2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAn informed populous must overwhelm the stinking money of the Oligarch's
It's a meme stuck in my head and I'm not sure of it's truthiness, but the point was, in American elections, 99% of the time the candidate with the most money wins.
Which means that the American voter is not well informed about the issues and is EASILY MANIPULATED BY MSM's AGENDA DRIVEN CORPORATE PROPAGANDA.
However, Bernie Sander's message is resonating with average Americans to a greater degree than I have ever seen in my life time - or maybe Obama in 2008? This is a once in every few generations chance to get a 21st Century FDR with real bona fides and a life time of public service devoted to average people.
The thing about the most money wins is that we must be really heavily played to vote against our own interests so much. There's 99% of us that cast 99% of the votes and 1% or less from them. How come a 1% minority beats a 99% majority in our elections?
I talk to a lot of people and the Bernie awareness is growing and I'm doing my tiny little part by engaging with people at any opportunity, usually by badgering the bag boy at the super market. But, j/k, actually, when I wear my Bernie tee it does occasionally trigger some good conversation. The more America hears about Bernie's platform, the more they will like him and if MSM isn't going to do it, then those of us in the bottom 99% should do it like they preserved novels in Fahrenheit 951, one on one discussions of entire memorized novels. Which we could probably condense into just a few Bernie talking points, i.e. IT'S THE OLIGARCH'S, FELLOW 99%'ER!
-90% Jimmy
Note: - originally posted in GD. Locked and told to post in GD: Primaries.
marym625
(17,997 posts)K&R!
Doing the Bernie bounce!
ladjf
(17,320 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Education is motivated by service to society as a whole; propaganda is devoted to advancing the interest of a special group.
All propaganda masquerades as a contribution to the public benefit.
propaganda consists in teaching facts or opinions insisted upon by persons or groups not a part of the school machinery.
Education consists in transmitting the social inheritance; propaganda consists in indoctrinating those who are taught with a desire to alter the social system.
Profound changes must be made in our economic system if the natural and technological resources of the country are to be utilized for all. America will choose between Fascist control by a privileged group and control by the people, for the people. If the school is to serve the people, the roads of free inquiry must be kept open. Let us not be deceived. Powerful forces are seeking to destroy this freedom. These forces are the enemies of the school and of the people.
But if America must choose, it must know the alternatives and be untrammeled in its choice. Democracy implies the capacity to choose; teaching which hampers that capacity by suppressing or falsely emphasizing the alternatives betrays the democratic cause.3
The function of education is to reduce or to eliminate the effectiveness of propaganda. It is often assumed that the educated adult-one who has passed through college or university has been permanently inoculated against propagandist infection.
But observation likewise indicates that formalized education falls far short of providing enduring capacity to resist or even to recognize special pleas, emotionally based, mingling truth and falsehood.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
jomin41
(559 posts)what's what. It's just that not enough of THEM actually vote. Hopefully, Bernie will inspire them.
frylock
(34,825 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)some posters here don't, evidently.
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)Would not spell "populace" as "populous"!
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)brooklynite
(94,571 posts)Without all that "stinking money" where will Sanders get enough staff to simultaneously campaign in 10 States before Super Tuesday? Or cover a state as big a California? Speeches and rallies are inspiring to the faithful, but they don't necessarily translate to votes (see: Howard Dean).