2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: ELECTION SPOILER: Obama wins in a LANDSLIDE [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)You bet on Reverse Psychology.
I bet on Forward Psychology.
If you expect to lose, then Reverse Psychology is a smart ploy.
If you expect to win, then Forward Psychology is a smart ploy.
If you're not sure you're gonna pull something off, you need to psych out your team so they do the opposite of what's stated.
If you're sure you're gonna pull something off, you need the bandwagon effect so that everybody piles on the winning team.
I believe predicting landslides is THE BEST thing we can do.
Not just for this election but for the Democratic Party itself.
I stopped calling myself a Democrat because by & large they became so weak.
The image of strength is what keeps some people voting for Republicans year after year.
They may be wrong but they look strong so people jump onto that.
EVERYBODY in the working class should be on the Democrat team but they're not because the Democrats became weak.
Racism was the main thing that fractured the Democratic Party forged by FDR.
The Republicans seeing the coming invulnerability of the New Deal Democrats as a party picked out a weak point in those racist Dixiecrats & absorbed them into their party to keep the Republican Party from going extinct.
The working class has been divided ever since.
Obama has to win to correct that weak point.
The former Dixiecrats & their descendants must be made to lose & lose HARD in order to repair the damage caused by their split after the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
When they get landslided next week, they will know that their time is over & will either carry that stupid grudge to their graves or change with the times & get back on board with the unity.
This election being seen as close is nonsense.
You ain't going Forward as Obama's campaign slogan says until these guys are straight up DOMINATED at the voting booth.
Do we want 4 more years of mealy-mouth crap?
Or do we want a strong progressive/liberal direction for this country?
Want more mealy-mouth? Go for the close election.
Want a new direction for this country? Go for the landslide.
No more weakness for Democrats.
No more scaredy-cat stuff for Democrats.
No more timidness for Democrats.
No more wimpiness for Democrats.
No more fear. No more worry. No more bleakness.
We Are WINNERS.
Don't think it. KNOW it.
CERTAIN words. STRONG words.
CERTAIN directions. STRONG directions.
Bush Jr. led with Fear & look what it got us.
FDR says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
We don't need Fear.
It's time to Win.
John Lucas