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Beers with our Founding Fathers

repels the Fiscal Culture. If there is no economy, social issues do not

matter. Ignore them, do not make them an issue – or more
accurately, do not respond when they are made issues. As the left

(Democrats, liberals, progressives, socialists, etc.) focus more on
social issues, the faster the spiral into the economic abyss we go.

The presidential election of 1992 and re-election of 1996 were both
won by the simple phrase, ‘It is the economy, stupid’ – and it was.

Social ideologies and fiscal ideologies mix like oil and water. If
discussing politics, religion and social issues among friends is taboo

– why in the world would these subjects be made part of the
candidate’s party platform? It is ignorant – idiotology. It will always

be the economy – always. Either good or bad – but always.
Why is it that opposing ideologies really cannot work together,

bi-partisanship? Simple, they are too far apart, even when
appearing to be close. First, it is Tunnel Intelligence – essentially

being too shortsighted to become informed, together with the
inability to think outside the box. We’ll expand on this later in this

work. Every election cycle, which now begins about two years
before the election, the polls concentrate on each of the major party

candidates, and the ‘undecided’ voter – often misplaced as being
Independent. Ignore the undecided – they are emotional voters and

will decide in the voting booth. But, do not ignore the Independent.
Why? They value the non-social core values and beliefs they have,

and will vote that way. In other words – focus on the primary non-

social and non-religious issues, starting with the economy – it is
always the economy and never social issues. Independents are not
party affiliated because the parties have become incoherent to the

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