RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

The ever-lively Legal Insurrection induced a knock-around today on the subject of electioneering.  Following upon a jejune, formulaic, petulant and sophomoric post that actually contains a valid point hidden within its unrefined expression, several comments in an altogether sparkling discussion — to include a delightful troll and his or her counter-punchers — were by me, including this one which expresses an ancient and deep attitude inside from as long ago as I can reliably recall:

“This doesn’t mean reaching out to hardcore liberals; it means reaching out to the undecideds and the disengaged and the people who have been ignored in their precincts for one reason or another. They’re out there, and they’re listening.”

Now that I can commend. The post would be improved by that as its BLUF.  Reaching out is commie-speak, but I can brush past that to your point.

Still, instead of they’re listening, I would be more heartened to hear, I’m listening. I think we are not promoting a party program, or even a values program. Or, should not be. Nor are we promoting a course of action. People can handle/do all of that themselves. I think we are promoting a what obstacles do you need removed so you can do for yourself? program.

To help someone, one does not put something in to them, one takes something away from them, something that is obstructing them, tying them up. One does not instill things or values, one removes burdens. A doctor does not add health, they subtract disease. A sculptor does not make a statue, they remove the stone obscuring the statue. A person is not a market, they are a creature with a homing instinct.

Something like that.

Update 1: One party rule in Great Britain, also.  And also being challenged.

Update 2: Myron Ebell and Steven J. Milloy: Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA