tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post3521082271566796762..comments2024-03-16T11:54:44.590+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Building vs. MobilizingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-48660460795812126702013-10-07T00:58:01.633+02:002013-10-07T00:58:01.633+02:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategyS Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-18648465616073950112013-10-06T23:18:45.521+02:002013-10-06T23:18:45.521+02:00Newt Gingrich "built" the process that s...Newt Gingrich "built" the process that saw Bush elected twice.<br />He turned a North East old money prep school party in to a deep south small government home school party.<br />He started in 1980.<br /><br />Building support takes decades.<br />Because its not so simple as getting people to vote for you. Its about identifying a large none voting block and converting your party to their flag.<br /><br />Its no accident that Obama is a Yale educated law student, without Gingrich, he'd've been running a republican ticket.TrThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07316335177828136131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-68671055567912262013-10-04T13:50:13.897+02:002013-10-04T13:50:13.897+02:00'Maintaining' a building suggests that it ...'Maintaining' a building suggests that it is unarguable worthwhile keeping 'as is'.<br /><br />Improving such structures or replacing them with new concepts is typically driven by the challenges that have been arbitrarily imposed on those inhabiting/using the building.<br /><br />In politics, 'maintaining' arbitrary inequities attracts those happy to maintain as 'janitors' since personal advantages are thus preserved.<br /><br />Once inequities such as political access, political and economic opportunities are recognized also as inherently self-reducing/self-limiting/self-denigrating even to those who claim to enjoy them, then it is time for architectural thinking - from minor alterations over adding a wing to in rare cases a complete tear-down.<br /><br />And that would suggest a natural advantage for the architects.... assuming they know what wrong with the structure...and assuming they know how to correct that challenge.<br /><br />Just sweeping up dust-bunnies would always amount to going 'AWOL - Absent Without Leave - due to a lack of vision and can-do. And that really favors 'Architects' outlook - assuming they know... TwentyTwentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935410307831357488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-79581882557122746912013-10-02T13:26:20.060+02:002013-10-02T13:26:20.060+02:00You want that job as a politician. Which strategy ...You want that job as a politician. Which strategy does pay off - building or mobilizing?<br />Building does serve as a tool for mobilizing your support, but it's just one of many tools for mobilization. Politicians good at mobiliation do often build, but building usually does carry higher risks of enmity mobilization and loss of political position.<br />The day to day work of politicians is maintenance and administration. Building structures are extraordinary efforts out of the ordinary. German conservatives pretty well understand this janitor approach, while their social democratic opponents are rather architects (this is no judgement on who is the better politician).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com