Do "Squabblers", "Arm Wavers", and "Screamers" elect candidates?
You provide an event, they come!
Anything that’s a rally or demonstration, they come!
There is automatic “celebrity” attention!
They depend on “others” to create events to go to. (They have no plans of their own!)
It is not a “matter of approval” …. It’s a matter of activity! … (Remember, they have no plans of their own!)
What do screams and the waving of arms denote?
They denote that "they are there"! They denote whatever is on their mind at the time. They denote “celebrity” recognition. They denote the “general” recognition of whatever the subject is of the demonstration !
There is no serious effort to understand, no serious effort to find a “successful alternative”! …(just screams and a waving of arms)
To draw any conclusions from this array of emotions is to draw a wrong “conclusion”. This is raw emotion, nothing more!
Does American policy come from these events?
Who attends these events other than the paid followers? (Is this a young versus older issue?)
Are we now at an impasse where the intellectual power is opposed to the rhetorical “change” crowd? Is the rhetoric of change without “audit”, without the “money”, without the “future” and without the present “strength of the national economy”. Little is said about what to do. Much is said about “more” and “better”!... “more” diplomacy, “better” economy!... (Ugh!)
Nowhere is “How do you do it?”!
The older generation has had a chance to see some really “bad” people. People who you couldn’t talk to. People you couldn’t reason with. People who recognized pure rhetoric for what it is… (a paper tiger!) But the younger generation has the ideas that you can talk to anyone! Anyone can change!
The older generation has seen all this before!
The younger generation hasn’t had the time on the earth to experience this! The younger generation thinks that rhetoric and reason will talk their way out of it!... “Experience” versus “Rhetoric”, “Change” versus Experience, “Bad” people versus people from our own environment…..
These are the things that the “older” generation has seen before!
That is to say, that what we presently have is perfect!
On the contrary….the older generation says that the alternative (more undefined “change” and more “rhetoric”) will NOT bring America to its perfection but it is the better of two ideas.
This is the root question! ….. This is what the election is all about!!
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