Reply #24: The branding of the labels [View All]

[Pithy Cherub]

has become the prize rather than an action on behalf on Democracy. The branding is how the strategic vision is put into practice and who shall be the Gatekeeper. It is less about left or right rather than being placed on a spectrum between Elite Authoritarianism versus Liberal Individualism thus constantly replaying the Founding of the Nation in a modern era. As Nietzsche notes demonizing by calling a name is part of the process. It has become a useful Tool rather than doing the most important work of taking the most valuable resource, Time, to understand. Because the American culture is set up for speed, it accelerates the descent into marketing shorthand that becomes the bane of the American existence.

On another day this week, my response to a post of yours was about the lack of Courage in politicians. As Maya fervently says no other Virtue may be practiced without it. Corporations, everyday Americans and politicians keep trying to skip it because the risk is high and the price is too painful for failure to be borne. Because Rewards for other Virtues are more instantaneous, the risk produces cognitive dissonance in a candidates' supporters it is easier to eschew the Common Good values of Democracy and speak to the immediacy trifle of the Day. We have flawed public servants trying to find the lowest common denominator amongst low information voters attempting to collect as many votes as possible. An absence of Hope in the American consciousness makes it easier to accept the stated conditions which lead to an erosion of the Common Good.

The need is to find the Will of Purpose to DEMAND that political candidates adhere to the basic tenets of Freedom codified in the Constitution. That causes a craptastic problem as cleaning one's own end of the political spectrum, not for purity, but for a platform that represents the scalable spectrum that represent an ideological viewpoint is sausage messy. Because that moves so often, those who had the public applause are in their humanness loathe to vacate the stage when called upon to do so.