the "ends" (strategic goal) of the marketing of the energy policy is worldwide acceptance, then the "means" (tactics) must also embrace "International Unity."
Rauch (1995) argues convincingly that hyperpluralism could well be the death of any Democracy that tries to listen to too many special interest groups. As he explains it, special interest groups (known in another era as pork barrels)
tie up increasingly more revenue, preventing through financial privation any new actions to deal with emergent problems as well as any revision of ineffective ways of dealing with old ones. And so, the government of the richest nation in history becomes too poor to deal with its own breakdown; democracy is frozen--demosclerotic (2)
It is almost as if the government becomes a marketing agent, trying to sell the most people on the most ideas. But it is a particularly American problem in which ôU.S. trained executives have a difficult time separating the customer from the philosophy in action of needs and wants. . .Customers do business with one company rather than another for many reasons besides needs and wants" (3)
The final term to be defined is ôEnergy Policy.ö Cutting through the dross, ôEnergyö in the United States means oil. And oil in the United States means the President and his family, the Vice President and his family, the National Security Advisor and her family, and the various criminals from Enron, who financed much of the
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