I'm not for the Left or the Right, I'm for the truth, and there's plenty out there to cast doubt on the source of all our beliefs, about everything.
And it all leads back to the TV set.
Six months ago before being laid off I cut back on expenses, Satellite TV was reduced to basic package, and one of the remaining channels was LinkTV. It was kind of hard to watch it at first, being so different from network TV, but as i compared their news to what i was shown on channel 7, I was shocked and dismayed to find I had been duped for 48 years into thinking I was getting the real story on network TV. I guess it's a testament to the effectiveness of their product matching my laziness, or just a testament to my gullibility and stupidity, to not care enough about the news to even think of finding other sources, but now I wonder if that was programmed into me by them - I've certainly noticed much more clearly the propaganda and where it's coming from and I'm imagining the intent, from a Modern PR stand-point.
Like the bit on 60 minutes about how college degrees aren't worth the debt.
Or the white-washing of the Secure Communities program - just a couple nights ago, that was clearly for law enforcement and the government, not some reporter's idea of good news.
it's really like each and every story is crafted like a commercial, with a political advisor's fingerprints all over it trying to get us to see it the way they want, instead of just presenting it.
And since everyone in America has been "brain-washed" to some degree, we now have a hopeless case where people cannot acknowledge the truth because it represents too great a challenge to their identity and their peer-group's identity.
And
through it all people with power and money pave the way for their own success, in providing disproportionate campaign contributions to defeat idealogical or political foes...way far away from where they live by the way, not their local guys, but people like Scott Walker, who was hand-picked because of his previous experience with attempting union-busting (which failed, but was kept from the public record until after his ellection).
i was raised republican, switched sometime to dem's in my 20's but never voted along party lines, but after the last election, and what i've found out since, i've changed again to "undeclared" to put the dem's on warning, but since the republican's have really over-reached their mandate, in a "drive it like you stole it!" sort of way, I don't think i can ever trust them again. Especially since their tactics and agenda seem to be all about getting elected more often, damn the cost to the people.
Would you believe the healthcare debate is all about not allowing the rights to be extended to the people because once they are they know it will be very hard to retract them...? All this shouting about "obamacare" is just rich people getting poor people to go along with their way of thinking without really examining the issues. The bigger issues, like why every other big country had the balls to make healthcare a right, but we haven't.
Or why every other political party on the PLANET, even the
most conservative ones (ones that make the republicans look tame), believe in "climate change," and that we can save those poor people on the island nations if we just put filters on the poluters emissions, what they've known for over 20 years, but instead of fixing it when they could, they built a massive army of people to mis-inform the people of the United States, creating divisions that are worse today than ever before, just to protect campaign contributions and sell broadcasting space...?
We really need to take back the air-waves, because the news we're getting is effecting our beliefs, and they play on that fact, and the fact that they can control the message.
So, am I crazy? You will never know, unless you also watch an alternate news source for about 3-4 weeks. Anything - Al Jazeera English,
Democracy Now (full of leftist hippie spin but easy to catch the spin here), Mosaic (ten minute clips of broadcast news from around the world, each with it's own "spin"), but if you only get your news from network sources, which include TV, radio & print media, you are being led down the rosy path to oblivion.
and I have found out that Plato's truth is our truth:
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”. Plato
and my quote (i'm saying it):
"when you learn the talking points you become more or less immune to the spin, but it still infuriates you."
to get a better idea of just how broken our system is, in that it is contributing the destruction of childhood in the USA, please watch this to the end:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/30/dr_gabor_mat_on_the_stress
So, you can start to understand now how the labels Left or Right are really just born out of our media's culture, but the concerned citizen who just cares about a particular issue is neither leftist or right-leaning, they just know the truth and are mad about it. That's where i'm at, neither left nor right, but very angry.
lol.
