at selling a politics of seeking out the very center of where we already are, to the very couch where we've been sitting all this time, as an exciting, revolutionary journey into the unknown.
shamanism 101...
what people want to believe is greater than what they see. his rhetoric was calibrated with perfection, milking history, lincolnism, humanist idealism, and a pinch of preacherman, with a disarming, aw-shucks grin, couched in very studiedly spontaneous post-cool body language.
brand new bottle, same old wine?
we overlooked the cult of personality, because the goals seemed worthy, if they aren't followed through all the love will backfire.
but he will be a hero no matter, and retire with great wealth, scribing some well-written memoirs about how he tried to take on the status quo with a pebble in his hand, and failed because people went back to sleep once he got elected, or believed the middle of the middle of the middle was a better place, instead of being hit by traffic from both sides of the road.
people-pleaser... perhaps if he had had better advisors... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I wonder if the regular apathy, after a year-long road show, has put the eleventh-hour lefties back to sleep. Some took up to 7 years to wake up, deep in debt, losing jobs and in a mounting economic depression, with third world economic conditions in many cities around the country. In a semi-lucid state people fell for the mirage, forgetting an election is only choosing the best of the worst and not another instant solution.
A lot of people are forced to mind their urgent needs, and/or think political activism is only for the road shows, but at least the practice of internet discourse has grown exponentially this decade and it should be a positive lasting effect.
It happens 'everywhere' in stages and I can see it in the Spanish socialist party right now, which seems to me inattentive and blinded by gurus, if not dormant. The PP here could qualify as a divided, floating corpse, but their machinery and chorus never stops, while united left, IU, which has high activism on the net, can't win for losing due to their internal divisions. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
while united left, IU, which has high activism on the net, can't win for losing due to their internal divisions.
ditto italy, the differences between franceschini and di pietro are minor, it appears, yet they have to have two separate parties, it's insane!
whereas berlu and bossi have lots of differences, yet unite effectively when it comes to keeping a hold on the levers of power, their ideals mainly revolve around victimising others, so they have strong agreement on that...
it seems like leftist platforms tend to be more like vapourware. big on noble wishes, petty on policies. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
