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January 26, 2004

Why Edwards is a real threat to Bush

Because the real swing voters in 2000 didn't shift because of policy. We've known at least since Reagan that presidential politics is about picking a guy that projects the image you want projected…who "sends the message" you want sent.

The real swing voters went for Bush because he promised to end the rancor in DC. To be a uniter rather than a divider.

Although I guess silencing different viewpoints could be considered a way of ending the ceaseless arguments.

Posted by P6 at January 26, 2004 12:38 PM
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I think it's like this: people like me really do not like to be uptight or consistantly negative, but OTOH there are some serious problems that are rapidly becoming seriously unmanageable. For example, urban decay makes larger and larger swathes of the private sector unattractive to investors and business startups. So eventually the government has to step in and contain the situation. It can't fix the problem; only business can, but the horrible state of public services in places like South Central Los Angeles makes otherpublic services that much costlier to deliver.

So your humble fan became shrill and strident, complaining about the future costs. My chief concern is that the people who live in these areas have unpleasant, squalid, unhealthy lives. But it's also true the problems become progressively worse, the enclaves of ungovernability grow (e.g., most of Mexico City), and merely surviving with the problem--to say nothing of palliating it, mitigating, or rolling it back--gets progressively more expensive.

There are many examples. But there is no country of long duration which has not experienced the silencing of dissenting voices. What happened? The problems the dissenters were complaining about became explosive and unmanageable, and boiled over. That's true, by the way, if the elites are somehow "progressive" (e.g., China, esp. during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution) or "conservative" (e.g., Argentina under the "Process" Junta)

Posted by James R MacLean at January 26, 2004 02:19 PM

James:

That link is all mangled. I'm assuming you wanted this page, or maybe a Google search.

Posted by P6 at January 26, 2004 06:07 PM