Is the US headed towards a socialist government?

[Occhidiangela]

Did it occur to you that I was talking about the majority of *representatives*, or even *voters*, not the majority of the *population*? Or are you just so very eager to find something to nitpick so you can pick yet another fight with me?

('round and 'round we go... I ask you to stop insulting me, you keep insulting me... whee!)

-Jester

So you fall in to the trap, all so easily.

Among that thirty percent, or so, or evern forty percent whose boy is elected,

Be the boy Clinton, Reagan, W Bush, Obama, FDR, or whomever, to include Prodi et al in Europe, the ones who actually set the agenda

Your words, my friend

are a small set of active and committed people.

The rest are along for the ride.

Once again, the core truth of politics is that a minority sets the political agenda. Lenin, for example, was no idiot. He understood very well what political action required: a core group of people who'd have the gumption to bloody well pursue their aims, and either recruit or cast aside opposition.

It's how it works, and has for a long time.

What the hard working agenda setters need is a sales pitch that works well enough. They then sell their platform.

This even works within smaller groups, to include parties in office in halls of government.

Group dynamics, 101.

Jester, before you get all upset about being picked on, read the words you write through a lens other than your own belief in yourself.

Occhi