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You have the Tea Party who wants a return to conservative values. You have the establishment Republicans who are all part of Team Rove. And then you have the Trumpster republicans, a new breed who are fed up with both of the other two.
Year after year, the RNC puts the Rove machine essentially in charge of the last two elections and what happened then? They grossly misjudged the motivations of the electorate to such a degree that it cost them. And there is no sign that they are changing that losing team over for a new one. People in power love power, even when they should realize it's time to step down if they are so calcified in their thinking that they are in danger of losing.
Dear Team Rove, here's what happened: The internet. People can and do check up on issues that matter to them in a nanosecond wherever they are, whenever they like. In fact, it's an addiction of sorts. Gone are the days of a duped public that only consumes the spoon-fed and cherry-picked "news" around the dinner table at 6:00 from the TV from owned talking heads.
Today the electorate is educated...far more than it use to be. And that's because of a giant Montessori project which is the internet. People select and learn in real time any topic that interests them. They have, essentially, a world library at their fingertips anywhere they are. A voter could be on a remote mountaintop and at the same time be researching issues and candidates.
Worse for the outdated Rove-machine, people are in constant, almost annoying contact with their peers. This is the "viral" syndrome you hear about. Even if the person themselves have not learned some new tidbit about an issue, if one of their friends has, they will learn about it almost as quickly as their friend did. This is social media's keen and sharp edge. And it is trouble brewing.
The Trumpsters are the personification of this new electorate. Gritty, educated enough to sniff out bullshit especially. And unwavering because they no longer rely on being spoon fed to research issues. They look them up themselves. So, pulling the wool over people's eyes is a thing of the past. And woe to the team who has their head in the sand about that key point.
And since Team Rove must have a modicum of intellect and young blood in its ranks, one has to wonder if they are instead purposefully derailing the GOP chances? I mean, the same blunder of miscalculating the base and the middle blocs of voters over and over and over and over? 2008, 2012, 2016...At some point you have to wonder if it's a blunder or by design....The real snakes head behind Team Rove of course is the Sith Lord himself: Dick Cheney. But Cheney's family members have some VERY hard left ideals. So.....? Do the math RNC...beware of who you take advice from..
Bottom line, you cannot take advice on strategy of how to rope in pragmatic people with a fundamental moral core from a wildly radical leftist masquerading as a conservative, who is bereft of morality to his foundation. That's the essence of the problem with the RNC. I read a bio on Dick Cheney once.
Year after year, the RNC puts the Rove machine essentially in charge of the last two elections and what happened then? They grossly misjudged the motivations of the electorate to such a degree that it cost them. And there is no sign that they are changing that losing team over for a new one. People in power love power, even when they should realize it's time to step down if they are so calcified in their thinking that they are in danger of losing.
Dear Team Rove, here's what happened: The internet. People can and do check up on issues that matter to them in a nanosecond wherever they are, whenever they like. In fact, it's an addiction of sorts. Gone are the days of a duped public that only consumes the spoon-fed and cherry-picked "news" around the dinner table at 6:00 from the TV from owned talking heads.
Today the electorate is educated...far more than it use to be. And that's because of a giant Montessori project which is the internet. People select and learn in real time any topic that interests them. They have, essentially, a world library at their fingertips anywhere they are. A voter could be on a remote mountaintop and at the same time be researching issues and candidates.
Worse for the outdated Rove-machine, people are in constant, almost annoying contact with their peers. This is the "viral" syndrome you hear about. Even if the person themselves have not learned some new tidbit about an issue, if one of their friends has, they will learn about it almost as quickly as their friend did. This is social media's keen and sharp edge. And it is trouble brewing.
The Trumpsters are the personification of this new electorate. Gritty, educated enough to sniff out bullshit especially. And unwavering because they no longer rely on being spoon fed to research issues. They look them up themselves. So, pulling the wool over people's eyes is a thing of the past. And woe to the team who has their head in the sand about that key point.
And since Team Rove must have a modicum of intellect and young blood in its ranks, one has to wonder if they are instead purposefully derailing the GOP chances? I mean, the same blunder of miscalculating the base and the middle blocs of voters over and over and over and over? 2008, 2012, 2016...At some point you have to wonder if it's a blunder or by design....The real snakes head behind Team Rove of course is the Sith Lord himself: Dick Cheney. But Cheney's family members have some VERY hard left ideals. So.....? Do the math RNC...beware of who you take advice from..
Bottom line, you cannot take advice on strategy of how to rope in pragmatic people with a fundamental moral core from a wildly radical leftist masquerading as a conservative, who is bereft of morality to his foundation. That's the essence of the problem with the RNC. I read a bio on Dick Cheney once.
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