In a 2002 interview, retiring congressman J.C. Watts said, "Here's the problem with Washington: If you are explaining, you are losing." He was saying that public policy is being made on the basis of bumper-sticker slogans rather than careful, detailed deliberation, and not just among the electorate, but at the highest levels. If our survival ever depends on adopting complex solutions, we are doomed.
This has an implication for candidates for public office. No one gets elected on platform planks that have to be explained, or that contain more an half a dozen words. People don't make their electoral decisions on the basis of issues, but on personalities or a sense of how the herd is moving. People don't want to have to think. -- Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------- Our efforts depend on donations from people like you. Directions for donors are at http://www.constitution.org/whatucando.htm Constitution Society 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 512/374-9585 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get your free digital certificate from http://www.thawte.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
