Analog Politicians

ANALOG POLITICIANS  (new lexicon)

 In the food business we apply the term analog to describe a product that looks tastes and smells like the real thing, but is made up of another substance entirely.  You have likely consumed a surimi analog known in the US as imitation crab meat.  Two to three million tons of surimi are produced annually worldwide.  Producers of surimi analogs go to extreme lengths to get the color, texture, sweetness, saltiness, size, and aroma just right. When used as an ingredient you are likely to never know that you swallowed an imitation.

Surimi analogs look, walk, and talk like a duck but they are not the real thing.

The point is,  Analog is good word to use to describe politicians who appear, for all practical purposes, to represent an ideology but are in fact a synthesis of fake ingredients colored and flavored and texturized in order to sell for a higher price.  That is to say they are not really made from the stuff they have lead you to believe.

Our President is an Analog American.  He has gone to extreme lengths to convince Americans that he is made up of the right ingredients when in fact he is made up of entirely different stuff altogether.  

Consider some of the ingredients of a Real American compared to an Analog American:

Real Americans believe our country is uniquely special        Analog Americans believe all countries                                                                                                                 are special

Real Americans believe this is the land of opportunity         Analog Americans believe this is a land of                                                                                                             oppression

Real Americans believe in voluntary teamwork                     Analog Americans believe in forced                                                                                                                         coercion

Real Americans believe in charity                                             Analog Americans believe in                                                                                                                                     redistribution

Real Americans believe in free enterprise                              Analog Americans believe in rules and                                                                                                                     regulation

Real Americans believe in justice                                             Analog Americans believe in social justice

Real Americans believe in property rights                              Analog Americans believe in collective                                                                                                                   rights

Real Americans believe in individual liberty                           Analog Americans believe in bureaucratic                                                                                                             liberty

Real Americans believe in individual merit                             Analog Americans believe in group                                                                                                                         identity

Real Americans believe in cultural assimilation                     Analog Americans believe in forced multi-                                                                                                             culturism

Real Americans believe opportunity produces wealth         Analog Americans believe government                                                                                                                   creates wealth

Real Americans believe government should be local            Analog Americans believe locals can’t be                                                                                                               trusted

There was a time when the great majority of Republicans and Democrats all believed like Real Americans,  then came a time when most Republicans and a few Blue Dog Democrats believed like Real Americans, now we are in a time when only a few Republicans and virtually no Democrats believe like Real Americans.   

As we approach election time, ask yourself this question:

Am I about to vote for an Analog American, one who looks like the right taste, texture, color, level of sweetness and level of saltiness but is not really the genuine article?