According to NY Times today Mr. President is STILL thinking of sending more troops to Iraq. It will increase jobs, the report said. Well yes, if you count being enrolled in the army as jobs. If the entire country is controlled by the military, in fact, and the entire population recruited for total war why then-- that means everyone will have a job, doesn't it?
I've read an article last quarter about why Republicans win in politics or, more precisely, why the Republican party was able to defeat the Democratic party on two occasions when people clearly thought that no, it should be the other way around. I think it's called "Why Voters Like Value"--a fairly short article that, after you skim through it, sums the entire issue down to: Democrats loose because they are depressing.
It's psychological. (Are you really that surprised?) The Democrats insist on being open-minded, on listening to both sides. They insist on the lack of pre-drawn-lines and on the morally grey area that, when you come down to it, people are really uncomfortable with. Now the Republicans, on the other hand, can paint everything in black and white. It's either right or wrong; we are right and they are wrong. If you are not with us, you're against us, et cetera. People like to know they are right, they like to have a clear goal to work towards and an obvious enemy to fight. The Democrats, with their wishy-washy "maybe there's no absolute right or absolute wrong", just doesn't sell in an arrogantly self-assured, dangerously jaded yet strangely psychologically insecure nation. The Democratic platform makes people uncomfortable because it will make people question about where they stand and really--what IS Right and what is Wrong? People hate that. They hate the self-questioning because they do it enough, subconsciously, already, and they REALLY don't want to be forced to do it consciously.
No one WANTS to be wrong.
So Republicans.
When people choose they will make the decision that they believe will be more likely to make themselves feel good. It's in the moral fiber of the country, after all: "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." --which is fine, just fine.
All I ask is for the people, as they travel their paths in the pursuit of the happiness, to take a minute and ask themselves what is the PRICE of this happiness.
It's okay, most of them will come up with something, say that it's totally worth it, and get on with it anyway.
*No, despite of what you may think, this is not an Anti-Republican rant. This is an Anti-War rant.
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