jb
Will it work. It already is.
Most folks are one lever thinkers. Politics is a bore for them and diggin for details is beyond what they are willing to commit in terms of time or interest, before pulling one lever in the polling booth.
That…is basically why we get what we get in terms of politicians. We call the tune, we pay the piper.
Most people have predilections or preconceived notions…but get their information fed to them (and thus, their opinions), like little baby birds. Regurgitated, pre-masticated facts…with bits chosen by someone else.
Anyone who likes to make up their own mind, issue by issue…needs facts, it’s oxygen to them. And facts are hard to find and even harder to come by without malfeasance attached by an information stream with no integrity left in it. It is now somehow ok to produce forged documents, photoshopped images, and blatant falsehoods as “news”. For a multi-lever thinker…that’s the ninth ring of hell. How can you make an informed decision when you can’t trust the facts you are being given? How could anyone?
We are fed a daily diet of distortion and misdirection…spin and specious lies. Now, go vote on that.
My hot button is the gang raped information stream. The far right holds no sway over me. I deplore the KKK and I have an instinct to champion the underdog. But I take my underdogs where I find them…and right now, the leftists in this country…and their army of Alinskyite bastards have stolen the truth and I want it back.
If that makes me a South Park Republican…so be it. I don’t put a label on my politics…because a label is limiting. If some call me a follower of “traditional liberalism” or a “libertarian”…that’s fine with me too. I’m not as interested in having a name attached to my opinions as I am in having facts upon which I can determine what those opinions might eventually become.
I believe the far right in this country are marginalized and toothless. The far left, however…have grabbed hold of the reins and pose a greater danger than we have ever faced. The own the “message” and the “message” is quickly becoming the “truth”…to those too uncommitted to bother to uncover the deceit.
The most important issue of our lifetimes is before us…and it isn’t abortion, it isn’t gay marriage, it isn’t Iran or Pakistan or North Korea, it isn’t Iraq and it isn’t even the economy. It’s who gets to own the truth. Leftists have stolen it and I want it back. Every other issue we decide…depends upon it.
