Comments on: Taking a Break from Political Blogging http://www.restaurantfuel.com/2008/09/10/taking-a-break-from-political-blogging/ Politics and Popular Culture and Cardiomyopathy Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:00:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: James DiBenedetto http://www.restaurantfuel.com/2008/09/10/taking-a-break-from-political-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-65 James DiBenedetto Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:33:48 +0000 http://www.restaurantfuel.com/?p=394#comment-65 "But what does it matter? Americans don’t like facts, and the Republicans are great at spinning narratives. In the comments, James believes that the Republicans will win based on narrative, on the Democratic attacks on Palin failing to stick — and if things go like they did in 2000 and 2004, they very well might." All elections are about narratives. This is not unique to Republicans, or to Americans generally. The candidate who presents a better/more appealing narrative that seems to more voters to coincide both with their lives and beliefs as they see them, and the world as they'd like it to be, will win. Obama and the Democrats do this just as surely as McCain and the Republicans do. Just as you are frustrated and angered that more people don't see through the McCain campaign and recognize the failures of the Republicans and the problems our nation faces, I'm frustrated that so many people don't see through Obama and (what I see as) his lies and distortions and troublesome history. You said it in a previous post, about partisanship. Progressives and Hard-code conservatives want a VERY different country and society from each other, and both sides are so sure of their truth and their good intentions that it's difficult/impossible to imagine that the other side could have a point - or even that there can be an honest and decent other side in the first place. “But what does it matter? Americans don’t like facts, and the Republicans are great at spinning narratives. In the comments, James believes that the Republicans will win based on narrative, on the Democratic attacks on Palin failing to stick — and if things go like they did in 2000 and 2004, they very well might.”

All elections are about narratives. This is not unique to Republicans, or to Americans generally.

The candidate who presents a better/more appealing narrative that seems to more voters to coincide both with their lives and beliefs as they see them, and the world as they’d like it to be, will win.

Obama and the Democrats do this just as surely as McCain and the Republicans do.

Just as you are frustrated and angered that more people don’t see through the McCain campaign and recognize the failures of the Republicans and the problems our nation faces, I’m frustrated that so many people don’t see through Obama and (what I see as) his lies and distortions and troublesome history.

You said it in a previous post, about partisanship. Progressives and Hard-code conservatives want a VERY different country and society from each other, and both sides are so sure of their truth and their good intentions that it’s difficult/impossible to imagine that the other side could have a point – or even that there can be an honest and decent other side in the first place.

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