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The Elite Isn't Leading Anymore. It's Trapped.

I Want People To Understand That, Look, We're In A Period Of Democratic Deficit, Democratic Recession. There Are Fewer Democracies In The World Today Than In 2005, And In Many Of The Countries That Are Still Technically Democracies, We're Seeing A Reduction In The Rule Of Law. And That's Especially True In Central Europe, But It's Also True Of Places Like South Africa, The Philippines.

Anybody Who Imagines That An Election Can Be Won Under These Circumstances By Banging On About William Ayers And Jeremiah Wright Is ... To Put It Mildly ... Severely Under-estimating The Electoral Importance Of Pocketbook Issues. We Conservatives Are Sending A Powerful, Inadvertent Message With This Negative Campaign Against Barack Obama's Associations And Former Associations: That We Lack A Positive Agenda Of Our Own And That We Don't Care About The Economic Issues That Are Worrying American Voters.

We All Have More At Stake In The Rules Of The Game Than We Do In The Outcomes Of The Game. When That Changes, That's When You Begin To Lose Democracy.

Democracy Requires You To Learn How To Lose As Well As How To Exercise Power When You Win. And That Requires Restraint All Around. One Of The Reasons It Works Is Because When You Win You Don't Do Things That Are So Upsetting To The Losers That They Feel Like They Have Less, They Have More To Gain By Turning Over The System.