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April 11, 2013

In 2012, tribal politics became national politics.

The country was divided and conquered. A campaign run on convincing a dozen separate groups to be afraid of each other and of the majority made all the difference, not in some urban slum, but from sea to shining sea. The country had at last become the city. And considering the state of the city... the state of the union does not look good. -- Sultan Knish: The Chicagoization of America

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 11, 2013 1:57 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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What happened is that the Obama team managed to build a nationwide machine like the big city political machines. Now the Democrats control America like they control New York and Chicago. A Republican might slip by once in a while in a non-critical race, but they'll always run things from now until there's no real America left. That's worked out so well for Detroit, after all.

Romney failed to get enough of a voting percentage to outrun the fraud. We warned the GOP not to run guys like that, but they just didn't care. He was "electable" despite having only one victory to his name. Romney ran a good campaign, but not a good enough one - and had too many negatives to really get his base rallied around him.

Combine that with the mood of the nation (fear, uncertainty, lack of personal ambition and responsibility) and a post modern culture that views getting yourself out of trouble and making your own way the sucker's route and it was just a no-win situation.

Even if, as I suspect, Romney technically won the election by a small margin, it didn't matter in the end.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 11, 2013 2:18 PM

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