We have surveyed the stifling effects of crony capitalism on
these pages many times. Once you see it,
you see it everywhere as you observe the immense flow of money that allows
about 1% to 2% of our citizen’s to essentially control our government thru the union
of big business and big government. This
is done thru corporate lobbying and funding of political campaigns but I often
forget a very important part of what is a deadly and unholy trinity; the
media.
The media is a profound beneficiary of all this money in
that they receive millions of political advertising dollars. Thus the media becomes part of this massive
machine that obfuscates our very real issues with biased reporting, both left
and right. This reporting is designed to
enflame feelings about one side or the other but not deliver any meaningful dialogue
of change. The reporting is shallow and obviously
biased; CNN highlights the evil and obstructionist Republican Party while FOX
News hammers the incompetence of the Obama administration. The reporting is not designed to uncover any truths
or help in seeking any solutions but keep our current 2 party system firmly in
place and keep the all important money flowing.
Our current 2 party system with its allegiance to its
corporate sponsors and their money and supported by a fraudulent media is
killing our country. In the twilight of
the Bush presidency the anger was in the liberal community, now as we enter the
death gasps of the Obama years all the anger is in the right wing (and liberals
have completely forgotten how much they hated George W.). But this anger yields nothing, as our country
simple careens from one corrupt and debased party and candidate to another and nothing
changes. It leaves a country where the
vast majority of its citizens remain completely unrepresented by anyone in
Washington.
Those (perhaps) well meaning folks who have their anger
stoked by the likes of Rachel Maddow, Rush Limbaugh, Steven Colbert, Bill O’Reilly
and many others truly become a “sound and fury signifying nothing.” The blind anger stoked by the media keeps folks
focused and “bought in” to the current system thru a not so subtle system of
blame. These folks don’t see the
complete dishonesty and corruption that exists on all sides and that their
anger should be directed at everyone in power and then it should foster looking
for solutions completely outside our current system. Being pissed off becomes a suckers game and
the powers that be laugh all the way to the bank in their limousines.
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