You work at the Department of Redundancy Department, right?

Stolios, that’s a good insight… pols ‘doing what electorate is guiding them to do.’ There’s a concept of the collective unconscious that I think might make an interesting article regarding pol demeanor and thought processes.

Too, I think that like other ‘institutions’ sometimes, people keep replicating ‘the same ‘ol, same ‘ol,’ not because they want to, but because their imaginations have been atomized long long ago; univision takes over then.

dr.e

I am all for the candidates taking responsibility for the maturation of the campaign process, and for those who seek to lead our nation to be their real selves, rather than being the ostensibly artificial candidates whom their consultants are telling them to be.

But I wonder, in what seems to me to be a chicken/egg question: Aren’t the politicians merely doing what the electorate is guiding them to do? It seems to me that when the voters take their own steps to insist on the maturation of the process, by consistently rejecting negativism, and by being devoted to the notion of rewarding honesty, confidence, and the real measure of the candidate, then perhaps we will see even a greater chance for candidates such as Rudy, Fredo, and even their likely opponents, to be their true selves, and not the manufactured, and fragmented, bits and pieces of who they really are.

Still, I have to say that It would be quite remarkable to see any one of the current candidates choose to lead by example in the style you propose. Maybe were they to do so, the electorate would be able to respond in kind.

Here’s to hoping.

From the look of thisgs, though, I think we’re in for more of smear and destroy season. I wish they would give a warning before a political ad comes on, so I can turn the TV/radio off in time.