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Ken Harris of the Shreveport Times echoes a theme often voiced in this forum by Lew...

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LewWaters · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:42 am Post subject:

Could it be that people are finally waking up?

I sure hope so and if they are, they stay awake this time.

For too long the blame America first leftists have been eroding our liberties and dragging America down into the mud.

As the headline on Drudge said this evening covering Guiliani's counter attack on Hillary, "It's On!"
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Anker-Klanker · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

Dang, that article is GOOD! It's both elegant and eloquent because the message is so obvious and so simple. But it won't make any difference at all - few will read it, and few will care; truth is no longer a valued commodity.

I'm sorry if I'm unusually pessimistic these days, but what I see going on is profoundly disturbing to me. Democrats (and their enablers) have truly mastered the art of propoganda within the context of our current culture.

Traditionally, political accountability was administered on two levels and time frames: 1) every two or four or six years at election time by the electorate, and 2) day-to-day and week-to-week by the press (or the media).

The media as we all know is abjectly failing to fullfill the accountability role for the Democrats; they have almost unanimously shifted into a full-time propoganda machine for the left.

The electorate? We've developed a culture where survival - for the individual and the group - is no longer anywhere near the top of priorities; in fact, it's near the bottom. Instead, we have a culture that is obsessed with entertainment value to fill in our leisure time. The drama, conflict, and "survival" depicted in movies, sports, video games, talk shows, rock concerts, etc., etc., is now more important to most people than what is going on in the real world. And movies only last two hours, sports at most about 3-4 hours, and talk show segments and video games only minutes.

Democrats seem to understand all that, and with their media allies, are exploiting our totally superficial culture for all it is worth. Accountability, truth, etc., just don't matter any more in this culture (at best, only "zingers" or "gotchas" for "our side" seem to matter, i.e., most people appear to see political and ideological conflict as a game). Republicans, and particularly so-called Conservatives, sadly, don't seem to have a clue about this new reality. And, as I see it, this situation is not going to change unless, and until, some disaster shocks us back into thinking that individual and group survival is more important than entertainment and/or gamesmanship.

Wish I had a more optimistic view of "things" right now... Am I wrong? I'd like to be convinced I am.

LewWaters · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject:

Anker, while we all know the media today has beome liberal and is little more than a propaganda outlet for the left, an alternate media is thriving across the land.

Sites such as this, FreeRepublic and hundreds of thousands of bloggers are spreading the truth a little at a time.

The outrage shown over the anti-Petraeus ad, forcing even sKerry to state it was "over the top" shows me that we are reaching people and hopefully, waking them up.

I cannot fault your skepticism, but rest assured, we won't sit idly by this time and allow them to get away with their anti-American antics.

Think of it this way, there is a definte reason that even the normally cooked polls show support for the war on the rise, while the newly elected leadership of Congress drops.

I encourage all that have something to say to register at any of the multitude of blogger sites (several are free) and state your mind. People are watching and reading. Don't let the propaganda machines of the left convince you that we haven't made a difference.
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