by stickdog99 » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:24 pm
On the national level, the outrages and political "battles" that come to our attention and then typically end up on a slow boat to nowhere resemble nothing more than orchestrated PSYOPS.<br><br>Gore's & Kerry's election "fights."<br>Ralph Nader voters "ensuring" 8 years of Bush.<br>Anthrax care packages.<br>Wellstone's "freezing rain" plane crash.<br>"Dirty bombs" and "enemy combatants."<br>Michael Moore promoting Oprah for President and mugging with Wesley Clark.<br>Nick Berg's "beheading."<br>CIA "good guys" and intelligence agency "infighting."<br>Dean's "scream."<br>Cleland (who gave General Myers his 9/11 cover story) quitting the 9/11 Commission in disgust.<br>Milbank writing catty "news" pieces on Conyers holding important hearings in basements.<br>"Brownie, you're doin' a heck of a job."<br>"So this is working out very well for them."<br>Bird flu.<br>Mad Cow(boy) disease.<br>The Alito filibuster "fight."<br>The Dem's "keen" response to the state of the union.<br>Vilsack saying that whether or not illegal wiretapping is illegal is "debatable" and warning Dems that standing up for the Constitution and the rule of law is "a political trap."<br>Zaqawi's supposed glorious death<br>immigration "reform"<br><br>Democrats continually holding their tongues and quietly praying that Republicans will somehow get trapped in their own excrement while mass media assures us that Republican shit smells just like roses. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The insane dream that a prosecutor that Ashcroft appointed is our best hope to bring down BushCo because we pray that's how our elites politely purge themselves after binging too much.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The myth that a few crazy neocons somehow have the power to sell us all down the river against the supposed better judgment of more powerful corporate barons.<br><br>The whole game has simply been rigged from all sides. All the major figureheads and all the major pundits are coopted, coerced, directed, conned or simply planted. The "limits" of "reasonable debate" have been bought and paid for. Money talks. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>It's amazing to find the friends you can buy with small change.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Most of the recent political "controversies" and "scandals" that have been hyped as particularly newsworthy are rigged games. Most go nowhere by DESIGN. This makes any opposing audience that is paying attention to them angry, alienated and disaffected while serving to corrupt any applauding audience with the notion that the end (your "team" in power) justifies ANY means. This doesn't require a wide ranging conspiracy, just a few well-placed operatives who can influence what news makes it on TV repetitively and engagingly and what simply falls through this specific and critical crack.<br><br>In the few cases when these "controversies" and "scandals" actually have "outcomes," most of these outcomes appear to have been scripted for their psychological effect on their audience. This also doesn't require a wide ranging conspiracy, because many of these newsworthy "items" have been selected (hyped, leaked, etc) as such exactly BECAUSE their outcomes are wholly (or at least relatively) controllable. That's not to say that mistakes aren't made, nor that there are NO conflicting agendas at work among the powerful.<br><br>Perhaps a parable would be in order to help illustrate what I'm imagining. Let's say that you are working in IT for large corporation that's planning on buying an expensive new computer system and is "analyzing" three competing products for the job. One product is vastly superior to the other two, but the principles of the company have a financial stake in rejecting the superior product and guiding the "analysis" toward one of the inferior products. They hire a couple of expensive consultants to "point" the product selection process in the "right" direction, typically by carrot/stick cajoling anybody who objects and/or simply hinting that the strong preference of their superiors lies with the two obviously inferior products. Which of these three products has the least chance of ultimately being selected?<br><br>The point of this parable is simply that when one wields a large measure of power, one can often influence events in a manner that suggests collusion without ever letting more than a handful of trusted underlings/true believers "in on the plan."<br><br>Three examples of what I'm talking about:<br><br>1) Nader in 2000. The one party corpocracy he supposedly ran to fight against is now undeniably upon us in all its sickening heinousness. On the other hand, we are repeatedly reminded that his very candidacy hastened our doom.<br><br>2) Illegal wiretaps. First the NY Times sits on the story for about six months, then when it comes out, even the Democrats who come on TV to discuss the newest charges against our felonious badministration start sheepishly mouthing Repuke talking points about our supposed need roll back the 4th Amendment and separation of powers in "wartime." The fact that Bush broke the law and is trampling on the Bill of Rights and our Constitutional separation of powers shouldn't even be subject to argument, yet the media has framed a "debate" between "judicial niceties" and "hardnosed terrorist-busting."<br><br>3) Merry Fitzmas and a same old new year<br><br>Almost every time we are presented with two choices, they are both from the damned pile. <p></p><i></i>