 cazzo1 says: 'I am what I am, damnit.' No matter how hard politicians try, they cannot fool the intelligent. The idea of a false liberal choice in the presidential election is not new, however, this test turns the qualitative into quantitative reasoning. In a statistical world, this conversion is basic but accurate and provides a solid explanation for what is recognized yet left widely unsaid. Right on, math. Politicians seem to have got away with fostering the image that they are there for the common good ( once they have been elected.) i.e. they are no longer answerable to the voters. They are now answerable directly to something else. Big business mainly, because that is where the bonus is. (The fall back point if they get chucked out.) Big business is conservative, so all politicians are conservative, unless they are downright fascists. Business is as business does but businessmen are not the politicians. Nor should they be. So what ought the politicians be doing instead? Advocating a strategy that reinforces policy, not politics for an upcoming election. I agree that business is conservative and that most politicians have a developed business persona, however, the context is skewed. Politicians do not govern solely for big business, the serve for re-election, as well. Realists, like ourselves, recognize that there is a constant struggle of whom to appease at what time and where. If this model were restructured around long-term achievement, not personal (political) progress, the downplay of unappealing issues might t... |
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