It has come down to outvoting the opposition

No amount of tolerance, facts, and invitations to discourse will change the minds of those who do not wish to listen. The President says about 1/4 of Americans are anti-war. It may be smaller, like 1/6. In both cases, they are a minority, and cannot be allowed to drag the majority down their path of false security and inability to see what will happen if they got their way. Saving ourselves is still a priority to most Americans.

So locally, state-wide, and federally, the primary effort must be to get out the vote if the majority is too prevail at all levels of our American culture. Using the story of taking a horse to water but you can’t make him drink can apply. In this case, don’t waste your time taking the horse to water. Rather ensure the majority of the herd always has troughs of water to go to for their nourishment.

Available time is important to most. Waiting to organize a get out the vote campaign has to start now, not later. And the intent is let the majority say what is important for the future, assuming the politicians will follow the vote. Some won’t since too many are dinosaurs politically, and they will be replaced. This especially applies to those who follow the money and power and egos about what our culture should be, rather than representing us. And domestic concerns about American culture normally trump foreign concerns, and who knows what the majority will say since independents outnumber republicans or democrats. But it must be the majority who predominate.

Everyone gets one vote. Income nor education nor property ownership nor national service provides extra votes. For the majority to run this Country, they must vote, locally, state-wide, and federally. Polls and focus groups and forecasts do not run this Country, people do. Forecasts about wasted votes because the forecasters already know the outcome are too often incorrect. Americans know this. History is replete with examples of upsets in elections and sports. Voting and showing up for the game still counts: locally, state-wide, and federally.

As many who fall into the trap of over-intellectualizing issues, or being too missionary in their goals, or being too tolerant for naivety reasons, or just being children of the 60’s, a tipping point has been reached due to the convergence of foreign and domestic issues. Foreign-wise, the recent Israeli strike in Syria tells many in their face there are evil people who wish to do us in for their reasons. Domestic-wise, the recent moveon ad in the NYT was a low too many cannot tolerate since it is un-American, and the poor condemnation of the ad only amplified the divide that is now clear to them, again in their face. Since most reject revolution and civil war, let the vote and the majority rule. Since no one has a lock on wisdom as to a best course of action, and in spite of those who declare they know the truth, the majority can be wrong, or be less than best. But by golly, it will be the majority in charge. This is the American way.