dippin

It is a sad commentary on the media and the collective intelligence of the nation that a group of spin masters can so dominate the coverage of certain issues as to force the discussion to exist on a purely false basis.

And so we keep discussing the Wisconsin bill as if it was a matter of compensation even after the union has accepted the cuts and increased contributions. And we keep discussing this planned parenthood thing as if it was somehow a matter of abortion even when that is absolutely false.

Because, of course, if the issue was framed as "do you want to provide low income women with cancer prevention and STD testing" most would support it. So we have to create the bogey man of abortion to push through something that is essentially bullshit. Make it so that the frame is more like "do you want your money to pay for a 14 year old to have an abortion so her family doesn't find out she was abused" or some other ridiculous scenario which is nonsense, but that the mouth breathers will accept in a second.

Ps: Also, gotta love the Pavlovian relationship some have with the word "socialism." The founder of Planned Parenthood was a "Fabian socialist?" Oh, no! That means she was like a British social democrat! Maybe even part of the Fabian Society, that terrible organization that included such radical thinkers like Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and even Ramsay MacDonald, that old radical that formed a government with the conservative party. Can't have that!