Feb 05 2010
My Brain Feels Aflutter with Glee
I have just experienced an epiphany.
Read and learn (this is a short rant).
If people vote against their own interests…it is because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best.
There is nothing voters hate more than having things explained to them as though they were idiots.
It’s hard not to take that last sentence and make an ironical comment, but I’m going to start practicing right now by saying, “Okay, then how SHOULD I explain things?”
Here is the answer.
As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing.
Okay, now I get it.
Try writing a fiction book with the goal being “to sell well” and you will get it, too. Warning - it’s not as easy as it looks. I always been in awe of writers who can string words together that transform into several hundred pages of pearls, now I think they have genius perched upon their shoulder everywhere they go.
“Obama’s administration made a tremendous mistake by not immediately branding the economic collapse that we had just had as the Republicans’ Depression…“
What have I been calling it for the last year and a half? That’s right. “The Second Great Republican Depression”.
Reverse revolutionThe Republicans have learnt how to stoke up resentment against the patronising liberal elite…The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.
More irony! And a new-found understanding that in order to get through to some of these people, we MUST stop talking intellectual drivel (except amongst ourselves) and START giving these people ACTION verbs. It literally is just like writing fiction. Most fiction in our culture is “conservative” in the sense that most plots serve to restore or maintain order. Conservatives instinctively get that, while Liberals / Progressives get stuck in exasperation at how Americans can be so stuck in their ways that don’t work any more.
Ideas on how to do this? I’m open to them. For now, I’m going to start practicing the skill of fiction crafting in my verbal interactions. Anybody care to join me?
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Notice that it’s from the BBC News (not anything Rupert Murdoch owns).
By the way, please enjoy my new siggie (thanks Darlene). If there was ever a quote to fit me like a glove, this one is it. Lucky you, who are loved enough by me to receive my regular rants. 
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“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure, I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
~Marilyn Monroe
2 responses so far
I think that, more than anything, the partisan political lockup in Washington since 1992 has created the teabaggers, and is what got Obama elected.
Folks want Congress to legislate. They want to see things get done.
Some of the big discontented mass of voters can’t express this frustration, and others fall into thinking they are Big Advisors, where their thoughts and opinions count for far more than they actually do.
Both parties are at fault here, and have been, for far too long. The result is a serious politicization of the populace- people don’t necessarily vote heavily, but they sure are quick to take sides and sling mud. The country seems to be operating on the principle of He Who Hollers Loudest Wins.
It has to change. Washington needs to get control of itself and go to work doing the jobs they were all hired to do.
boomer, you were the lone voice of patience when all of us liberals were pissed at the blue dog Minnick. What say you about the current tide of “anti-liberalism, anti-Obama” that some of us see? Are you worried about the mid term elections, this year?