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Mushy Center

In politics the tendency for candidates to move to the center when things get tough for them has become increasingly popular. The move helps them to side step and deflect heat coming at them from things that they have done or that have been done to them causing their popularity to wane. It also can appease a segment of folks that typically are not their constituency when members of their own base are looking at them unfavorably in hopes of making up lost ground regarding supporters. Come election time this can be especially important as it can help garner support. However, this still requires strong support from at least most of your base, and when they are fed up with a politician it is usually a good idea to get them behind that person to have not only guaranteed votes, but so as to look as if you are who you say you are. Bizarre schizophrenic personality shifts that try and say “I am no longer the person I was just four years ago” can seem – off.

When a politician starts their original campaign making things not as much about their personality as the issues, this can be different. In such cases for them to develop more of a personality can be a good thing. If they won on the issues the emergence of a stronger or strengthening character ...

But Where Did It Go?

There is so much talk from all corners about the stimulus bills that went through Congress in 2008 and 2009. There are people that supported them both and thought they were precisely what we needed to stave off far greater financial repercussions as a result of the sub-prime mortgage bond fueled collapse. There are those that supported just the Bush stimulus saying either we needed that, but not the Obama stimulus, or that they were wrong to have supported even that and that we needed neither. Those that supported both are almost universally from the left side of the isle and criticize the right for what they call not having the courage to go further.

There was the passage of what some have called a quiet stimulus since then happening at the end of 2010 passed by both Democrats and Republicans under the radar while the nation ...

The Heart of the Movement

The driving forces behind any movement are sometimes seen as external forces that push and pull on them using a variety of methods. We view things like say the money funding a movement (if there is much) to be the driving force behind specific movements. At other times we get sidetracked into believing various elements vying to be the faces of the movements are what keep them going. Outside influences seeking to tap into and take credit for the gains and messages of movements are often mistakenly given credit for being the forces behind or inspirations for these movements. None of these are the true soul of a movement.

The deepest part of any movement is the many people that comprise it. The multitude of the believers propelling it forward by giving of themselves for nothing more than to see a cause they believe in furthered are what lay at the core of any movement. They spread the message and spirit of the movement ...

They May Never Understand You

In any movement there will always be people that will want to harness the energy of that movement or themselves and their own benefit. It is the nature of the beast. It happens everywhere and in so many ways. At times that can be a very good and beneficial thing as there are outside forces that come in and by joining or adding to a movement they strengthen it and give it more momentum. Also people coming in from outside can be just a prelude to folks trying to slide in, insert their faces into a movement and claim themselves to be the leaders. This can have ruinous and disastrous consequences by adding water little by little until the essence has dispersed and whatever additive coloring may be mixed in and the movement's image can be bottled up to be sold elsewhere or quietly dumped down a drain.

In any movement there will always be people that will want to harness the energy of that movement or themselves and their own benefit.� It is the nature of the beast.� It happens everywhere and in so many ways.� At times that can be a very good and beneficial thing as there are outside forces that ...

So What Do We Have In Front Of Us?

Contrary to what so many politicians today believe, non-performance is not so easily smoothed over. In fact it costs them much more in campaign dollars in trying to make seem alright than it would were they to just perform. If they did the work, if they simply came through on their promises when given, they wouldn't have to spend so much trying to come up with something – anything - to embellish their records in front of the public. We would know. They would not have to worry and fret about whether or not their lies are working. They would be out touting their record – a record no one could deny, because when they previously promised they would do such and such if elected, they could prove they in fact did.

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This election season we are sure to hear each of the sides lie about the other. We already are to an extent, but since we are not out of the primaries we are still hearing people taking shots ...