tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19937890.post7553167552430866448..comments2023-10-15T08:15:46.205-04:00Comments on Mike's Eyes (Spotted By): Supporting Evidence for Self-RelianceMichael Neibelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15321103608597264855noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19937890.post-6185222642597266832008-01-10T10:53:00.000-05:002008-01-10T10:53:00.000-05:00Burgess:Sorry for the fog. By soon I meant within ...Burgess:<BR/>Sorry for the fog. By soon I meant within the next generation or so. Perhaps I should have said relatively soon. I don't think they will show up at all levels of government. I think it probably will look something like Ronald Reagan's rise in California. At the time he spoke ideas that were alien to academia, the media, and politicians. But the voters were receptive to them. He won.<BR/><BR/>As our two parties continue to screw up the economy with altruistic controls that don't work, the voters will become more receptive to ideas that do work or sound like they can work. It is not enough to call for the elimination of the Dept. of Ed. or the IRS. The voters must be sold on something better.<BR/>I could be wrong but I think pain teaches (usually) and who is better at bringing us more pain every election than our two parties and their intellectual spokesmen. The Dems want to proclaim that they feel our pain. But someday a man will rise and say "I don't want to feel you're pain. I want to help you get rid of it. With rational ideas, he will win.<BR/><BR/>S Nerd:<BR/>Thanks. I agree that many people do try to verify trustworthy sources. I've noticed though that some people don't really know how to go about doing this. It's not surprising considering today's educational establishment's efforts at destroying independent thought processes in elementery and high school. People are routinely taught not to think for themselves but to seek out "authorities" who are annointed (credentialled) to be the determiners of truth. But I'm hopeful.Michael Neibelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15321103608597264855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19937890.post-6347689623492870052008-01-10T09:43:00.000-05:002008-01-10T09:43:00.000-05:00"verify then trust." I like that.I think most rati..."verify then trust." <BR/><BR/>I like that.<BR/><BR/>I think most rational folk try to do this. In today's internet world, it's easy to research some rather speciailized subjects for oneself. People do so, and then seek out experts -- doctors, investment managers, lawyers -- on that basis.SNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953992447839442060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19937890.post-38105941689226634112008-01-10T09:24:00.000-05:002008-01-10T09:24:00.000-05:00"But I do believe they'll start showing up soon."P..."But I do believe they'll start showing up soon."<BR/><BR/>Please don't leave your readers in suspense!<BR/><BR/><I>Why</I> do you expect such politicians to show up soon? (By soon, I assume you mean within one more election cycle.)<BR/><BR/>Also, do you mean they will show up at all levels of government: local, regional, and national? That's the normal progression, I suppose: first, some local movements support a local politician with radically new views; next, a few in some regions; and then a few individuals start showing up on the national scene.<BR/><BR/>Examples might be the temperance movement (ending in national Prohibition), tax limitation movements, and the old movement to abolish "blue laws," first acting locally and then spreading to wider areas. Of course, some such movements never rise beyond the local level.Burgess Laughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13865479709475171678noreply@blogger.com