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pan6467 · 01-05-2006, 12:12 AM

For years Limbaugh and the talking heads on the right have continuously attacked the 2 most important assets to the long term future of this country.

The press and Eductaion.

They attacked the press enough continually calling it biased to the point where ANYTHING the press does is wrong. To the point where the press covers stories up, waits and sits on important information, and has become fluff and more worried about pop culture than pure news.

This works to the Right's advantage and government in that these people have effectively destroyed the media and any news brought out is questioned and fought about and the facts become obscured to the point government gets away with anything it wants to.

The attack on education is even better. Call the schools liberal, make them pariahs and then force them to teach your agenda without question or be attacked, lose funding and get just enough students riled so that again facts are lost and obscured and perception dictated by the talking heads and propagandists become reality.

But I still maintain my optmism and believe that people will have enough and the penduulum will swing back toward center, however, I am pessimistic in that I truly believe the Right will do all they can, take away all they can and to hold the penduulum as long as they can. And only time will tell what the permanent effects will be.

01-05-2006, 12:12 AM	#84 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	For years Limbaugh and the talking heads on the right have continuously attacked the 2 most important assets to the long term future of this country. The press and Eductaion. They attacked the press enough continually calling it biased to the point where ANYTHING the press does is wrong. To the point where the press covers stories up, waits and sits on important information, and has become fluff and more worried about pop culture than pure news. This works to the Right's advantage and government in that these people have effectively destroyed the media and any news brought out is questioned and fought about and the facts become obscured to the point government gets away with anything it wants to. The attack on education is even better. Call the schools liberal, make them pariahs and then force them to teach your agenda without question or be attacked, lose funding and get just enough students riled so that again facts are lost and obscured and perception dictated by the talking heads and propagandists become reality. But I still maintain my optmism and believe that people will have enough and the penduulum will swing back toward center, however, I am pessimistic in that I truly believe the Right will do all they can, take away all they can and to hold the penduulum as long as they can. And only time will tell what the permanent effects will be. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"