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Politics : Politics for Honest Conservatives -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (2264)	4/20/2019 5:57:12 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3350

If you were seeking to co-opt legitimacy in governance... the "mish-mash" makes for an easier target in each instance, while the binary makes both for fewer targets and a vastly greater ability to vary vectors and manage events within and between the protagonists, imposing the milieu of the chaos presented... either to drive stalemate with smoke and fury, or to enable a vector in drift... in a particular direction without notice posted in headlines... or to pose battles and outcomes as desired shiny objects to deflect attention. The problem is made somewhat more difficult in a system with more moving parts, each of which is independent of a single authority. The means by which co-opting occurs will be different... right, Alex Tsipras ? Two points worth noting... When Foreign Policy calls you "smart"... it probably has nothing to do with your "success" in enabling outcomes consistent with the core interest of those that brung you... so, the FP sword on the shoulder validating the effort made isn't about coherence in representation of the interest of the people who put you there ? "Success" is "surrender" ? So, the point is... surrender to what and to whom ? Who is the sovereign power, in Europe ? That transition from firebrand rebel to approved agent of the sovereign interest... doesn't occur without tells... but, the smoke and noise in the engine room as those gears grind... is of a different character in the plural than that in the binary system... The degree to which politics is politics, or politics is the process of governance... matters. The binary system expects fewer real challenges occur, with more theater, since the challenges intended are pre-sets... and the binary system is easily previously co-opted on both sides in favor of the "what and to whom". That's not a well kept secret in the U.S., its just done over a span of history that inures the short attention span theater crowd to the hum. Trump... not a part of the team... Tsipras not a part of the team... And, yet... it seems the team will try to find a way to use the players from the other side to advance their own interests ? And then pat them on the head. Note, that is an issue that's more about "the nature of reality and conflict" than it is about the ideological focus on the partisans... The ideology is subsumed in the noise... leaving only the clanking of the machinery. You shouldn't expect change to succeed... if the heroes put forward don't understand the game being played.