Hillary's Only Hope To Tame Worst Habits: A Real Primary Challenge - Preferably From Elizabeth Warren

[Savannahmann]

23. Imagine being in a fight with your worst enemy.

It's a cage match, to the death. Your opponent has spent the weeks leading up to the fight studying all available training film on you. He's been studying your sparing matches, and working his ass off to make sure he's ready for you.

You refuse to view any film on your opponent. It's available online, and you not only refuse to see it, but you fire and insult people who watch the films as traitors to your victory. Before the announced match, you were both pretty evenly matched, with your opponent a little stronger than you, and you were considered a little smarter.

Who wins? The answer almost certainly is, your opponent. Because Your opponent crafted his fight for you, while you crafted yours to the imaginary fight you hoped to have with them.

So what you ask? So what does this have to do with Politics? In 2014 Democrats were counting on the Republicans to make a mistake like in 2012 with the famous Real Rape quote. The Republicans instead focused on paying lip service to issues while the Democrats were sticking with their place holder campaign plan War on Women. Republicans studied the polling, realized that issues were what the people wanted to hear about, and talked about those issues. Democrats ignored the issues, planning instead on the winning strategy from 2012, wait for the Republicans to self destruct. Then on election day, the Democrats were astonished to see the Republicans take the Senate, and keep taking control with a four seat comfort zone. Ten seats in all after the runoff in Louisiana, ten invaluable seats that we could have won, if we had watched and learned our opponents obvious plans.

So the preparations for 2016 are on. We're training up. Once again, the Republicans are watching us, studying our moves, and planning on how to counter them. We are again refusing to even look at the opponent for fear that we'll see something we don't like. Once again we're going into the match hoping that the Republicans will oblige us and fight the way we wish they would, while they intend to fight us the way we're going to in reality. They learned from 2012, and we haven't learned from 2014 yet. The question is, will we learn?

I don't know. Einstein was asked about the difference between Genius and Stupidity. Einstein said that Genius has its limits.

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