Innuendo, and now outright lies and directed vulgar insults can be used when you have no proactive agenda of your own to run on. The opportunities to advance that the middle class once had have been diminished, almost to the vanishing point, by the (supply-side economics) redistribution of wealth to the 1% … and those that point that out are called envious. The poor are called lazy and the immigrants are called job thieves. Decades have passed, for either or both parties to alter the course, but they have not, They have been focusing on reelection, acquiring personal wealth, taking care of the needs of their sponsors, and tossing a few crumbs at their base while ignoring the common good of the majority. Karl Rove and Lee Atwater have shown, quite dramatically, that you can win with dirty tricks and alt-realities. Nunes seems to be heading in that direction also. As long as the majority of eligible voters say home, (about 15% don’t even register) the extremists can run and win as their 25-30% bases buy into the propaganda and vote reliably.
Innuendo, and now outright lies and directed vulgar insults can be used when you have no proactive agenda of your own to run on. The opportunities to advance that the middle class once had have been diminished, almost to the vanishing point, by the (supply-side economics) redistribution of wealth to the 1% … and those that point that out are called envious. The poor are called lazy and the immigrants are called job thieves. Decades have passed, for either or both parties to alter the course, but they have not, They have been focusing on reelection, acquiring personal wealth, taking care of the needs of their sponsors, and tossing a few crumbs at their base while ignoring the common good of the majority. Karl Rove and Lee Atwater have shown, quite dramatically, that you can win with dirty tricks and alt-realities. Nunes seems to be heading in that direction also. As long as the majority of eligible voters say home, (about 15% don’t even register) the extremists can run and win as their 25-30% bases buy into the propaganda and vote reliably.