re: #287 Thanos

Well this does rather miss the point. Over here, the people now voting for and working for the BNP are not racists. The management of the BNP are but we in the UK are so sick and tired of a one party state where the oppositon is virtually indistinguishable from the government that we have come to the conclusion that the only way to get them to come to account it to threaten them. We lend them the power to go to westminster and this is a reminder that we can just as easily take it back from them. I belive their is a similar dynamic with Ron Paul. We I an American I probably would hold my nose and vote Ron Paul but not if there were any danger of him winning.

What I want to see is the mainstream parties listening to us. An I suspect the same is true in the states. The most robust opposition I have seen against the Obama spendathon is from Bachmann and Ron Paul. Where the hell are the mainstream?

Sarah Palin was a radical who excited the grassroots but she blew it by backtracking on AGW and so what do we have, yet another politico with beleifs they will sell out to obtain power. If you have a party that is willing to compromise on anything at any time for the sake of power they will acheive nothing with that power and wont know what to do with it when they get it. I havent seen Ron Paul backtrack on anything he’s said for the media.

We are tired of media puppets who will say and do anything. We are sick of politics as a soap opera. We want principled substantive policy and we would prefer it to be rooted in conservatism. Really there is an open goal to be had and the GOP is wasting the opportunity.

In Afghanistan right now there is a war for the hearts and minds of the people. It isn’t to do with Capitalism vs Islam. Afghanistan is a poor country. Right now they lean toward the taliban because poppy crops pay the bills and keep people fed. Until we can provide roads to get goods to market so that other crops are more profitable than poppy, we will always be on the back foot. The social and religous elements are secondary to them. They are no different to us. If you can say to the people that if you co-operate with us we will make you richer, your jobs will be safe and sustaibale then you will inspire their loyalty and it wouldn’t matter if we were exporting our social values with it. The US electorate is just the same. What good are liberal social values if you dont have a job?