Countermeasures

Perdue, Nunn and government obfuscation

When a missile is fired at a military airplane or a torpedo is fired from a ship, the targeted craft will send out chaff as a countermeasure.  Often the missile or torpedo is fooled into chasing the countermeasure.  The same strategies are used by government against their citizens.  These are called “false flags” and are similar to ‘bait & switch’.  Government will claim that their solutions will solve a particular problem, like healthcare cost, but in fact, their solutions will produce the opposite effect, like doubling the cost.

Countermeasures can be used in any debate.  The opponent will use the rules of war to win the argument.  The favored way is to attempt to discredit your opponent.  If the audience is taken in by the diversion or off-topic question, the presenter will lose stature. This is like asking a city council candidate his position on abortion.  City councils don’t vote on issues like abortion.  The presenter must grab the diversion and shove it gently down their opponent’s throat.

There are pat answers to most open questions posed to candidates for local office, like priorities.  The safe, favored and most vapid answer is ‘police protection’ with lots of rhetoric about citizen safety.  It’s vapid because no police officer can ever arrive in time to stop a crime or save a life. Most citizens in the audience will like the answer and give the candidate a pass.  The ‘softball’ questions allowed candidates to ‘hide out’.  Often candidates who attempt to give a thoughtful accurate answer are not liked as well by the audience.  Voters thereby continue to elect scammers and flim-flam artists.

We often see a question asked, but not answered. Instead, the candidate used the time to restate one of their talking points.  A good moderator with a relevant question will keep asking the same question the candidate refused to answer until the candidate answers it.  I’ve never seen this done.

Campaign ad strategies can be effective.  David Perdue’s ad against Nunn paints her as an Obama bobble-head and it’s effective.  Michelle Nunn’s ad against Perdue attempts to paint him as a woman discriminator and cites that a settlement was paid as proof.  In Perdue’s case, as a CEO of a retail chain, he was dealing with sales demand drops and increases and shareholder equity protection, not personnel compensation. If he did approve a settlement, he got bad legal advice and took it. The ad didn’t prove the accusation, that Perdue is anti-women.  Democrats invented discrimination laws to provide countermeasures and pay back campaign contributions from law firms. That is truer than Michelle Nunn’s assertions.

We will know how many voters bought Michelle Nunn’s countermeasures after we count the vote. Candidates who approve vapid campaign strategies are not qualified for public office and most of them aren’t.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader