RE: Bachmans husband: Gays are barbarians to be disciplined
August 12, 2011 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2011 at 4:44 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(August 12, 2011 at 3:04 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The thing that scares me is that these are viable presidential material and not a joke, are these really the pick of the republican party?
Our democracy has broken down under the weight of corporate lobbying (in other countries, this might be called "corruption"), a complicit media that they bought out and a two-party system where both are running to the right wing.
The media in particular is barely any better than Pravda from the Cold War days. It's not just Fox News and Right Wing Talk Radio. It's also supposedly mainstream sources like CNN and MSNBC. You need to listen for foreign media or watch the internet to find out what's really going on anymore, a practice the average low-information voter isn't going to have the determination to adopt.
Yes, nuts like her or Rick Perry should occupy the street corner as a pencil vendor rather than be a candidate for the highest levels of public service. If we had a media that behaved like watchdogs and not lapdogs, they might ask the pointed relentless questions to expose their lies and wrong ideas. Instead, they get treated with "deference" and are thrown softball questions with no fact-checking or follow-up.
It wasn't until 2006, when Bush's approval rating was in the crapper where it had always belonged, when a White House reporter FINALLY had the nerve to ask why he took us to war in Iraq. There was no follow up to his lie that "we were attacked", since Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, and the reporter took a lot of hell for it.
We Americans pride ourselves in our democratic values. What as that about what goes before a fall again? The recent decade has shown that we're just as susceptible to propaganda as any other nationality. The prognosis isn't good.
(August 12, 2011 at 3:39 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: “A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!'” - Lewis Black
They're starting to look like "corporate bad cop/corporate good cop".
Republicans beat the shit out of us and pump us full of fear. Democrats pretend to be on our side in order to talk us down and emphasize the need to "compromise" (which usually means caving in).
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
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