On the importance of Brainwashing
This post is 100% political today, you've been warned.
Everyone thinks that technology will come to destroy us all, and they're right. It's already happening. Except that the technology that will destroy us isn't vicious cyborgs or self-aware computers, it's cable TV and the Internet.
Cable TV gives us the 24 hour news. Channels like Fox News which serve only to brainwash people. I'm not speaking flippantly, I'm not using an analogy, I'm talking about actual brainwashing.
All Fox News does is spread hateful misinformation to a captive audience in order to reprogram the way they think. People who might otherwise be reasonable are being indoctrinated by the likes of Sean Hannity to believe that Obama is a not only the most leftist president in our history, but also a Muslim sent here to destroy our country from the inside.
This takes conspiracy theory to an insane new level.
The Internet allows these opinions to spread to all corners of humanity and widens the net of the brainwashed. Soon, huge sections of the electorate are so frenzied that they either elect their own loons (the tea party) to government, or their elected officials have to behave like loons to keep their jobs.
What happens is that the only truth recognized is the "truth" that they have been brainwashed with. Facts don't matter, evidence doesn't matter. It becomes an ideology. In many ways it's not much different than radical Islamic fascism.
It's to the point where you can't even talk to these people anymore let alone have a reasoned debate with them. They are the equivalent of a child who covers his ears and shakes his head when he hears something he doesn't want to.
Is Obama a secret Muslim? No. Is he trying to destroy our country? No. Is he a great president? No.
He has a been a mediocre president. His numbers (like jobs created, unemployment, etc...) only make him look better than mediocre because he followed one of the two worst presidents in American history.
But you can't have that debate. You can't argue the merits of policy. Obama must be pure evil and the other side must be pure good. That's the world we live in now. There are no more shades of gray.
Politicians always disagreed, but they were able to compromise. That was because the Democrats were just slightly left of center and the Republicans were just slightly right of center.
Now, the Republican party has moved far to the right and the Democrats (because they lack courage) have moved to the center and even a little to the right of center.
Many of the principles of ObamaCare were proposed by Lincoln Chaffee, Bob Dole and a host of other Republicans in 1993. It was a compromise plan to the plan President Clinton had to reform health care in 1993.
Todays Republicans call it socialism.
Cap and trade was a concept thought of and fought for by Republicans. Democrats hated the idea at first.
Todays Republicans say it will destroy jobs and proves how radical Obama is.
The Republicans today argue that Obama is negotiating with terrorists because of the Iran deal.
Yet Ronald Reagan gave Iran arms in exchange for hostages.
Except Todays Republicans believe that never happened, because it doesn't fit into the brainwashing. Only certain information is allowed to get in.
Most of the best ideas come from a moderate position. A position in the middle. And we used to be able to get there. Republicans would suggest a plan slightly right of center, the democrats would offer one slightly left of center, and they would meet in the middle.
Those days are gone, and our country becomes a little bit worse each day that goes by.
If America's best days are behind us, it's not because Obama is destroying America. It's because the citizens are brainwashed and the politicians are no better than the people.
It will inevitable lead to the downfall of this country and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Everyone thinks that technology will come to destroy us all, and they're right. It's already happening. Except that the technology that will destroy us isn't vicious cyborgs or self-aware computers, it's cable TV and the Internet.
Cable TV gives us the 24 hour news. Channels like Fox News which serve only to brainwash people. I'm not speaking flippantly, I'm not using an analogy, I'm talking about actual brainwashing.
All Fox News does is spread hateful misinformation to a captive audience in order to reprogram the way they think. People who might otherwise be reasonable are being indoctrinated by the likes of Sean Hannity to believe that Obama is a not only the most leftist president in our history, but also a Muslim sent here to destroy our country from the inside.
This takes conspiracy theory to an insane new level.
The Internet allows these opinions to spread to all corners of humanity and widens the net of the brainwashed. Soon, huge sections of the electorate are so frenzied that they either elect their own loons (the tea party) to government, or their elected officials have to behave like loons to keep their jobs.
What happens is that the only truth recognized is the "truth" that they have been brainwashed with. Facts don't matter, evidence doesn't matter. It becomes an ideology. In many ways it's not much different than radical Islamic fascism.
It's to the point where you can't even talk to these people anymore let alone have a reasoned debate with them. They are the equivalent of a child who covers his ears and shakes his head when he hears something he doesn't want to.
Is Obama a secret Muslim? No. Is he trying to destroy our country? No. Is he a great president? No.
He has a been a mediocre president. His numbers (like jobs created, unemployment, etc...) only make him look better than mediocre because he followed one of the two worst presidents in American history.
But you can't have that debate. You can't argue the merits of policy. Obama must be pure evil and the other side must be pure good. That's the world we live in now. There are no more shades of gray.
Politicians always disagreed, but they were able to compromise. That was because the Democrats were just slightly left of center and the Republicans were just slightly right of center.
Now, the Republican party has moved far to the right and the Democrats (because they lack courage) have moved to the center and even a little to the right of center.
Many of the principles of ObamaCare were proposed by Lincoln Chaffee, Bob Dole and a host of other Republicans in 1993. It was a compromise plan to the plan President Clinton had to reform health care in 1993.
Todays Republicans call it socialism.
Cap and trade was a concept thought of and fought for by Republicans. Democrats hated the idea at first.
Todays Republicans say it will destroy jobs and proves how radical Obama is.
The Republicans today argue that Obama is negotiating with terrorists because of the Iran deal.
Yet Ronald Reagan gave Iran arms in exchange for hostages.
Except Todays Republicans believe that never happened, because it doesn't fit into the brainwashing. Only certain information is allowed to get in.
Most of the best ideas come from a moderate position. A position in the middle. And we used to be able to get there. Republicans would suggest a plan slightly right of center, the democrats would offer one slightly left of center, and they would meet in the middle.
Those days are gone, and our country becomes a little bit worse each day that goes by.
If America's best days are behind us, it's not because Obama is destroying America. It's because the citizens are brainwashed and the politicians are no better than the people.
It will inevitable lead to the downfall of this country and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
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