Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Vivek Ramaswamy - Why My Campaign Was Successful" video.

  1. Thanks for honoring freedom of speech. News media outlets (and that includes podcasters) thrive financially by stirring up animosity against either left or right politics. The terms "Extreme" left ... and "Extreme" right ... riles the citizens up even more to want to cause harm to what is perceived as being " nasty opponents." If the political word "centrist" ... meaning "compromise" ... was the focus of comments ... wouldn't that be monotonous ... repetitious and not at all note-worthy? Readers and listeners would be tuning out. There shouldn't be any doubt about it ... human animals love negative drama ... love to hate either left or right ... or look forward to becoming even more “worked up” over the terminology ... 'extreme" left and "extreme" right. I’m a Canadian, and no matter which party is in office, I am thankful to live in Canada.
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  2. Thanks for honoring freedom of speech. What politicians say in a campaign doesn't have to be what they really believe is true. They are there to try to follow the will of the voters ... and that is impossible when the voters don't agree with each other. And then there is the issue of the politicians wanting to be the ones that DO win ... so thy are in a position where they are fully aware that they must read the "moods" of the voters that have the most voting power. Such was and IS the case with the touchy subject of abortion . Donald’ Trump's statements. October 1999: 'I am very pro-choice' February 2011: 'I am pro-life' February 2016: Says he'll defund Planned Parenthood — while also praising the group March 2016: 'Some form of punishment' for women who seek abortions October 2016: Trump vows to overturn Roe v. Wade June 2022: 'God made the decision' to overturn Roe v. Wade November 2022: Republican midterm losses December 2022: McConnell blames Trump January 2023: Trump blames abortion for the midterm losses September 2023: Trump makes vague promises about an abortion compromise John McCain played the same type of politics as did Donald Trump when he needed the votes from the evangelicals. From the program on Television titled "Jesus Politics" ...In 1999, a year before his first speech for the White House, John McCain told the San Francisco Chronicle that he did not see a need in the near future to overturn Roe v Wade. He repeated his position on CNN. John McCain verbatim … "We all know, and it's obvious, that if we repeal Roe v Wade, tomorrow, thousands of young women will be performing illegal and dangerous operations." In 2008, in the South Carolina primaries, the senator said something quite different … John McCain verbatim ... "I do not support Roe v Wade. It should be overturned." As voters "not in office" ... we are the armchair politicians. We will vote for them ... and they can do the work required to lead a government ... but if they don't follow our personal commands ... that old idiom comes to mind ... "They can't win for losing." Dalton Kemp … Political advisor, on the Fifth Estate interview, January 1996, stated the following… “What I learned about power is that there isn’t any. You don’t have the power to make the world in your image. You just have the power to make the best deal you can make, and get out of town alive, and that’s as far as it goes. It’s all a mirage.”
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