Reply #59: Comments

[John Barrett]

JQC my reply.
Or do you mean the Democrats are going to have to steal votes from the votes the Repuiblicans are already stealing from the Democrats?

I hope not steal but agree that the Democrats may have won the last two Pres. elections. The Democrats need to pull votes from moderate Republicans and independents and develop issues that will allow that to happen.

What are your personal credentials for judging political saavy? Ever run for public office or been elected to public office? I'm just wondering how you arrive at your opinions.

We all have opinions. None are 100% correct 100% of the time. I'm happy with my internal track record. I don't have the temperament to run for office but I would enjoy being an advisor.

What is one issue of the "many issues" you mention that you belive the Democrats could make political hay on? And how do you belive they should go about making political hay on it?

One key overriding area is the blatant corporatization of America and its corrupting influence. This covers everything from outsourcing, use of illegal immigrants to squeeze US workers, CEOs with absurd and compensation packages entirely unrelated to risk and return to investors, removing pension plans, privatization of services and facilities and now federal land, lobbyists, privatization of military with administration buddies, corporate welfare from everything such as Wal-Mart receiving tax money for development to very profitiable oil companies that receive taxpayer subsidies. The list is endless yet the Democrat Party continues to let the far left define the party with issues that tend to divide.


My opinion is that the current state of media consolidation where 80% of all TV, radio, and press is in the hands 5 corporations makes it extremely iffy to make political hay on any issue - unless the powers-that-be decide it's in thier corporate interest to do so.

I agree 100% with you that consolidation of the media has been bad for America and good for politicians and those with influence. The media has been corporatized and could be placed into that over issue above of "Corporatization of America". Small business is good, big business is bad should be a core philosophy of the Democrat party which is in fact the opposite of the GOP.