Too many people, unfortunately, believe everything they see on the tee vee is true.
Thus, to protect their "positions," the superrich own and operate the mass media.
The Bigot-Whisperers of the RightBy Phil Rockstroh
ConsortiumNews.com
October 4, 2010
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In the colonial model, all the big dollars flowed back to Pennsylvania, and economic rivalry and state-codified delusions of racial entitlement vis-à-vis Jim Crow Laws were used to insure the working-class white majority rage at the ruling elite remained displaced -- their animus fixed on those with even less power and economic security than themselves.
This was the poisoned cultural milieu, wherein George Wallace's "segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever" demagogic dirt kicking caused the embedded rage of the white working class to pour forth like fire ants from a trampled bed.
In a similar manner, manufactured controversies such as the gay marriage and gays-in-the-military dust-ups of the present time have little to do with gays or marriage or the military. These issues are served as red meat to arouse the passions -- and loosen the purse strings -- of the fear-driven, status quo-enabling, confused souls residing at the center of the dark spleen of the Republican ideological base.
Although, as a rule, the Right's lies and displacements are most effective when liberals offer working people only bromides, platitudes and lectures on propriety and good taste, Obama and the Democrats, time and time again, have presented demagogues with openings the size of the cracks in Glenn Beck's gray matter.
Hence, the bigot-whisperers of the Right are provided with a void that they can seed with false narratives. They are given free rein to cloud the air and clog the airwaves with palaver about fifth columnist threats from terrorist-toady mosque builders and gays in uniform undermining morale in the ranks by belting out show tunes in foxholes and impromptu shower stall instruction on the art of hand-to-hand sodomy.
Cultures are organic in nature. Combine the elements of the scorched-earth policies of neoliberal capitalism, its austerity cuts and downsizing, plus the hybrid seeds of the consumer age -- and what alien foliage will rise from the degraded soil -- fields of right-wing astroturf.
Add: industrial strength fertilizer. And see how our garden grows, with: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin -- the mutant seed sprouted Chia Pets of corporate oligarchy.
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/100410b.html Seeing how we've got a captive Corporate McPravda at the megaphone, We Democrats need to pick up the mike and, as Rockstroy, peg the greedy tax-evading warmongering scum for what they are.