'Blue was quite Good but can Red be Better?'

Good evening.

                While preparing to go to a wedding a conversation with my dear son turned to the definition of a Floater. Who is that person who at this present moment, is undecided to whom he should trust the running of the country. Why is he a floater? and was he always a floater? Also, is there an idealistic cause? A personal issue? A work related issue? Maybe a foreign policy issue? There are a million and one reasons why a person finds it difficult to associate himself or herself with one or other party and this is healthy for the country. I am a 51 year old Nationalist who was born Blue and will die Blue. There's a reason for this. I had experienced a 'Red rule' which  personally were very difficult years. One needed to have certain 'attributes' for him to succeed. While a 'Blue rule' was -and is- characterised by the equation: "if you work hard the opportunities will be there, and you will succeed". The 'Red rule' characterises few opportunities which are available to thousands, being delicately sieved and served in red only. This difference has always amazed me.

                Interestingly, we are now passing from an era were it is no longer easy to choose. Blue being better than Red; 'Blue was quite good but can Red be better?' This is the question a floater subconsciously submits to himself. The younger generation will need more than historical facts to convince. They will need more than rhetoric jargon. They will need more than fantasy ideas, fantasy solutions, and fantasy arguments to answer obvious worldwide problems.  We all would like to achieve these fantasy 'promises' but with such a volatile economic outlook for the next couple of years no one and I repeat -NO ONE- can even dream of implementing.

                    Floaters need the Truth. Nothing else and the truth is that blue has experience in handling huge problems. Red has no such experience whatsoever. Both his past ideas and most of his recent utterances where never ideal for the country, but just to be Red. Their recent ideas fail to instill the idea of change but only a perception of a change for the sake of change. Floaters need the Truth -not a half truth- or a deliberately missed "truth", but the stark naked truth... because I have a reason to be 'blue' but they don't!

       Michael