"And too often, when powerful interests fight for virtues such as "freedom", "democracy", and "our way of life", what they really are fighting for is "power", "profits", "cheap access to labor or raw materials", or "enforced access to foreign markets". And particularly when I here a conflict portrayed as a battle between good and evil, or good guys and bad guys, I suspect propaganda, disinformation, and an absence of proper historical context..."
Please tell me why (rhetorical question for the most part but, take a stab if you wish) those not served by this propaganda support the message....again and again???
Here's a very good article about how the class of Capital gets those w/o material wealth to support agendas that would seemingly be in direct conflict with their own:
tjm.org
LIE DOWN FOR AMERICA
How the Republican Party sows ruin on the Great Plains
Thomas Frank, Harper's Magazine, April 2004, Vol. 308, Issue 1847
"The poorest county in America isn't in Appalachia or the Deep South. It
is on the Great Plains, a region of struggling ranchers and dying farm
towns, and in the election of 2000 the Republican candidate for
president, George W. Bush, carried it by a majority of greater than 75
percent.(1)
This puzzled me when I first read about it, as it puzzles many of the
people I know. For us it is the Democrats that are the party of workers,
of the poor, of the weak and the victimized. Figuring this out, we
think, is basic; it is part of the ABCs of adulthood. When I told a
friend of mine about that impoverished High Plains county so enamored of
President Bush, she was perplexed. "How can anyone who has ever worked
for someone else vote Republican?" she asked. How could so many people
get it so wrong?"
I've been discussing this w/ my friends for weeks and we just don't see it. You? |
