And yet Anthony Weiner is a viable candidate today? I don't accept your conclusion on Palin. If she runs, people will listen, even if they are just hoping for an entertaining Tina Fey comment. If she runs, she will be far more seasoned in 2916 than in 2008. If she runs, we will have a far greater need for a conservative to fix the terrible mess in DC than we had in 2008. If she runs, her children will be eight years older, so she will be better able to balance family and campaign/job. Whether she will run though depends on us - would we rather support her or settle for Christie/Rubio/Bush as the McCain/Romney of 2016?
If we've learned anything from the last two elections it's that the VOTING POPULATION has CHANGED. They will vote for anyone Liberal with handouts and promises of more entitlements to come. A Republican is seen as a greedy, cigar-chomping or rifle holding Capitalist.
We are in a quandary because the public is misinformed and ignorant. Nobody wants to hear somebody like Palin draw up economic plans and chart the future for the recovery of this nation. Who cares about facts, trends, issues, policy, direction, analyses? People seem to want popular, reality TV shows, relatively cheap electronic gadgets and fashion. To hell with difficult subject matter for an informed public to make sound decisions, (which is what the Republicans try to spell out).
When a Republican calls for a “return to values that made this country great”, many voters see this as a racist ideology set up by (as they like to call them) dead White men.
Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Tom Paine, De Tocqueville?? Who is learning what they used to call “Civics”? Who's learning History?
I pray you are right, ooops, I even said “pray”, will that get me into trouble with the crowd?
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To AlexW: Your referring to Republicans as Repugs looks to me like that you are a troll
If she runs, people will listen, even if they are just hoping for an entertaining Tina Fey comment.
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*People* may listen, but they will not hear what you think they will.
The first time around, even established GOP women wouldn’t support her.
Weiner is a manufactured candidate. He may even lose, but will be touted as “the former Mayoral candidate” for as long as it takes for him to become rehabilitated. He is viable because TPTB say he is viable. And the same PTB say Palin isn’t. And people nod in agreement and return to their individual lives.
While the recent SCOTUS ruling bodes very well for voter ID in the affected states, the problem is that the supporters of the progs control enough states via their overwhelming presence in both large cities and university towns. Public service union members can out-organize any effort to change the regime, although the figurehead will change.
A sizable number of conservatives will simply not vote. How many *conservative saviors* have we seen in the past 10 years who use us and then turn on us the moment they acquire some power?
There will not be a revolution. Even if 30% actively resisted, the mechanisms exist to neutralize them one-by-one and as a group. Media for the high-profile ones and the tried-and-true whisper campaigns and marginalization that is brought to bear on the smaller fry.
I have watched mid-level small business people who tried to campaign forcefully against the regime become mired in government audits that have no other purpose than to tie up their funds and their time until the moment for action passes. People become exhausted and simply keep their opinions to themselves.
The modern incarnation of the USA will continue, possibly for several decades. It is no longer the America we grew up with and the majority of the younger generations don’t care or are outright gleeful at that prospect. How can anything collapse when, on one hand, people complain of cost inflation and wage deflation and on the other hand think nothing of owning a latest generation smartphone and a laptop and a PDA, all with unlimited texting and email and internet and the ability to download all the music and video they can absorb? Housing, food, education and in some places, transport are all subsidized by the regime. People essentially work for disposable income and spend it on electronics and trendy branded overprices clothing. They find the money for expensive concert tickets and sports events. As far as they are concerned, there is no problem, so all this will continue. Our fiat is strong enough on a comparable basis to continue. The world invests in our stock market, which goes up even when the falsified GDP goes down. We control a lot of the world’s gold and tell anyone who wants theirs repatriated that we’ll get back to them on that. Just what is going to be allowed to trigger a real collapse that the populace will actually experience? We can count on the media to trumpet even a real collapse as somehow positive enough for the majority of proles that it will not dampen their enthusiasm. They will gladly exchange current comfort for everything demanded of them in return.
And just to make sure that the entity called America continues to remain in thrall, the governing authorities are importing a new population guaranteed to support them at least until those who remember the Republic are drooling or dead.
Call it the USZ for United States of Zombies.