Good morning, Frank! Frank Reichert wrote:
> This cesspool was created by both the Democrats and Republicans. > Certainly there are other choices around, they just aren't heard. > Largely by design. At the local level, I can't say that. I was > given pretty good coverage most of the time, and I still lost > horribly. > > So. The status quo continues. At least for now. A number of years ago, on a quiet afternoon in June I believe it was, you, Roger Erdman and I held a free-wheeling discussion in these hallowed halls about the perceived "dumbing down of America", which the three of us all felt was taking place all around us, and at that time, we were openly speculating about the impact it would have on our political infrastructures. I submit that the discussion we once held has come full round, and that other than a minority of Americans who still hold college degrees, the dumbing down of Americans has more or less taken place as we once foresaw that it would. The net result is that the majority of Americans no longer truly look at the issues or even the candidates, for the most part. We have become a nation misled, and in the words of our founders, a nation not worthy of the freedoms we still possess. In a time of history when "packaging", in the form of public relations and big war chests filled with political contributions, rather than substance and acumen, count more for the voters than anything else, even the venerable old Harry Truman would have a difficult time being elected President against the likes of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, in my opinion. Is this a tentative swing of the pendulum, where having swung so far to the politically conservative side, we are sooner or later bound to swing back to the liberal policies of the past? Or will sanity, in the form of Libertarian thought, finally be heard in the national airwaves, as America begins to search its own past to find a solution? However, we need to be building war chests and carefully assessing candidates to find ways to create good public relations schemes, for that is the watchword of this generation, it seems. With the success of the dumbing down of America, selling a political party on the basis of logic and well-defined goals will not work in America anymore. Libertarians need glitzy cheap "gadgets", and deep war chests to be elected to public office, now more than ever. Dave -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004 Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net Fortune Random Thought For the Minute Ego sum ens omnipotens. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
