Militarily I think shock and awe means that the modern weaponry disables the ability of the enemy to command and control, to assess and react, to coordinate. The victim does not even know what happened to his assets, they simply vaporized. He cannot find out because his lines of communication are gone. His weapons, assets, and soldiers go unemployed and become useless to the victim. He becomes bewildered, operates at cross purposes and without any effective strategy, becomes demoralized and simply quits.
One can expect to see much the same in the oncoming election. Republicans are making a pitch across the board to the better angels of the People's nature. The Democrats are organizing cells, groups, unions, races, industries, sexual preferences, and classes and appealing to them in such ways as to make them utterly impervious to the voice of reason. We saw this in the last election and we think it is because of the race issue. We think that people abandoned a reasonable skepticism about Barak Obama's radicalism because they focused on race and wanted to rid themselves of white guilt. But what if that is not the only answer? What if the Democrats have succeeded in cobbling together a critical mass which operates pursuant to stimuli which cannot be touched by conservatism? For example, blacks would have voted for Barak Obama regardless of his politics. Can you conceive of a rational series of constitutional arguments which will appeal to the gay vote on their issue? How his reason ever had the slightest impact on arch feminists? Couple all this with profound anti-Christian bigotry and you have an electorate wide open to manipulation.
I expect to see community organization going on in South Carolina! If the rats have figured out the formula to slice and dice the electorate into subgroups and deliver a Scientology/multilevel marketing approach at the grassroots, the game might well be over. A computerized, poll driven, grass-roots campaign can do just exactly that each subgroup and individuals can be identified and approached by neighbors. I think that's exactly what the Obama folks are trying to do with their questionnaire right now-identify bellringers. All of this will be done with computer strokes until the moment the doorbell is pressed. We will not know what hit us, and so we will not know how to cope. Instinctively, conservatives will appeal to reason, which in this circumstance will have about as much palliative effect as invoking reason to control diarrhea.
