Wednesday, March 03, 2004
John Edwards
At first, John Edwards campaign message about the two America's was emotionally appealing. As I'm sure you know, it's central conceit was that we have two healthcare systems in America, two educational systems, two tax systems, two (you fill in the blank) systems; one for the tiny percentage of the wealthy and one for the rest of us. Never mind the fact that his solution is to turn to the same benevolent government for help that is strangely the malevolent one that put us here in the first place (through high taxes, regulations, intrusion into healthcare, education, employment law, zoning, welfare rights, etc.). But I think the bottom-line problem in his stump speech was that when he was trying to ignite the fuse of class-warfare, he was actually striking a cord in the minds of the audience. When he spoke about the advantages of being rich in America I could see Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen saying to themselves, "I want to be like them. I really want to be like them."
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