[Common Tator]

Yet, as Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi recently said, Democrats will wait and revisit the guns “when the issue is ripe.”

This statement certainly shows that the house Democratic leader knows that first she must change public opinion and then and only then can she try to enact the law.

The Right constantly thinks that all they need do is elect the right people. Democrats understand that to make changes, the views of the American people must be changed to agree with their desires.

This is a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Those on this sight that scream at politicians don't have a clue about how our government works. It works like this. First, a good majority of voters must be for what ever you want to do. Once that is accomplished just sit back and watch it happen. People that agree with you will run for office. They will get elected because the voters agree with them. Then the elected politicians will enact or repeal the laws needed to gain voter approval for re-election.

Politicians will promise groups anything to get elected. But while in office they will only try to enact what a majority of the voters want. Pelosi just proved that. Most Democrats want gun control. Most Americans do not. Pelosi will not try to do what most Democrats want as long as most voters don't want it. Most Americans want free prescription drugs as part of Medicare. Many on the right do not want that. Since most voters want it, Bush and the Democrats will work for it and get it passed.

Those that control public opinion run this nation. They never have to hold an office to be in total control.

[templar]

Democrats understand that to make changes, the views of the American people must be changed to agree with their desires.

"First you must educate the people. then you must arm them.", -- Chairman Mao, quoted in the Little Red Book.

[esopman]

Bump for the commentator with uncommon common sense.

1. It is a curiosity that with all of the media bias on the gun issue noted by Lott, the Democrats have not materially changed either the public perception that the Second Amendment is basically OK or the legislative/electoral outcome (witness even MN putting through concealed carry.)

Can we assume then that the controllers...
"Those that control public opinion run this nation."
...are not comprised of the elite media on this issue?

2. I find this post encouraging in that the elites are now bucking a measurable headwind of internet-informed folks (a minority, clearly), talk-radio informed folks (also still a minority) and an administration in DC which is anathema to the Left (but hardly a 'Constitutional' administration). The confluence of these factors is apparently diminishing the elite media considerably - along with their own internal diseases, e.g. the Jayson Blair effect.

3. Democrats waiting until 'the issue is ripe' betray the fact that they are merely an opportunistic infection of the body politic. They are praying for the economy to tank, a gun disaster larger than Columbine, etc. That will be their lever to push opinion their way. The bigger the calamity, the bigger the lever. Goebbels would love it. Absent a calamity, they are in deep weeds. Even Hillary Regina will prove unmarketable and unelectable if this continues. (I pray).

[philman_36]

Those that control public opinion run this nation. They never have to hold an office to be in total control.
And the mantra is always...work within the system to change the laws.
Given your most astute depiction of today's political world I've got one question (not necessarily for you)...
How the hell is someone supposed to work within the system to "change the laws" when "that simple task" will never work.
"Change the laws" my foot! Some people just don't get it.