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Originally Posted by kane
What amazes me is how both sides can often repackage the same shit over and over and keep selling it to their base. You would think after years and years of hearing the same promises and none of them ever coming true that people would finally stop buying it. But then along comes a candidate who somehow convinces the base that they are the real deal and they will actually be the one to make these changes and it works.
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This is what I was saying when Obama was campaigning. He mostly got elected for chanting feel good slogans. "hope and change!", "yes we can" etc.
The mob is quite fickle
and likability / physical appearance plays a major role. Of course, people were looking for the polar opposite of Bush, so it was an easy sell and clear choice. Certainly wouldn't have been Hillary.
What amused me about this was not the absence of any real meaningful message as people actively were getting on board with a guy that still had no message (at least up through the primaries)... it was that this kind of thing has been the same message since the dawn of civilization. "they don't listen anymore...its time we were heard... its time we went there and showed those fat cats that we're not going to take it anymore... its time for change... their greed this... their greed that... we need to throw those bastards out..." etc etc. It all could have just as easily been said in the Roman Senate in 100 B.C.