The Republican noise machine is an unmatched power.

You don’t need an army if you “own the 'truth'.” Aside from Fox “news,” virtually all other cable and radio “news” outlets are owned by businesses that profit from the Republican Party’s agenda.

I’ve lost all respect I’ve ever had for the Democratic Party and their unwillingness to do battle against some really bad guys who are in the business of destroying us. Yet, doing battle against those who own the outlets that distribute propaganda seems to be a losing proposition.

The poet, T.S. Eliot, said, “This is the way the world will end. Not with a bang, but a whimper.” I don’t know about “the world.” But it sure as hell seems to be the way in which the American Empire is ending. The propagandists, from Fox, to Limbaugh, to all the other peddlers of crap are winning. And they’re winning big.

I guess it really comes down to the incredible stupidity of people who buy the shit they’re selling. But buy it they do. And they have no idea that in doing so, they are bringing about their own destruction. As for those of us who know better, we are probably screwed beyond repair.

So I guess T.S. Eliot was almost right. Our world may not end with a whimper. But it might end with the hatred fed into our car radios, our home radios and TVs, and the imbeciles who believe it and repeat it to us over and over and over again at the water cooler at work, or at some bar.

Is there anything we can do about it? Perhaps. But the clock is running.