; all it has to do is keep changing the demographics until either the right cannot have any hope of winning any more or until the right is so far left that there no longer is anything that can be described as an opposition.”
Speaking of Latvians, the other day a Latvian tennis player was asked whether they should have umpires in the game. He said "no" and tried to explain why. Then he stopped and took it back...he had just realized they had asked about umpires. He thought they had asked about vampires.
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