Reply #156: I Think... [View All]

[datavg]

...the reason we're seeing this kind of behavior from so many of the candidates is that research staff and analysts are telling them they have to win something significant in the South if they truly want to become President of the United States. This is why Edwards says Hillary is unelectable. You can't sell gay rights and feminism and abortion to someone who drives his pickup to Sunday services at the local Evangelical church. You can't!!

It doesn't matter what the GLBT community or the feminists or the pro-choicers or even the unions think. Look at what Bill Clinton did to organized labor by signing NAFTA! These people have nowhere else to go! That's one of the dark, ugly secrets of Democratic politics. Ellie Smeal can stand on as many stages as she wants to, crying and moaning like a baby. I remember John Sweeney standing in the bed of someone's pickup at a labor rally, screaming about lack of support from a sitting president who most of his members probably voted for! No one gives a shit! Hillary doesn't give a shit. Obama obviously doesn't give a shit. I heard some talk today about Wesley Clark being Hillary's running mate, and I can assure you he doesn't give a shit. I know it for a fact.

I sat in a 400-level Political Science course at the University of Akron in the Spring of 1992, taught by the head of the department at that time, and heard him with my own ears say the Democrats only win when the gay lobby keeps its mouth shut and stays below the radar with all the rallies and wild costumes and marches. I heard it! I was there! (I've also heard activist Democrats here in Santa Clarita tell me the same thing, off the record.) And this guy is a southern Democrat from way back...got his Ph.D. at Florida many years ago. If I gave you his name, your hair would stand on end. He's retired now (and also happens to be a pilot) but he remains a widely known and respected authority on Survey Research in the United States. His course was always a weed out for Political Science majors at that university.

I honestly believe many progressives will leave the United States in the next ten years. Either that, or the few of them with family incomes above $150,000 per year will move either to the San Francisco Bay area or New England. Those two places are really the last US metropolitan areas which remain friendly to progressives. You could also add Santa Monica, California to that list, depending on what you do for a living.

Hillary is gonna take care of Hillary. If the Clinton years didn't tell you that, nothing will.

Do you know who really controls our government? The Federal Reserve Bank. And, the Federal Reserve Bank is nothing more than a front for foreign multinational corporations. It's not even a government agency! The damn thing isn't even incorporated here!

It's been this way since the early 20th century. And you're not gonna change it.

Finally, because of everything I've said above, I suspect it's secession time for some of the states in the interior northeast and possibly Washington/Oregon. These places don't have much in common with middle America anymore and eventually, their populations are going to get sick of taxation without representation.