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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (804)	9/5/2011 12:38:05 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

BOTW, re: "The problem is that most of the electorate is too dumb to figure this out--and that is what the Right is counting on and designing their campaign(s) around--so unless something changes I guess we're gona get the kind of government we deserve." I may be naive but I think the problem isn't "dumb" but rather that most people are too busy living their lives and too incurious to see through the slogans that today's "conservatives" are throwing at them. With hundreds of millions of dollars for marketing and the best spin minds that money can buy they're able to use such silliness as "death taxes", "death panels" and "failed stimulus" to change facts into fiction and create a distorted American "common wisdom". It doesn't have to be that way. At some point reality will start to erode the careful fiction that has enabled both Republicans and Democrats to serve the super wealthy while pretending to serve the average American. But someone has to put the issue directly in front of the American public...to make a fight of it that will catch the attention and imagination of a greater number of voters and bring their self interest and common sense to bear. In the meantime we have to live with the fact that so many middle and low income people are foolish enough to believe that reducing income taxes of the super wealthy, eliminating death taxes on huge estates, cutting benefits for average Americans, getting rid of unions, trying to balance budgets by cutting the wages and benefits of working men and women in the public sector, and reducing wages will somehow help them. The only person who can make that fight public enough to win it is Obama. I'd rather see him fight that fight and lose than have him go along the way he has and win. If he fought and lost at least he'd begin the process of eroding the fictions that have held us hostage to a false reality for decades. But you have to wonder, is there anyone out there with the status and the courage to fight that battle cause it looks like Obama doesn't have the stomach for it. Ed