RE: Today in "Sell More And Do Nothing"
April 11, 2019 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2019 at 12:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In a sane world, effective gun regulation isn't a right or left issue. This is not a sane world, gun regs are a wedge.
The whole game is pretty clever. You find or create some issue that can yield predictable election outcomes. You then sell access and influence to those predictable outcomes, the one thing no politician can pass up. So long as people on either side of the wedge are pointing and firing at someone else...the right side thinks it's soshulizms, the left side thinks it's gun makin profitz...you get to keep the pieces in play without interference from either.
The right will respond with increasingly silly shit, the left will up the ante with their own stupid shit, rinse and repeat. The cumulative effect of all this stupid shit only strengthens the value of the wedge.
The whole game is pretty clever. You find or create some issue that can yield predictable election outcomes. You then sell access and influence to those predictable outcomes, the one thing no politician can pass up. So long as people on either side of the wedge are pointing and firing at someone else...the right side thinks it's soshulizms, the left side thinks it's gun makin profitz...you get to keep the pieces in play without interference from either.
The right will respond with increasingly silly shit, the left will up the ante with their own stupid shit, rinse and repeat. The cumulative effect of all this stupid shit only strengthens the value of the wedge.
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