The ugliness is too much to bear, but the reality is that the proven strategies of the Democratic Party work, almost every time, especially given a sympathetic media and uninformed/apathetic electorate:
A) Massive wealth redistribution. The Dems want to use the "surplus" (why do we keep increasing national debt if we have this surplus anyway? I digress) to "shore up Social Security." This just takes the Ponzi scheme to the next level by using general tax revenues to buy senior votes. Bad, bad policy especially seeing as how the scheme was never viable in the first place. Good money after bad.
B) Another big entitlement, prescription meds, for (guess who?) the biggest identifiable voting block in the country, seniors. Nothing against seniors, but that money for your prescription med benefit has to come from somebody, usually a working person and very possibly someone who can't afford prescription meds for themselves or thier own family (kind of touchy on this one because with my impending move, I may well fall into this category). When you take money from one class of people who don't vote as a block, and redistribute it to another class of people because they'll vote for you if you do, you've just confirmed the absolute worst fears about Democracy.
Why don't they just stick a gun in my face and take my money that way? It'd be more honest.
C) Race and Class politics. The most hateful, negative, destructive, divisive political sentiment in America today. Whitey and the wealthy cause pain and suffering and poverty (Sharpton and a few others will throw 'the Jews' as oppressors in there for good measure, but don't expect it to make the news. I guess you can be an anti-semite if you've got the right credentials). The Dems can fix it for you. Works like gangbusters.
D) Women. I hate to lump them all together especially since I learned conservative values at my mamma's knee, but can't they see how "The Kiss" and Gore's earthtone sweaters are just manipulative pandering? Are women that easy to manipulate? The polls seem to indicate they are. God help us. (By the way, am I the only one who thinks that kiss looked like a kiss between two nervous, inexperienced 12 year olds? Have Tipper and Al ever kissed before? I assume they practiced and it still looked wooden.)
E) Unions. How stupid do they think we are? Witholding thier nod from Gore for as long as they can. Like we're gonna believe they'll ever give a Republican the nod? Puh-lease. Hopefully individual union members will see through the nonsense this year, but don't bet on it.
F) Stupidity and prosperity. The masses who think that Clinton/Gore created prosperity in this country. Why not keep going on this track? The stupidity of people who think that government gets money from somewhere other than the taxpayers.
G) And finally, the last reason that Gore is a shoe in, because Bush and the Republicans are playing thier game by thier rules. Gore has a prescription med plan that plays well to focus groups, so Bush has to jump in with his own; Gore has a plan to 'fix' Social Insecurity, so Bush has to jump in the hole after him. Makes Bush look like a loser without any direction. It becomes a question of not IF, but TO WHAT EXTENT, we're going to socialize whole sectors of the economy. Gore wins that one every time.
Look out, boys and girls, President Gore is coming to a country near you (and maybe bringing a Democratic House of Reps with him).
A) Massive wealth redistribution. The Dems want to use the "surplus" (why do we keep increasing national debt if we have this surplus anyway? I digress) to "shore up Social Security." This just takes the Ponzi scheme to the next level by using general tax revenues to buy senior votes. Bad, bad policy especially seeing as how the scheme was never viable in the first place. Good money after bad.
B) Another big entitlement, prescription meds, for (guess who?) the biggest identifiable voting block in the country, seniors. Nothing against seniors, but that money for your prescription med benefit has to come from somebody, usually a working person and very possibly someone who can't afford prescription meds for themselves or thier own family (kind of touchy on this one because with my impending move, I may well fall into this category). When you take money from one class of people who don't vote as a block, and redistribute it to another class of people because they'll vote for you if you do, you've just confirmed the absolute worst fears about Democracy.
Why don't they just stick a gun in my face and take my money that way? It'd be more honest.
C) Race and Class politics. The most hateful, negative, destructive, divisive political sentiment in America today. Whitey and the wealthy cause pain and suffering and poverty (Sharpton and a few others will throw 'the Jews' as oppressors in there for good measure, but don't expect it to make the news. I guess you can be an anti-semite if you've got the right credentials). The Dems can fix it for you. Works like gangbusters.
D) Women. I hate to lump them all together especially since I learned conservative values at my mamma's knee, but can't they see how "The Kiss" and Gore's earthtone sweaters are just manipulative pandering? Are women that easy to manipulate? The polls seem to indicate they are. God help us. (By the way, am I the only one who thinks that kiss looked like a kiss between two nervous, inexperienced 12 year olds? Have Tipper and Al ever kissed before? I assume they practiced and it still looked wooden.)
E) Unions. How stupid do they think we are? Witholding thier nod from Gore for as long as they can. Like we're gonna believe they'll ever give a Republican the nod? Puh-lease. Hopefully individual union members will see through the nonsense this year, but don't bet on it.
F) Stupidity and prosperity. The masses who think that Clinton/Gore created prosperity in this country. Why not keep going on this track? The stupidity of people who think that government gets money from somewhere other than the taxpayers.
G) And finally, the last reason that Gore is a shoe in, because Bush and the Republicans are playing thier game by thier rules. Gore has a prescription med plan that plays well to focus groups, so Bush has to jump in with his own; Gore has a plan to 'fix' Social Insecurity, so Bush has to jump in the hole after him. Makes Bush look like a loser without any direction. It becomes a question of not IF, but TO WHAT EXTENT, we're going to socialize whole sectors of the economy. Gore wins that one every time.
Look out, boys and girls, President Gore is coming to a country near you (and maybe bringing a Democratic House of Reps with him).
