Reply #49: Don't confuse winning with leading and governing [View All]

[pierle]

Maybe the biggest conundrum about democracy is that it is about the Individual. The truth is a party of one can't make it, until it convinces enough people to become a party of the plurality or majority. However, one council person in a city can change the town from Democratic to Republican in its policies.

Though the vote challenges that are starting to gain steam, they won't change the result or one fact that no one wants to discuss, namely that this country is evenly divided (with a few fence sitters) and the Dubya camp had more money to play politics. Playing politics requires strategery (love that SNL word), but does nothing for the people: the individual, who both sides have to play as part of the game.

Trying to say that areas of the country or the states or the counties don't have overriding dominating politics is like saying the all Scandinavian countries are the same. There is nothing artificial about the designations of blue and red.

Corporate media polling punditry aside, the present national conflict is the big rich guys (or the big rich guys wannabes or supporters) vs the deep-down-everyone-is-in-the-same-human-boat folks. Trying to deny that reality on the real politik game board is to lose the game.

As the Chickenhawks, who can run a race like no one since Boss Tweed, have to deal with reality, not elections, the purple individuals (frankly most of us {I support the NRA and the EPA}) will need the security factor of being like others, otherwise known as a political party, designated by colors.

Yes, indeed we lost this one, but that doesn't mean it is time to worry about our changing our colors. Whether we like it or not those colors will be there.