Robert Scheer: U.S. Elections Are for Suckers

[bhikkhu]

4. Expect that to be a big repug talking point next year

...as they reach desperately for anything to discourage our side from voting. "Poisoning the well", so to speak, is an old tactic.

Here's the message and marching orders I see:

Hate the government
Distrust the process
Emphasize how its all corruption and power-games
Minimize the actual role of government in life
"Attack them on their strengths" - the post office is bad, the roads are bad, the police are thugs, the schools are producing idiots, etc...

I would say I'm a Democrat because this is the party that takes the job of government seriously, and has a conception of what good government is. For the most part it is a matter of doing the best job, under difficult circumstances - difficult circumstances being all the obstruction from the other side, and the poisoning of the well (which affects both sides).