“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” – Edmund Burke
No wonder one third of Americans are obese. The crap we are shoveling into our bodies is on par with the misinformation, propaganda and lies that are being programmed into our minds by government bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, corporate media gurus, and central banker puppets. Chief Clinton propaganda mouthpiece, James Carville, famously remarked during the 1992 presidential campaign that, “It’s the economy, stupid”. Clinton was able to successfully convince the American voters that George Bush’s handling of the economy caused the 1991 recession. In retrospect, it was revealed the economy had been recovering for months prior to the election. No one could ever accuse the American people of being perceptive, realistic or critical thinking when it comes to economics, math, history or distinguishing between truth or lies. Our government controlled public school system has successfully dumbed down the populace to a level where they enjoy their slavery and prefer conscious ignorance to critical thought.
The next six months leading up to the November elections will surely provide a shining example of the degraded society we’ve become. Both parties and their propaganda machines, SuperPacs, and corporate media sponsors will treat the igadget distracted masses to hundreds of hours of lies, spin, and vitriol, designed to divert the public from the fact that both parties act on behalf of the same masters and have no intention of changing course of the U.S. Titanic to avert the iceberg dead ahead. We will be treated to storylines about race, gun control, the war on women, energy independence, global warming, the war on terror, the imminent threat of Iran and North Korea, Obamacare, Romneycare, and of course the economy, stupid.
There are 240 million voting age Americans. About 130 million will likely vote in the 2012 election based upon recent voter participation results. This means that 110 million Americans don’t give a crap about who runs this country or they’ve come to their senses and realize our votes don’t matter. Between 1840 and 1900 voter participation ranged between 70% and 82% as Americans took their civic duty seriously and believed their vote counted. Since 1913, when the politicians relinquished control of our currency to a private bank controlled by a small group of powerful men, voter participation for President has ranged between 49% and 62%. It hasn’t surpassed 57% since 1968. Now that corporations are people and our candidates are selected by a few rich men, the transformation from a republic to a corporate fascist state is almost complete. During the coming interminable political campaign you will hear about jobs until your ears bleed. I can guarantee that 98% of the rhetoric will be false. Neither party wants the American people to understand the truth about what happened to our economy and jobs over the last 100 years. It has been a bipartisan screw job and ignoring the facts doesn’t change them.
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7 comments:
long read, but powerful.
Middle class Americans have realized that it doesn't matter who you vote for. The government isn't looking after our interests.
absolutely 6:33. Parties and candidates no longer matter. The machine is up and running. It does what it does best - manipulates the laws and the economy to assure that it reigns supreme. The constitution is considered a simple start up blue print rather than the foundation. We the people know differently. Since the beginning of recorded history this has been the case with governments around the world, freedom and liberty have been won...and then lost to power hungry, greedy politicians. We will soon win it again. God willing.
this doesn't mean we shouldn't shirk our responsibility and not vote. we can still change the system but it takes work, consistant work. our vote does still count. the obama camp is depending on us being discouraged and giving up.
this is so important to get this one point across today. if we give up and obama wins you can figure ALL bets are off for our future and our childrens future. there will be no future free nation. please remember this.
We need to demand term limits.
8:31...I'm sorry to tell you, and no disrespect intended, but you are completely deceived. You think that who we vote for (or elect) REALLY means anything? I submit to you that even the Republicans (I am one of them) ignore the Constitution (they, too, implemented the Patriot Act, the NDAA, fund illegal "wars", etc.). You know, the document they swore to protect and uphold? They ALL enrich thmeselves and spend most of their time trying to get RE-ELECTED, not doing the work of the country. They haven't done anything (EITHER party) to improve the country in the last 25 years or so, unless by improvement you mean accumulating tremendous and overwhelming debt, protecting the special interest groups (often to the extreme detriment of the public) who bribe them, sending our children (not theirs, though) to die in third world stone age countries to keep the war machinery (and the corresponding profits) running. They have the blood of our children on their hands and they act like its an HONORABLE stain. They suffer nothing and sacrifice nothing, yet demand more and more of it from the working people. They become multimillionaires on a congressman's salary. Jefferson was right --- the people (that's US he was talking about) need to rise up and kill these people every once in a while (ALL governments become oppressive eventually--- its the nature of power) to maintain our real freedom. Its been over 200 years since we did that. Overdue, I would say.
Term limits and a mild "pension" not a full one for life... Years ago people represented their fellow Americans bearing in mind that the decisions they made during their brief stay would directly affect the hope for a livelihood and pleasant way of life when they left. Not so anymore. Stay for a while, just showing up gets you a paycheck and a lifetime full pension... That's a sure recipe for disaster...
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