Comments on: Democratic Platform Could Portend Trouble http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/democratic-platform-could-portend-trouble.html A Netzine About Ideas Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:20:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Al http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/democratic-platform-could-portend-trouble.html/comment-page-1#comment-10149 Al Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:15:28 +0000 http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/?p=565#comment-10149 I completely agree! The Democrats have become so afraid of losing that they will throw anything into the mix that that they think will help them not lose. They are micromanaging the whole platform thinking that more control/more detail is better since it will theoretically address every concern every U.S. voter will have regarding the Democratic platform and the election. This all reminds me of the after-action report on the Iran Hostages rescue debacle. In essence, all the powers to be in Washington were so concerned that something would go wrong that almost all final decisions were made by them, rather than by the people on the ground. Of course, it became a self-fulfilling expectation. I completely agree! The Democrats have become so afraid of losing that they will throw anything into the mix that that they think will help them not lose. They are micromanaging the whole platform thinking that more control/more detail is better since it will theoretically address every concern every U.S. voter will have regarding the Democratic platform and the election.

This all reminds me of the after-action report on the Iran Hostages rescue debacle. In essence, all the powers to be in Washington were so concerned that something would go wrong that almost all final decisions were made by them, rather than by the people on the ground. Of course, it became a self-fulfilling expectation.

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