Things Are Not What Some Believe

It is amazing to watch young folk these days speak to political issues as if they have any idea what they are talking about yet are utterly clueless about that which they speak. It is a center-right country yet they actually believe the exact opposite based on what the president and the news media teach them. Recent Rasmussen polling shows that 35.4% people identified as Republican while 34.0% Democrat and 30.5% unaffiliated. The republicans hold significant majorities of state legislatures and governorships. Democrats can not even get elected without pretending to be more conservative than the republican they are running against and just looking at the recent history of presidential elections this point is abundantly clear. 1980-Reagan defeated Carter (Carter was liberal). 1984-Regan defeated Mondale (Mondale was too stupid to pretend he was not a liberal). 1988-Bush HW defeated Dukakis (also too stupid to pretend he was not a liberal and looked bad in an army helmet). 1992-Clinton defeated Bush HW by pretending to be more conservative than Bush and only because Perot siphoned off a huge chunk of the Republican vote but mostly because Bush was too liberal. 1996-Clinton defeated Dole because every liberal idea Clinton attempted to inflict on the country enraged the electorate so much they threw every democrat out of the house and senate first chance they got at the mid-term elections and replaced them with republicans, then Clinton took a drastic right-turn becoming more right-wing than David Duke and squeaked out a victory over Dole who was too liberal for most Republicans and had little chance of winning anyway. 2000-Bush W beat Gore because they believed Bush to be further right than Gore. 2004-Bush beat Kerry for same reason as defeating Gore. 2008-Obama defeated McCain because McCain is a liberal and Obama pretended to be more conservative than McCain. 2012-Obama defeated Romney mostly for same reason he defeated McCain. This all demonstrates that things are much different than many, mostly young folk, seem to think. The country will in all probability elect a Republican president next time, possibly even a very conservative one, and this will apparently come as a major shock to those that for some odd reason live in the moment and believe things other people of like mind tell them. cjpost