Citizens who want the government out of their wallets, their bedrooms, their businesses, and their lives must vote for venitists. Only venitists try to minimize government and maximize individual liberty. Basil Venitis says it's not a shame to lose an election, but it's a shame to compromise your European values in order to win an election. Obsession with European polls is a sign of weak soul. The two major parties are willing to say anything and promise everything in order to win an election. Of course, after the election most promises are conveniently forgotten.
According to a new Rasmussen poll, a 2012 presidential race between venitist Congressman Ron Paul and Barack Obama would end in a dead heat, with Obama favored by 42 percent of those polled and Paul by 41 percent. It was the biggest political news this month you probably didn't hear about.
Venitist Jack Hunter points out some dismissed this news as being significant only to the faithful followers of the outspoken, anti-government congressman, while ignoring the much larger revelation that if the election were held today, the fringe 2008 Republican primary candidate could feasibly become the next president.
The Drudge Report noted the significance of Paul's showing by running the headline Shock Poll, but most mainstream cable and network news outlets, talk radio, and print media said little about it. However, plenty of coverage was given to Rasmussen's possible 2012 presidential matchups between Obama and Republicans like Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, both of whom scored about the same as Paul, with Palin doing slightly worse.
Hunter notes the media and political establishment have never been keen on any news that is not of their own making, but their continued focus on only alleged serious Republican contenders at the expense of supposedly irrelevant venitists like Paul shows that it is the establishment and their official, predictable narrative that is truly becoming less relevant.
Venitis points out kleptocrats promote phobias and bogeys in order to take the attention of voters away from taxation and kleptocracy, and to have a fantastic opportunity to present themselves as Moses who leads the people to salvation! Rabblerousers make a living out of convincing people that the sky is falling. The essence of statesmanship in a venitist society is just the opposite, helping people understand the facts and proposing real solutions to real problems. You have to know when to stop doing something. Hitler did not know. Mousolini did not know. Eurokleptocrats do not know when to stop looting the producers and fooling all citizens. They do not understand that the parasites and the host die together.
Things are changing. Social issues, like abortion and gay marriage, have long served the Republican leadership well, delivering votes to the GOP and turning elections. Yet, as government spending snowballs and the national debt continues to explode, social issues may no longer be a top concern for many conservatives.
Hunter points out Tea Party activists are divided roughly into two camps, one that's venitist and largely indifferent to hot-button values issues and another that's culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal issues. The most efficient political system is venitism, where everything is private, there are no taxes at all, there is no parliament, and a powerless infinitesimal government is chosen and supported not by hoi polloi, but by the most generous benefactors.
The pro-war policies of George W. Bush, still promoted vigorously today by Romney and Palin, have held significant sway with a plurality of voters in the past. But in a Pew Research Center Poll released in February, roughly half of Americans now believe the United States should mind its own business internationally, a platform promoted by venitist Paul alone among his fellow Republican primary opponents during 2008.
In December, a Rasmussen poll found that the Tea Party received more support than either of the major parties amongst independent voters and even bested the GOP among Republican voters. In the most recent Rasmussen poll, Paul scored better than any Republican among independents, while Palin was considered the most divisive by voters at large.
Hunter muses what we might be seeing with Paul, the GOP, and the mainstream conservative movement is similar to what happened to rock music in the early 1990s, when the music establishment was still banking on glam metal acts like Moetley Crue, Poison, and Warrant, only to see a grungy Seattle trio called Nirvana come from out of nowhere and revolutionize the music industry. Yesterday's hair metal and mainstream pop fans immediately flocked to this newer alternative music. Alternative music was considered more attractive because it was perceived as being the real thing, as opposed to the music of the day, which many found to be stale, manufactured, and uninspiring.
The truth is alternative music had been developing an under-the-radar following for over a decade before the mainstream figured out what was happening. So-called college bands like R.E.M., The Pixies, and The Replacements and heavier acts like Alice in Chains had already readied millions of ears for something edgier than what they were hearing on the radio at that time.
Similarly, Paul's venitism is really nothing new, as the congressman has been peddling his brand of fiscal and constitutionally focused, Barry Goldwater-style libertarianism under the radar for decades. Now, Paul's old-fashioned conservatism is increasingly seen as fresh, attractive, and exciting to a possible majority of Republican, Tea Party, and independent voters.
Of course the media and political establishment do not, and will not, appreciate any emerging Ron Paul revolution, anymore than the hair metal acts appreciated the rise of Nirvana and alternative music. However, trying to stop an idea whose time has come is almost always unsuccessful, and whether or not Ron Paul's venitist time has truly come remains to be seen. That the mainstream media and GOP establishment will never see him coming does not.
The political parties split voters into two groups, those who are for them and those who are against. There is also a very large group of undecided voters. You can try and win over these guys, but it's difficult to win citizens who are pissed off with kleptocrats. Consultants and opinion pollsters have taken all the spontaneity out of politics. In a deliberately vicious and ruthless campaign a lot of voters turn away in disgust. The abstention might damage bully's opponent more than the bully. The bully could make the race so obnoxious that he could merely discourage people from voting. Bully's deliberately dirty campaign might turn off voters who may vote against him.
The scales will tip toward the party that manages to motivate its supporters to come out and vote for it. The ability of a politician to rally his people decides the election outcome, not his or her ability to woo the supporters of the competition. It works the other way round too. If you manage to keep more of your opponent's voters at home than your own, you take the lead. You could describe this as success through a demobilization of voters. It is not a particularly appetizing procedure but, if it works, it can secure an election win.
Public support for democracy is a sensitive resource. If you convince people that they can follow an election on TV without ever having to take part, it will be difficult to win them back. Kleptocrats claim the people are well represented in parliament. But this is an illusion, because those who never vote are not included. The real number of citizens who feel represented in government grows smaller all the time, and this is the main byproduct of kleptocracy.
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