Democratic Primaries

Are a small portion of the whole. They are noisy, repellent, sometimes even evil people, but they are not too numerous. The is analogy here is with suppressing guerrilla activity. If, as the saying goes, the people are the pond the guerrilla swims in, the classic method is to drain the pond, exposing the fish, and concentrating them into smaller and smaller and denser pockets. One of the tricks is finding the level of appeal that will strip mass support from the activists. An illustration would be the effect of Nixon's announcement no draftees would in future be sent to Viet Nam. Though the war continued on for some time, the turn out for antiwar demonstrations dropped by an order of magnitude at least --- where crowds of twenty thousand could be seen previously, it became difficult to muster much more than fifteen hundreds.





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."