While 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' is not generally seen as a fair assessment of commonality, anyone who conflates public figures with their private woes, is missing the mark badly. Because it's not all about us as individuals, but how we wish to be treated and will grant that to others for a common good. Or else we will have nothing to stand upon, and would be Republicans. :barf:
As I have said repeatedly, HRC is not my choice. Her style does not appeal to me, and I blamed her for a lot, but learned a lot of nuance over the last decade or so that I did not formerly have.
And I have always given her and Bill the benefit of the doubt, watching how she and Bill and Chelsea were savaged and abused to give the RW power over all of us. I saw what his vision and what her vision was when he ran for office and she became First Lady, and how the MSM destroyed it.
Like Obama to a lesser degree, Bill and Hillary's liberal views and the intentions they had when he won the presidency, were dimmed by the irrational, vicious, dishonest PR sent their way. The RW media was flexing its muscle, perfecting its use of the baleful tone applied to PBO to deny the fulfillment of the victory of the people who voted for change both times.
Do the knee jerk haters recall what was going on at the time Clinton was in office? Or the deluge of hate and the real RW conspiracy that broke loose while Clinton ran for office, the low brow attacks, and then the full media coverage of alleged affairs and the blue dress?
The legal challenges that were set into motion as soon as Bill was sworn into office, to derail his plans for rebuilding what was being lost, that HAD to be responded to, just to maintain the presidency? The malicious, giddy pronouncements of doom for Bill and Hillary that were on display in every venue?
I watched all the news shows that sprang up with the same mendacious faces we have been treated to in cable news for twenty years. I remember how the RW increased their power with religious groups, and hearing Ann Coulter on a local Christian radio station late at night, bubbling with joy over the blue dress, chortling 'We got him now!' to the approval of the 'Christian' speakers.
So much hatred, worse than they dealt Carter, but a prelude to what was done to Gore and is still being done to Obama. When I read all these charges laid at Clinton or Gore, I know the writers have been taken in. Saying that Kerry or Gore were stiff, that they didn't run good campaigns, is proof of how 'American Idol' is now politics.
I watched Gore as he ran for office, and he worked just as hard as Obama did. He flew from state to state, seeing tens of thousands every day. I saw the crowds who wanted to see a man with his populist vision become president, not to win a popularity contest, but to see their values ascend once again after 12 years of GOP rule that was designed to eliminate all of the New Deal. One of the last campaign stops showed Gore leaving the stage outside, the sweat soaking the back of his shirt, just as we saw Obama do or being rained upon, still going.
Those men had a fire for ideals, and so did the multitudes who showed up and cheered. There was nothing stiff about Kerry, Gore or Obama, and there probably isn't about HRC. We knew Bill Clinton has charisma, but if that is all that Americans want in a candidate, we truly do deserve the Idiocracy that is galloping toward us.
Those who grew to majority in the Reagan era, have little to compare that with in terms of MSM, and see the RW tone as political criticism and 'holding their feet to the fire.' We're not talking deep thinking from the media, they've been playing every psychological technique know to brainwash listeners - and those who are online.
Go to youtube or many other sites, and you will see, even if you don't click, the negative images to dismay Democrats or encourage Republicans. It's a fact that images carry much more data and are much more powerful to the subconscious mind than text or even sound. Combine text, sound, moving imagery, music, tone of voice, familiar memes from all kinds of entertainment together. as is done cable shows and youtube and an alternate reality will be embedded in the brain where reasoning cannot enter.
It's been non-stop with such memes as 'Obama the arrogant, impeach Obama, fire Holder, get rid of Pelosi, stop Hillary.' Always with an unattractive image to go straight to the gut. That people are incognizant of the subliminal messaging and think those 'gut feelings' of disdain, discomfort and hate are honestly their judgment and originate in their experience, is a huge victory for the RW and a huge loss for us.
We had an OP herein which the article referenced said that in this media environment, Democrats are spouting RW memes, and don't even realize it as it's subconscious. The media is not serving its purpose under the First Amendment to inform, but to enrage and build their team up in their viewers, while destroying fair debate and the roots of democracy itself. A look at the dynamics of how speakers are arrayed against each other the lies that are always left unchallenged, leads a thinking person to know they are being played. But too many focus on the personalities that are paid for us to listen to and watch, and don't think or refuse to admit, they are caught up in a manipulative media product.
Those who are constantly on the look out for a strong leader with a 'backbone' or 'balls' and such are ripe for the picking by the demagogues. They are the first to call the Democrats 'weak' or 'spineless,' because that is how the power is set out on MSM.
They are looking for a savior, but those who help us and save our lives are discounted as not being good enough to get their support, not inspiring enough. They demand being wooed, as if they are the center of the universe, so they want to be sold something that has never existed in the first place, or they refuse to play.
Consumer politics is a GOP game and Democrats don't play, nor should they. Because the sell is not going to respect the needs and minds of people, it is not democratic, it's just a means of control.
The hand that helps to save a life in the real world may not be the 'right' color, gender, orientation, ethnicity, religion or political leaning to our own liking. They are never feted, and would not get a vote from those who are into brand name, consumer driven thinking. We are dismissing our own selves when we dismiss them and have no right to claim we are disrespected when we don't respect each other or ourselves.
Just a few thoughts.
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is going on here?!
