Blame the Media as much as anything! If we had a Free Media

[truedelphi]

If we had a free media, this would not be happening.
Our media was our Fourth Estate. It prevented us from being sold down a road of slavery to Corporate Interests.

When the Nixonian war interests were too much for the soul of One Daniel Ellsberg to bear, and he broke with his employer the Rand Corporation to release the Pentagon Papers, eighteen various newspapers and news orgs promoted that release. Despite the serious possibility of jail time for the editors and owners!

Yet who on this board has turned on any M$M channel in the last four years and heard our Talking Heads breech a discussion of how decent Single Payer Universal HC would be?

Surveys show that the ubiquitous ad placements for various Bug Pharma products are not effective with consumers - but the real reason for those ads is to keep the local news stations from running with the truth about health care. In exchange for X amount of 100's of thousands of dollars, the news stations only promote the Big Medical Industries' side of the story.

If we had a free media, they would have analyzed the Sound Bytes that Obama used as he switched us from the USPHC that we all hoped for when we voted for him to the absolute disgusting swill we are now being offered.

Had we a free media, then the very moment that Obama switched from his 2004 Senate Race slogan of "We will have Single Payer Universal HC in this nation, as it is the only solution to the problem. And all we need to get there is a majority in the House and the Senate and a Democrat in the Oval Office" to his ridiculous illogical "We would be able to go for SPUHC if ONLY we did not already have another system in place," the media would have parsed that statement for the sad mindless piece of rhetoric that it was.

By tearing that statement apart, and showing how ridiculous it is... the Media might have SHAMED Obama into being a President-Statesman of the caliber of FDR or LBJ.

After all, either the system is broken or it is not, but if it is so broken that we need to spend seven months talking about fixing it, then we should not be working within the broken system!

However there are no longer any Ben Bradlees or New York Times editors doing their jobs of telling the truth. Instead the 'Corporate Person'-owned news conglomerates feed us the message of how what the Real People in the USA want is to rally around the flag as Tea Baggers!