Posted on 02/03/2016 8:04:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When you were a rowdy teen, your parents were the Establishment. Now that you're a parent, what are you? The anti-establishment, cool parent? Not likely.
Rather, you're a grownup who tries to keep the peace in your discordant household; who tries to negotiate among self-interested, imperfect family members who have competing goods and goals; and who tries to instill a long-range vision for the future in your desire-ridden family who wants instant self-gratification.
Welcome to the Establishment. You're a bona fide member now.
Here's a defense of the amorphous, notional Establishment, as I see it, if it even exists in organized reality (hence the quotation marks).
1. The Establishment believes the Constitution says good government grinds slowly and finely.
What happens when government is divided? It grinds even more slowly and finely.
This frustrates and angers the anti-establishmentarians. Solution? Throw rocks at their own side?
The best way to break the gridlock is to stop angrily tilting at Establishment windmills and win the White House in 2016 by focusing on the DNC.
2. The Establishment sees that America is center-right, not hard right.
This has been said before, but let's take it in another direction. Let's imagine that twenty-five percent of the electorate self-identifies as liberal and thirty-three percent as conservative.
What about the forty-two percent? (We could break them down further, but let's not get complicated in a post like this.)
They wait and see. They're easily spooked. And the Establishment wisely knows a significant percentage of them always decide presidential elections.
The Grand Illusion, typically perpetrated by the anti-Establishment radio talkers as a class (with some exceptions): it is easier to drag the forty-two percent to the hard right than it is to bring them center-right.
Brute Reality, typically perpetrated by the Establishment: society doesn't work that way.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
‘The best way to break the gridlock is to stop angrily tilting at Establishment windmills ...’
Worked for Trump all the way up to November. Worked for Cruz too.
And frankly, the Establishment views Rubio as ‘scraping the barrel’ — their least favorite because he himself has anti-establishment tendencies.
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