It might be about time to dissect the significance and meaning of the Mike Gravel presidential campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 A flow-chart should be drawn to explain where certain themes became prevalent and tactics became prominent.<\/p>\n
When launched, I gathered he was setting out to advance\u00c2\u00a0a few\u00c2\u00a0relatively esoteric ideas he had been championing — most notably the National Initiative.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever degree he ever had covarage, they tended to be pushed aside for more immediate items on the political cultural scene — which is to say, his anti-war credentials.\u00c2\u00a0 It got to the point where he disowned his tax proposal, more or less, when asked saying not to worry about that because no congress would ever pass it.<\/p>\n
Rounding through the debate circuit — the stage set up gravitating toward a set up which moved from the center to the edges — Clinton and Obama, Edwards and Richardson, Dodd and Biden, and then Kucinich and Gravel — question time following this line of progression, and the point of his campaign became the message of not being allowed to speak, even as he became noted for robust barbs against his opponents.\u00c2\u00a0 Thus his mute youtube videos — minimalist one item of symbolism.\u00c2\u00a0 The last of the youtube videos — just after the cane came and pulled him off debate stage Vaudeville style, a rendition of “Give Peace a Chance”, holding his banishment from grace as coming due to him being the one taking on the Military Industrial Complex — and the duct tape pulled right onto his mouth.<\/p>\n
But I suspect this all should be pushed aside for the real message, the bottom line, of Mike Gravel Candidate for President.\u00c2\u00a0 Asked whether he had ever had premaritial sex, he teased the question before gloating about his premariatial sex.\u00c2\u00a0 Thematically roll this to the proposal to lower the drinking age, and then toss in his words of wisdom to a high school audience last week — which was that you should not drink because smoking pot is better.<\/p>\n
It is about the only Gravel is going to make news, if only minor blurbs.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think it can carry him that much farther, and of course electorally there is by definition no underaged sex-recreational drug- drunk voting block.\u00c2\u00a0 One could look at Gravel as either being the Uncle who is trying to hard to be cool with the kids, or as somehow addressing the America that we live in as opposed to the one we like to pretend we live in.\u00c2\u00a0 What platform he has to continue I do not know — maybe now these civic lessons teachings are the only platforms that will be available for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It might be about time to dissect the significance and meaning of the Mike Gravel presidential campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 A flow-chart should be drawn to explain where certain themes became prevalent and tactics became prominent. When launched, I gathered he was setting out to advance\u00c2\u00a0a few\u00c2\u00a0relatively esoteric ideas he had been championing — most notably the National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-gravel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}