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The media would so desperately love for us to forget that John Edwards even exists. Every time he opens his mouth, he makes them quail in terror at what he's going to say next. No one with any power or influence in this country wants to hear diatribes against corporate greed, or against corporate influence on our government's policy decisions. No one wants to have the invisibles dragged out in front of the people so they can see and hear those they'd just as soon forget.
Left with a cleft palate and barely able to speak for fifty-odd years? They'd just as soon he was STILL unable to speak. He's simply not all that important to them. A child who dies right before possibly having a life-saving, or at least a life-extending, operation? Well, good riddance. They're well rid of someone who contributes nothing to the economic engine and yet drains its resources by her very existence.
John Edwards is being made into the politically Invisible Man. The one the powers-that-be really wish would just shut the hell up. The lauded top brass of the Chamber of Commerce are clawing gouges in their custom-made desks, wishing they could simply send him to sleep with the fishes. Never have so-called "upright" citizens wished to be more like the Sopranos with the ability to make their enemies simply vanish into unmarked graves.
Particularly this particular enemy.
To affect this end, they're pouring their influence into the corporate media, hoping they can get every single pundit and talking head to agree to render him effectively invisble to the voting public. Dismiss his arguments by saying he's not connecting to the people. Ignore the fact that he's obviously speaking for a sizeable minority, if not a majority. Concentrate on the fact that other candidates are bringing in the independents and unaffiliated. Pretend that he's not harkening back to a day when the Democrats proudly stood for the unwashed masses.
The plight of the forgotten in this country isn't going to go away just because it's being ignored. The steady decline of the middle class isn't going to become a thing of the past just because they don't want to talk about it. The expansion of the ranks of the poverty-stricken isn't going to vanish overnight just because it's uncomfortable and inconvenient and they don't want to talk about it.
If John Edwards isn't connecting to all of those whose lives have been touched by the cold fingers of corporate greed, it's because all too many of those controlling the dialog are doing their level best to render him invisible and silent. Because he's saying things they don't want to hear, and especially things they don't want America to hear.
To some people it seems he's beating a dead horse, bringing up the same stories over and over again. We have to remember, this is a man who's experienced at bringing juries around to his point of view. So why does he keep mentioning the same victims? What's he really trying to say?
Even some of his supporters are starting to ask why he keeps mentioning the same things. Bringing up his father's job and the same specific victims of corporate and social negligence? It's not accident, and it's not oversight.
There's a deep purpose behind it. Make no mistake...this man knows what he's doing.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a sudden, powereful change in his message. Not at all. And when it comes, he'll be about as invisible as a column of fire.
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