i just replied to another person here and almost have to say the same thing again, alas, that I can only BELIEVE and HOPE that we get at least one capable, articulate candidate who explains well how working (job or small biz venture) can provide people with much better lives than just collecting the dole
I believe that SOME of the socalled “takers” will agree, if the message is delivered well to their attention
we only need to win over SOME of those votes!
Now then, if my hope is misplaced, or if it is indeed correct that “this is no longer the country of Reagan” and I’m living in the past, then you’re undoubtably correct.
I just hope that we are given the opportunity of a candidate who will get out there and really campaign vigorously, and articulate well. Even if only to test whether my hopes have any chance, or if I’m hopelessly naive.
I feel deprived, disappointed, and yes even discouraged... in that we haven’t had a good candidate articulating things at all well, for years and years....
Our 20%+ real unemployment rate isn’t the result of too good a dole. We have actual, systemic unemployment, with 53% of college graduates in recent years not having employment of any kind. That, BTW, is Greek type unemployment for youth in this country ~ so laugh about it all you want ~ just a matter of time until they self organize and the fires start.
>>I just hope that we are given the opportunity of a candidate who will get out there and really campaign vigorously, and articulate well.
What would their message be to the welfare class? They may be Takers, but they see it differently. They see themselves as some oppressed underclass who never got a break. Yeah, its all a lie fed to them by their Democrat masters, but that’s their perception and therefore their reality.
Even the ones who break out and get a job usually work for less than $10/hr as the people on our side tell them that labor is an expense and all profits need to go to the owner/shareholders. We tell the workers that it is our goal to make them work for the least amount of money that we can possibly pay and still get them to return to work tomorrow.
Meanwhile, on the Democrat Plantation, they are told that they have value as human beings just for existing and “here’s a check, an EBT card, free healthcare, a Pell Grant, and an Obamaphone to prove it.”
Our side tells them that they are an expense that cuts into the bottom line and the other side tells them that they are valuable just because they alive. How do we beat that message with just words?