And the Republican Party is proof of that.

government.

Blacks and Latinos deciding to vote for a candidate you don't like.

Because your lies become the new truth.

bought into the bullshit around the Iraq War.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice helped in that endeavor along with the overwhelming support of the corporate media conglomerates.

Pure and simple!

this election, they haven't changed.

They have perfected mass psychology to an art form after having spent tens of billions since the advent of television.

that Hillary was shilling for it on the Senate floor.

But you don't see news articles saying 'white people are being led into committing political hara-kiri' etc, etc.

It's condescending to talk like that about groups of people, about people of color. The backlash is justifiable. I wish Willy would delete that post. It's really awful.

That is a talking point the right uses all the time. They always say that Dems lie and mislead PoC.

Here's the thing, that same line will be by the right if Bernie is the nominee. How are you (not you) going to look getting all offended and pissed.

That OP is awful. It would break my heart if my dad saw that.

political Hari Kiri.

We have always said that the average white people supporting the Republicans are only working against their own best interests to put it mildly.

The corporate media conglomerates have literally spent billions of dollars on studies of how to manipulate the American People to buy their products and candidates.

The have perfected mass psychology to a fine art.

This is NOT a logical follow up to that train wreck of a thread.

If folks are struggling THIS much with the concept at this point, then... just damn.

were committing political hara kiri if they voted for Bernie.

Maybe I missed it.

a major difference?

Scientists have discovered the part of the brain that makes people gullible, it was claimed today. The findings could have massive implications for treating the growing number of people who fall wide-eyed for sensationalist media reports.

Professor Cristoph Morris, who led the research, said that a part of the brain called the inferior supra-credulus was unsually active in people with a tendency to believe horoscopes and papers invoking fancy brain scans. “This correlation is so strong that we can speculate about a causal link with a high degree of certainty,” he concluded.

Morris made his discovery using a brain-scanning technique called fluorescence magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can read people’s thoughts with an incredible degree of accuracy, just slightly better than chance. His results are published in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychoimagery.

When Morris studied individual neurons within the supra-credulus, he found that gullibility was associated with the activity of a single gene called WTF1. The less active it was, the more feckless people were. This fits with existing evidence, for faulty versions of WTF1 have already been linked to a higher risk of being Rickrolled and buying the Daily Mail. “You could say that gullibility is in your genes,” said Morris. “You’d be shatteringly wrong, but that wouldn’t matter to gullible people.”

The researchers described their discovery as “the holy grail of behavioural neurogenetics”. Morris explains, “It’s a real breakthrough. It means that we can fire a magic bullet right into the heart of sensationalist media stories. We can develop vaccines that stop people from buying things on the grounds that the packaging has a smiling farmer on it or that they’re endorsed by the cretin who may or may not have lost Big Brother.”

Morris has been collaborating with nutritionist Patricia Marber to develop just such as vaccine. Together, the duo found that they could completely stop the activity of neurons in the supra-credulus by smashing them with a giant hammer.

“We think that the iron in the hammers is somehow suppressing WTF1 in a way that stops nerve signalling in the supra-credulus,” explains Marber. “We might need some clinical trials to check that the hammers are effective and to work out any side effects, but you go right ahead and write your headline. Say something about Thor. Everyone likes Thor.”

“It’s not like the people who need the treatment will question it,” she added.

The fMRI scans also revealed that the supra-credulus was more active in the brains of women than in men. Evolutionary psychologist Stephan Koogin, who also worked on the study, thinks he knows why.

“Picture, if you will, a group of Pleistocene-Americans. The men are out hunting for mammoths and bears, and they can’t afford to be fooled by fake tracks. The women stayed at home picking berries or something, and they needed to tell each other far-fetched stories to keep each other entertained, because berries are really boring. Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Assuming all of this is true, and who’s to say it isn’t, I’m right.”




blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/04/01/scientists-discover-gene-and-part-of-brain-that-make-people-gullible/#.VsvSyVsrLnB

Rhetorical question, of course.

or just incredibly cynical.

to "The problem with the Negro..."

A little too close, really.

corporate media conglomerates manipulating and brainwashing the American People for at least 35 years if not more.

They know how to divide the people by race, gender, region, culture, sexual orientation, religion or lack thereof to keep a rough balance of two corporate elements in power.

They know how to play every card in the book, how to establish frames long before they're needed and how to keep them running.

They play those cards most often when someone challenges their narrow, self-serving, economic billionaire self interests and they don't give a damn about the average American regardless of race when that's threatened.

They're very good. Well organized. Well connected. Well funded. They play the long game.

he wrote that headline

He owns it

And yes, based upon voting trends amongst whites in the south, yes whites can also most definitely be misled

their highest democratic ideals in pursuit of corporate mega-bucks.

They have come to a "gentlemen's agreement" with the Republican Party to roughly split the nation along cultural lines at the expense of the peoples' economic health to the oligarchs benefit.

I recognized his interview here, in which he points out as a member of the House EVERY THING HE'S SAYING TODAY.

I also appreciate this long view (I cleaned my entire house and ran chores intermittently) of the MEDIA.

Take home message: The biggest lobby in Washington, D.C. is the media itself. Makes PERFECT sense.

This is a MUST WATCH! Have you used it as an OP?

The full documentary is available in segments...