Addendum: if constant open debates were allowed, things would change. As it is, debates are highly managed, constantly interrupted, and troublemakers like Ruppert and Nader kept out by the rampant elitism.
We had even more elitism in The Founding, but debate kept everyone relatively honest.
It's the media. Even CSPAN, the last bastion of public weirdness, did not air the Michael Ruppert Press Club event last Monday. That would have been one hell of an explosive debate. And will be eventually, but resistance to alternate POV is intense throughout the media, and it is well known the awesome attacks brought to bear on any politician who dares to talk freely.
Some (like me) think the awkward Ashcroft press release, all the way from Russia, on the late and bogus "dirty bomber" was a last-ditch attempt to remove the Ruppert conference from national attention, since there was not reason to announce it on that day, it could have been earlier or later, and certainly would have been more fitting if he were in the country. Even Wolfowitz said it was "loose talk".
Things like that keep coming up. |
