Sucker punchdrunk for decades, what's going on?

[Louisiana1976]

Corporations writing laws, neocons running the Defense Dept., Big Oil defining the terms of scientific inquiry, Democrats behaving like Republicans. Rampant wingnuttery. Massive, wholesale obfuscation of every important defining collective issue of our time.

What's it all have in common, how did it get started, how did we get where we are? When did public discourse become a series of "W.T.F. moments"?

Media manipulation? It's both easier to spread misinformation, and easier to counterpunch than it used to be.

The world has become too complex? As a practical matter, our overall need for food, water, clothing and shelter; and peace, love and understanding and community haven't changed. It's as complex as you care to make it, or not.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/11/15049/810