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The Chicago Tribune has a good article about Kucinich. I was struck by something as I read in comment after comment from people who think Kucinich is right on and the kind of man they want in the White House yet in the same breath they say he can't win.
How complete is the influence of the corporate media. It has convinced people that the candidate they want, the candidate they yearn for, can't win.
This is just incredible. This candidate expresses everything people say they want to happen, from the withdrawal from Iraq to health care to the environment to help for the middle class... on and on. And yet thousands of people are convinced he can't win simply because the media tells them so. As Marc Maron says, Wake up sheeple. The first step to reclaiming your nation is to take that bold move and vote for the candidate who truly represents you—regardless of what the media is telling you. They have a vested interest in keeping him out of power. He is not corporate America's friend. He is yours.
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Lynne, I would agree with you but for one assumption. I think you assume that enough people in our nation ... enough Democrats or liberals ... really would embrace Kucinich under the right circumstances.
Unfortunately I don't think that's true. And living where you live I bet you can see it more clearly than I living in a very comfy liberal zone of the country.
If Kucinich had a chance to win, we wouldn't be having the problems we have with Congress and Congressional Dems. Unfortunately there is a vast swath of the country that is not yet ready to really become progressive. Until, and unless there's a catacylsmic event that sways people to the left (like 911 did to the right, ... like say a vast depression), political movement will be glacial and people like Nadar and Kucinich remain ahead of their time. And it's my opinion that if you jump too far out in front there's a risk of losing the herd. The trick imo is to stay just ahead of the herd.
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I suspect Americans are more progressive than anyone realizes.
I've read Perlstein. Tom Hartmann says the same thing (among many others) and I completely agree. And I think we're moving in that direction.
But like it or not, and for whatever reason, the progressive branding has been poor. It's getting better, but brand changes do take time.
I'm simply saying that if you go too quickly, you alienate people. Unfortunately, when people vote they don't vote rationally, otherwise (and Perlstein makes this point well with the polling) we wouldn't have the asshole we currently have in the oval office.
Oh, I also wanted to mention that the data cited by Perlstein is nationwide.
Congress is not elected nationally. Thus there is an over-representation of the minority, i.e Montana has two Senators as does California. Like it or not, our elected representatives, by definition, are representative of their area. And like it or not (and I don't), guys like Ben Nelson (or Lieberman, or Feinstein ferchristsakes) continually win.
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