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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 1SFG who wrote (9856)	1/2/1999 3:00:00 AM
From: Andrew Martin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

"The People said 'no'"...with the same mass-media induced mindset that has produced Beanie Baby mania. Rest assured, in 2000 those same folks will be voting for whomever the media favors in their now famous election eve "Polls". You should bear in mind the Senate was originally chosen by the respective State Legislatures as a means of protecting the upper house of Congress from influence by "the popular arts". It's not that the public is against Republicans they are just sick of this national disgrace and have bought the hype that they can stop it by protesting Clinton's critics. Once this ugly spectacle is past the blame will go right where it belongs, on Bill Clinton -and those who would twist logic and reason to support and thereby enable his behavior. Of course, the media will likely just blow off his impeachment/trial like they did the SE Asian massacres of 1975-'79. It will be left to the normal folk to defend themselves with such logic like: "Hey, it's not 'imprisonment' per se he gets the weekends off and is allowed out on furlough. You can't compare him to a regular criminal. It was politics and everybody's guilty. He just got...blah, blah, blah...blah blah". If the popular logic of the polls is "don't vote for a loser" the moral logic of impeachment is "don't side with a loser". The people will catch on -when they can no longer deny it. Bleating sheep, or as Plato described them in The Cave -the "gorgei". Once they turn around and see the puppet masters at work they rebel out of shame. Some chose enlightenment but most go back to the comforts of self-delusion. Nothing new. If the media couldn't control people's minds they wouldn't be able to sell their sponsors' crap. Nothing like priorities.