Posted by UBERHIPPY on January 25, 2004 at 12:18:07:

The radical critique rejects existing culture, existing modal personality. It . . . attack(s) . . . dominant conceptions of reality by way of a doctrine of a "false consciousness" that invalidates the ideas and preferences of everyone except the revolutionary. . . . The doctrine of false consciousness . . . explain(s) why most people do not see the world as the revolutionary does, and do not want what he wants. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Reflections on Totalitarianism

I've heard an outline of a plan to oust Glenn Cunningham. The idea is to start a massive voter registration/motivation drive in the luxury housing along the Waterfront. I specify "motivation," for, as described to me, the architects of this design think that the Waterfront now comes out to vote for national elections. The goal is to create – like a sorcerer out of a vacuum – a dependable class of voters to offset Glenn Cunningham’s overwhelming advantage in Ward F.

At first glance one might assume that this is a crazy scheme to "raise the consciousness" of the relatively well-to-do so that they can realize that they are oppressed by the poor of Jersey City. Though the foundation rests on the irrational, the implementation of this concept is not intrinsically impossible. Lenin gave up on the workers and aimed his arguments at a privileged elite – the revolutionary avant-garde. Nearly a century of domination of Eurasia is pretty good by most definitions of success. Also, lacking any points of contact with reality is no hindrance to the creation of a scapegoat.

Something like this was tried in the primary campaign, given in a slapdash fashion. Cunningham was often accused of delivering the blushing Loew's to the bogeymen. Supposedly, this “issue” was intended to set the cultured quivering with rage. (As an aside, it was painfully clear that the would-be provocateurs, though posing as Newport tenants, did not live in Jersey City, for they always spelled the name Lowe’s – like the North Bergen hardware store.)

In practical terms, this latest “can’t lose” project can’t win.

Many of the new Waterfront residents are not U.S. citizens. No matter how many foreign nationals there are, count them out on election day.

Here’s how the U.S. citizens line up. After moving to Jersey City, to get a cheaper rate on auto insurance, a hefty slice of this pie continues to use their parents' (or other relative’s) out-of-state (or suburban New Jersey address) address as residence of record. Count them out, too. The overwhelming local politics mindset of the new people is complete apathy. A few years back, a pollster asked Waterfront residents who the mayor was. Most said Giuliani. (I wonder if they thought that Rudy was mayor of Jersey City. Or, if they assumed Jersey City was part of NYC.) Keep in mind that at this time Bret Schundler had name recognition even in Antarctica. It’ll take a helluva push to set in motion these steel wheels.

My impression is that most of the new Waterfront residents are more likely to visit Athens than Journal Square. The New Yorker’s Vision of the World is still in focus.

And even if inertia is overcome and the Waterfront vote picks up steam, where will it roll? It would seem reasonable to expect a large number of Barbara Streisand Democrats – just like in New York City. It's hard to imagine these people tending to vote along racial lines. Or feeling an irresistible attraction for the HCDO.

And get ready for the traditional demographics of Ward E to fall to the side of the road. Many see Ward E as Jersey City’s Hispanic Ward. It’s not likely that this would remain so after a successful Waterfront voter registration drive. By chipping away at its own Hispanic base, the HCDO will succeed in undermining Glenn Cunningham? And what will the outcome be of an Asiatic ethnic block of Jersey City voters increasing exponentially?

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: The radical critique rejects existing culture, existing modal personality.  It . . . attack(s) . . . dominant conceptions of reality by way of a doctrine of a "false consciousness" that invalidates the ideas and preferences of everyone except the revolutionary.

: . . . 

: The doctrine of false consciousness . . . explain(s) why most people do not see the world as the revolutionary does, and do not want what he wants.

: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
: Reflections on Totalitarianism

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:I've heard an outline of a plan to oust Glenn Cunningham.  The idea is to start a massive voter registration/motivation drive in the luxury housing along the Waterfront.  I specify "motivation," for, as described to me, the architects of this design think that the Waterfront now comes out to vote for national elections.  The goal is to create – like a sorcerer out of a vacuum – a dependable class of voters to offset Glenn Cunningham’s overwhelming advantage in Ward F.

:At first glance one might assume that this is a crazy scheme to "raise the consciousness" of the relatively well-to-do so that they can realize that they are oppressed by the poor of Jersey City.  Though the foundation rests on the irrational, the implementation of this concept is not intrinsically impossible.  Lenin gave up on the workers and aimed his arguments at a privileged elite – the revolutionary avant-garde.  Nearly a century of domination of Eurasia is pretty good by most definitions of success. Also, lacking any points of contact with reality is no hindrance to the creation of a scapegoat.  

:Something like this was tried in the primary campaign, given in a slapdash fashion.  Cunningham was often accused of delivering the blushing Loew's to the bogeymen.  Supposedly, this “issue” was intended to set the cultured quivering with rage.  (As an aside, it was painfully clear that the would-be provocateurs, though posing as Newport tenants, did not live in Jersey City, for they always spelled the name Lowe’s – like the North Bergen hardware store.)  

:In practical terms, this latest “can’t lose” project can’t win.<p>Many of the new Waterfront residents are not U.S. citizens.  No matter how many foreign nationals there are, count them out on election day.  

:Here’s how the U.S. citizens line up.  After moving to Jersey City, to get a cheaper rate on auto insurance, a hefty slice of this pie continues to use their parents' (or other relative’s) out-of-state (or suburban New Jersey address) address as residence of record.  Count them out, too.  The overwhelming local politics mindset of the new people is complete apathy.  A few years back, a pollster asked Waterfront residents who the mayor was.  Most said Giuliani.  (I wonder if they thought that Rudy was mayor of Jersey City.  Or, if they assumed Jersey City was part of NYC.)  Keep in mind that at this time Bret Schundler had name recognition even in Antarctica.  It’ll take a helluva push to set in motion these steel wheels. 

:My impression is that most of the new Waterfront residents are more likely to visit Athens than Journal Square.  The New Yorker’s Vision of the World is still in focus.

:And even if inertia is overcome and the Waterfront vote picks up steam, where will it roll?  It would seem reasonable to expect a large number of Barbara Streisand Democrats – just like in New York City.  It's hard to imagine these people tending to vote along racial lines.  Or feeling an irresistible attraction for the HCDO.

:And get ready for the traditional demographics of Ward E to fall to the side of the road.  Many see Ward E as Jersey City’s Hispanic Ward.  It’s not likely that this would remain so after a successful Waterfront voter registration drive.  By chipping away at its own Hispanic base, the HCDO will succeed in undermining Glenn Cunningham?  And what will the outcome be of an Asiatic ethnic block of Jersey City voters increasing exponentially? 



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