Reply #30: It's consumerism all the way, that's it exactly [View All]

bush** was sold to us. 9/11 was sold to us. Iraq was sold to us. Terrible policies have been sold and more continue to be sold, while things like logging the sequoias and tainting our water and air go all but unnoticed down in the fine print.

A lot of Americans have been fooled by decades of clever marketing into buying this product called BushCo. It's actually the END product. Reagan, Bush I, Clinton...they were prototypes. What we're saddled with now is a corporate hegemony acting as government; glorified salesmen who don't give a damn about their customers or whether we really need what they're selling, as long as they enhance their bottom line.

Remember the Pepsi/Coke wars? Do the tactics coming from BushCo seem familiar? They should. These people didn't get into politics to make life better for you and me. They're there to make a profit. And they'll be anyone's best friend as long as people keep buying from them -- but only that long. WE know that. WE'RE the ones who aren't buying, so the BushCo salesmen don't waste their "goodwill" on us.

Only a fool would leave their child in the care of their utilities company CEO. And yet that's exactly what America has done to its children.

I don't know what the answer is; I'm fairly well convinced there's nothing that we, the ones who aren't buying, can do to stop things. We're in bargain basement conditions now, with BushCo trying to sell every last cheap bangle as a luxury item. Maybe we'll have the fire sale next. The only thing I know for certain is there's already some buyer's remorse out there, and it's going to get a great deal worse in the not too distant future. Perhaps the only thing we can do is act as educators to those who will inevitably realize they've been taken. But I think we'll have to wait for them to come to us, first.