Michael - you point out an interesting problem in how we are subjected to headlines with motives behind them.
First, the commissars of education are cranking out millions of marginally educated, religiously desensitized and economically struggling future voters; potential "voters" with a "fear the right" agenda inculcated by the intelligentsia of the left, fueled with an everything-is-OK moral culture and "answers to your problems come from Washington" expectations.
When these young people start paying attention to news, they, a nation of sound-bite listeners and headline scanners, see and hear exactly what the more seasoned liberals in the media want them to see and hear. They're feeding the short-attention-span masses exactly what the masses expect.
I've railed against advocacy journalism here before, and now, with the clunking, costly education machine the Democrats are working at shoring up with more federal influence and money, we are facing a future of having more, rather than fewer, people like Bill Clinton being "elected" to office.
Until Republican leaders start challenging the left's control of education and start boldly confronting the "talking head" media stars head-on instead of being so boringly civil, the chances of getting real action on any of your list of ideas is limited.
Mr. K. |
