a talking head I can get behind
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And I say that because it works like your usual thesis: here's are problems A and B, and here are solutions C and D. Very concrete, if generalized, with some kind of indication/invitation of where to find more information. I'm sure you heard thousands of ads like this for other topics -- about home insurance, about medical issues, about local events, even retail has a use for this pattern.
What works here is that it's not with pretty pictures, music selection, and a paid voiceover person, which in the end (regardless of argument or source) often makes me feel like I'm partially being swayed by who has the best production values and can pay for the best voiceover talent. Nope, here it's the candidate doing the talking, and I don't know why, but that just seems to me to be...
I'd say "powerful" but that's cliched. More like, "fundamental".
Or maybe it's something else, like the fact that this unexpected -- but hopefully short if intense -- migraine-headache is just making me see things. Heh, suddenly the intended tags for this post seems rather apropros.
brithistorianAnd I say that because it works like your usual thesis: here's are problems A and B, and here are solutions C and D. Very concrete, if generalized, with some kind of indication/invitation of where to find more information. I'm sure you heard thousands of ads like this for other topics -- about home insurance, about medical issues, about local events, even retail has a use for this pattern.
What works here is that it's not with pretty pictures, music selection, and a paid voiceover person, which in the end (regardless of argument or source) often makes me feel like I'm partially being swayed by who has the best production values and can pay for the best voiceover talent. Nope, here it's the candidate doing the talking, and I don't know why, but that just seems to me to be...
I'd say "powerful" but that's cliched. More like, "fundamental".
Or maybe it's something else, like the fact that this unexpected -- but hopefully short if intense -- migraine-headache is just making me see things. Heh, suddenly the intended tags for this post seems rather apropros.
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 11:14 pm (UTC)Conservatives have been preaching "We don' need no freakin' oversight" for decades now. Problem is, that just doesn't work -- any more than the opposite extreme does. Sharing everything all the time (communism) runs up against greed. Free markets with no regulation and oversight runs up against greed. Neither works in the end.
Prudent government with sensible rules and enforcement -- which Grover Norquist et al have done their best to shackle and/or dismantle -- is what we need.
Milton Friedman-esque capitalism is dead. Bankrupt. Kaput. We're just waiting for the coroner to show up.