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Hence the mud flying from right to left.
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When one takes an indefensible position, mudslinging is about all one can do to support one's stand.
Unfortunately, the liberals are also following the game plan.
We are reactive instead of proactive. We fail to elect liberal politicians because the last Democratic (though more centralist than liberal) president slept around and questioned the meaning of "is". We don't speak out soon enough or loud enough.
It surprised me to see that there are 3 pro-war posters here, 7 anti-war, and 2 trying very hard not to express an opinion. I don't know about you, but my perception before actually counting (Counting? Geez, I gotta get a life!) was that it was the reverse. Likewise, war-related posts (I wish people would stop posting about music!
) run 9 pro- to 15 anti-. I guess mudslinging works.
Many are bullied into not speaking out at all by the aforementionned mudslinging. I've personally been guilty of that. I wanted to post that Goering quote from the start, but didn't want to get in the middle of it. But our politicians have also been bullied into silence: The Democratic party has moved to the center where it's safe.
It's generally accepted that conservatives are more likely to vote than liberals. With the last election having been nearly 50/50 (at least in the electoral college) and with neither party having had an advantage of more than a small percentage in Congress, it's clear that if liberals were as good as conservatives at getting out the vote, the outcome would have been quite different.
Again, in this thread it's 3 to 7. 70%. A landslide. Sample size is infinitesimal, AM listener demographics are likely left-of-center, my interpretation and count of posts might be wrong, and pro- vs. anti-war is an imperfect predictor of political preference. But if it's anywhere
near representative of the country, our elections should not be as close as they are.
There was a time when it wasn't like this, but these things run in waves. A silver lining of this war would be if it galvanized liberals into proactivity for the next few decades. Including me. Maybe a 3rd party if that can ever really happen again. Here's hoping.