I think it’s about infrastructure to some large extent. One can have ideas that resonate with most of their potential, ideological base — however, most Americans will never hear those ideas if one doesn’t have access to an infrastructure that can properly disseminate those ideas.
For example, If GW Bush had run on a Libertarian ticket, very few conservatives would have heard his message of tantalizing fear and macho warmongering.
Link above goes to Bush brochure I have that the Republican party mailed to their marks before his first presidential election.
I took a close look at the brochure back then before Bush was elected. Afterwards I said to my GF at the time, “If Bush gets elected, this clearly shows he’s going to take us into war in the Middle East based upon a repeat of Pearl Harbor.”
That’s why I saved the brochure. I wanted to see if it was a blueprint. Yep, it was.
I guess that resonated with 'merica and here we are today with mass deaths, trillions spent and ISIS.
Depends… If she ran on a Republican ticket, for example, I think plenty of progressives would avoid her. I mean, there’d be much more truth in advertising if she did that, but that would certainly work against her. Right now she gets to be a moderate Republican pandering to the left as a Democrat. I just hope that trickery stops working as well by 2016 for all our sakes.
We’re about to find out.
Sanders is pushing a mostly issues-driven campaign. Watch his interviews with the corporate media who keep attempting to derail him. He waves them off and gets back onto the topic of the issues even against their will. It’s his thing. It’s obvious the corporate media wants him to stop discussing the issues. So does Hillary Clinton and most of her minions, for that matter.
Are voters going to be about cult of personality yet again or someone who speaks about the issues and has a lengthy track record to back him up? I guess we’ll find out soon.
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your TV
I’m the Cult of Personality
I exploit you
Still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the Cult of Personality
Cult Of Personality — Living Colour
