That’s the proof that people aren’t free, they just think they are. Since they are still looking for some Leader to tell them what to do and to save the people from themselves.

That’s not free will, but dependence on external power rather than independence from external influence.

Aaaannnnnnnddddd…..Yanukovych is gone.

And why should I want to have anything to do with a movement that was invented or inspired by Marx?

There is a lot of truth in what you say. The Democrats have perfected a “Marxist-method” of operation, effective because they control almost all the means of cultural influence. As you say, this accounts for the apparent (but maybe unreal) disparity in “competence” between them and Republicans.

But it does not account for the kowtowing and unnecessary, bizarrely illogical things Republicans do.

The following could win me a tin foil cap, but here goes.

As part of their Marxist-method of operation, the Left uses blackmail on Republican politicians: honey-traps, drugs, money, you name it. These blackmail things (mostly) don’t work on Democrats, whose constituents don’t care about those things, and who are protected by the cultural levers they control.

But they work perfectly on Republicans, whose constituents care very much about personal morality and character, and whose slightest flaw will be turned into the crime of the century by those who control the levers of culture.

They do live in a separate universe. One where they’ve been convinced by media and pop culture that people free to think and say what they please is the problem.

How do you get people to believe such a nonsense idea? You do it the same way Madison Ave sells goods and services, through marketing that employs peer pressure ridicule toward anyone out of step with what’s said to be fashionable and hip.

Maybe a better description of the low information voter is that he’s a hopeless conformist to leftist thought for fear of being out of step and out of fashion.

All this explains why conservatism and the republican party have ideas that simply cant even be examined by the hopeless conformist. Their ideas have been made the equivalent of a Members Only jacket that no fashionably conscious person would be caught dead in in 2014.

The MSM is like the Berlin wall, set up not to stop invasion but to keep the citizens captive within. Fox and the internet are like a gigantic gap in that wall, through which the citizens are fleeing. “Voting with their feet,” or in this case, with their hearts and minds.

This is why in recent days the first action of despots in trouble is to shut down the internet. It’s not just a tactical decision to deny the opposition the ability to organize. It is a reversal of whatever tiny freedom the people were allowed in order to remain docile. A freedom “taken too far” in the view of the dictators.

They are clamping down to re-establish the narrative that “there exists nothing outside the state.” Just think of the aftermath of Tiananmen Square.