Political Propaganda and Voter Choice

This Republican administration has conceived a scheme so wily and Machiavellian, it's a pity Bush is ineligible to run again. These villainous thugs have discovered they can plunder the country blind, violate the nation's laws, and lie their asses off-all while governing incompetently-and get away unscathed as long as they invoke the unfailing, almighty words of "national security." And I'm not talking about Guiliani's lovely campaign pitch, "Vote for me or become obliterated radioactive dust" either. I'm talking about the classic tool of right-wing propaganda of attacking peoples emotions, only to play the dastardly juvenile game of the bratty, disobedient kid who denied taking the cookie from the cookie jar by blaming a bratty but innocent kid.

The formula is simplicity itself: If someone asks why you did something, you candidly reply, "It was necessary to keep America safe." Similarly, if you are asked why you want to do something, then you can't go wrong with "It is necessary to keep America safe" or some Fox-tested alternative, such as "It is necessary to fight America's enemies." So we praise Sudan despite current credible news of them surreptitiously doing arms deals in the war-ravaged conflict zone of Darfur because Terrorists are mean and that makes the President sad.

After all, quasi-patriotism is the best thing to happen to the GOP since the bow-tie.

It's quite unfortunate that it's socially unacceptable to just come out and publicly say, for instance, that Messrs. Dick Cheney and Rudy Guiliani are only acting when they wax patriotic and claim to be fighting our enemies and working to make America stronger. It's about as socially unacceptable as coming out of the closet, and let's face it-the rate at which Republicans are becoming gay is so prodigious that Halliburton was awarded a no-bid contract to build the GOP a bigger closet. If only America could declare that the bloated plutocrats in the White House are not even politicians, definitely are not leaders, and certainly do not have the interest of America at heart.

Let's face it-they owe their allegiance to the people and companies with whom they do business. Bush owes his so called "mandate" in 2004 to the Pharmaceutical Industry, the Defense Industry, and daddy's friends in the oil industry.

But it's virtually impossible (sorry Dennis Kucinich) for all of America to collectively, universally rebuke this administration for all of its misdeeds and public malfeasance. Well, maybe during a commercial break. What we should expect, though, is for the newly empowered opposition party to toss around subpoenas like crisp dollar bills at a D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey soiree. Henry Waxman, I'm looking at you. Are the democrats so timorous and punctilious to throw a few brickbats every once in a millennium? Hey, Democratic Chairman Howard Dean did a great deal of that in 2005 and I have yet to see a public revolt. Is our best taught mechanism for dealing with said Republican egregiousness making stentorian speeches full of righteous indignation?

America articulated its anger in the voting booth back in November; it's time that you guys start articulating yours.

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Political Propaganda and Voter Choice