You'd Think Sports-Obsessed Yanks Would Reject *'s "Stay The Course" BS

[stopbush]

Americans are sports-obsessed. They know that every good athlete/team goes into a contest with a game plan in
hand. They also know that every great team/athlete knows to throw away the game plan when it isn't working. They
know that competent athletes can sense when their plan isn't working and will shake up their preconceptions and look
for a way to win.

The Rs say you shouldn't switch teams in the middle of a war, but sports teams trade players and fire managers
in the middle of the season all the time.

In the business world, changes to top management happen at the most-volatile times, not when things are relatively calm.

In people's personal lives, divorces usually happen when the wars are raging, not when things are going swimmingly.

So why do the Rs keep pushing the "stay the course" meme like it's something more than a lousy slogan?

I think it's because in their fantasy based world, they see their imaginary Lord staying the course with them as they bumble
through life, forgetting him as they fuck up again and again. But, he's there to take them back when they see the light. He stayed the course with them!

For me? Well, when I think of stay the course, I think of the last scene from Thelma & Louise.

Speaking of winning, why do sports fans trumpet bromides like "just win, baby," when that bromide hasn't produced a winning team in over 20 years?

[Lasher]

1. Junior hasn't had an original thought in his whole life.

"Stay the course" was a slogan Reagan used during his re-election campaign. We stayed the course and he ran us up on a reef. Same thing with Junior.

[teryang]

2. Stay the course is a madison avenue slogan that defies...

...the traditional cost benefit analysis in defense economics decision making. It is exactly the type of infantile and unprofessional approach top level defense decision makers are taught to abandon when assigned to policy making and defense resource allocation posts. In short it is just propaganda from a corporate owned corrupt regime. Implicit is the defective notion that defeat can be avoided if we just "stay the course" on a failed policy. One might also say, "when you're in a hole, keep digging."

The problem is that the government isn't run by professional decision makers and policy analysts. Despite all the hoopla about "policy analysts" and "think tanks" there are really very few. Those in government that speak out are muzzled or driven out. Most people touted as "policy analysts" today are little more than corporate hacks if not outright fascists, making claims on and dividing spoils for defense contractors, bankers, and the energy industry. Apart from this, most leadership spends their time inventing slogans and bogus issues to divert the mass mind while finding places to hide purloined revenues, payoffs and blood money. Their policy formulation is usually little more than a scheme for the next massive swindle, fraud, or war, from which their corporate cronies and they themselves will profit.

Tha latest thing in American financial newsletters for the rich is buying residences in foreign countries. The crooked elites have already exported the nation's capital, manufacturing, and economic prowess to other countries. Now they are planning their escape when diaster arrives. Implicit in this is the sense that investment in the US is a lost cause and that the need to emigrate for those who can afford it is more promising, and a prudent and wise "financial choice."