Um, this has more to do with 20+ years of Third Way Dems appeasing real crazies,

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134. First Way. First Cause.

You shall know them by their words and by their actions.

High principles work. But you simply must adhere to them. You must speak them and act on them.

Polluting them with lower principles results in, well, lower results.

If Democrats could know convincingly that acting from higher principles, as witnessed in President Obama's speech in Maryland today, October 3, 2013, would resonate resoundingly with the electorate and get them electorate, then we'd really have something.

Till then, the electorate hears plenty of wrong ideas and principles. They are on Rush Limpballs and all other right-wing talk shows. They are largely prevalent in the money-stream media. This parade of crappy ideas that simply don't work was started under the regime of Ronald Raygun. Who sold it with his own measure of lies and country charm. But given a diet of pure drivel over and over again for decades, it is no wonder that average American begins to accept these false ideas as true.

The solution. The constant, solid repetition of commonsense ideas that bear a Progressive stamp and that simply have largely been proven to be true and successful.

Think of your own life. If you want to change a bad habit, it still takes a lot of work. If you were to use affirmations, you would have to repeat them every time a notion that you know is false (but that has been conditioned into you) even begins to appear.

First way. First cause. The higher principles win out, always in the end, because they are linked to intelligence, they are linked to survival. But it sure is easy and tempting sometimes to follow the less enlightened ways.

To me, this is just about the best speech I have ever heard President Obama give.