[*Quotes/highlights*:] “This section continues the exposition of this incredible phenomenon of decades-long & increasing intentional misrepresentations used by one party [Republicans]…” []
]“…[this incredible phenomenon of decades-long & increasing intentional misrepresentations used by one party] representing a tiny segment of the electorate [the Filthy Rich] to weave a fabric of falsity over the eyes of the American public.”[
[] “Similar to a hypnotic trance, [this fabric of falsity] is a widely accepted but unreal & mostly opposite mental state acting like a filter to reality, blocking out the truth & substituting a fantasy quilt woven of verbal constructions.” []
[] “…so that [these constructions] will become acceptable substitutes for reason & honest perception in a population which has also been intentionally burdened, stressed, & busied thru policies intended to keep them submissive & fearful.” []
[] “This coordination of policy & mantra is a strategic effort, emanating essentially from a sliver of the population, as a terrified reaction initially to a rapid series of popular developments…” []
[] “…& mass movements with global reach, with the apparent power & possibility of overthrowing a multigenerational structure of power, wealth, privilege, & dominance.” []
[] “The acceptability of this substitute narrative was shaken only in recent decades as it collided dramatically with the system that it had spawned, exposing its roots in the minds of a class—the wealthy among us, only…” []
[] “...[The acceptability of this substitute narrative was shaken only in recent decades as it collided dramatically with the system that it had spawned, exposing] its utter lack of foundation in reality.” []
[] “I talked about the 50-year Republican campaign to convince the media & the American people of certain truisms that had nothing to do with the truth,...” []
[]“It’s quite a story what a campaign it was, involving such things as getting people poorer & poorer, requiring them to work longer hours & so on so that they would have less time to think about things.”[]
[] “It included other elements such as the way in which people’s minds were either stressed or made busy, & also the way they wore down the American people’s resolve to fight back against injustice.” []
[]“The Republican untruth, no matter how contradicted by observable reality, was endlessly repeated in the exact same way, by each & every Republican.”[]
[] “Pounded home in this manner, the ‘obvious truth’ would eventually take root, sadly, without fail, for lack of anything else countering it able to be remembered.” []
[] “Since [Democrat's] motives were not to enslave, their instinct was to respond, for their part, with reason & explanations that step by step delineated the causes of things.” []
[] “However, all those words could not be remembered or take root in the minds of the befuddled masses, surrounded by such a barrage of an organized, disciplined ongoing assault of ‘talking points’ against them.” []
[] “This precarious mental state left people defenseless against the major thrust of verbal repetition, comprised of simplistic, simple-minded, irrational, then increasingly irrational,..” []
[] “…[incr irrational,] but perfectly concocted verbal phrasings that elicited the precise proportions of fear, apprehension, uncertainty, feelings of paternal comfort & of being approved of,..” []
[] “…unimpeachable direction, comprehensive reinforcement & support, pleasing reward, & congratulation so as to manage, direct, & control the populace.” []
[] “There’s something really wrong when you have a media that doesn’t have the ability to reason enough to point out the irrationality of these concocted untruths.” []
[] “For [these concocted untruths] are broadcast endlessly, repetitively, over & over again, by one after another of Republicans, whenever they get on TV, whenever they get on the radio.” []
[] “Then [these concocted untruths, disguised as "talking points"] are repeated by their lackeys in the media, like Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, or whatever” []
[] “…without clarity on events & in particular who’s at fault, & when the waters are muddied & any talk of specific people responsible is covered in social niceties…” []
[] “…[when any talk of specific ppl responsible is covered in social niceties] & generalities [alone are given] with relevant details only in the fine print, well, people are hamstrung in their ability to do anything to right any wrongs.’”[]
[] “…can’t we make a comparison as to who a better party is, what group is more trustworthy based upon twelve percent of the most corrupt being Democrats & almost ninety percent being Republicans?” []
[] “Does that not sound like the one party made out like bandits & this other guy, a Democrat, was in the room at the time? Or do you still believe that the lesser of two evils is equally evil? Pshaw.” []
[] “…do we just, as media, cavalierly toss out clichéd thoughtless truisms as if the masses don’t matter...as if they are not real & thoughtful deciders in our collective drama but merely pawns to be placated or riff-raff to be kept down.”[]
[] “There’s been an erosion of rationality, & it’s not just of regular Americans. It’s also of those Americans who are in front of us on TV, soothing us with comfortable truisms, which I think many of them half believe.” []
[] “The result is a situation where it is doubtful there is much reason involved in what is told. Hardly any common sense or thought into it, it is as if the scripts are cobbled together by computers from random clichés currently about…” []
[] “In the example of bribes paid to politicians, & the Abramoff one is typical, isn’t the media’s take on it slanted? No doubt they would want to derail public anger toward the masters of the troughs at which they feed.’” []
[] “…the far bigger ‘bosses,’ if we can call it that, of Democrats is the ordinary folks, often, as in the issue-oriented organizations...those ‘special’ Americans seeking to be heard thru unions & groups whose concerns are education,..” []
[] “…the environment, the elderly, public health, liberty, justice, civil rights, consumer protection, world peace, integrity of government, media accountability, the welfare of the helpless & the poor, & so on.” []
[] “…for the Republicans, who are receiving the tenfold amounts & are virtually exclusively funded by corporations...their entire paycheck paid by the rich folks...the media implies that these folks,..” []
[] “…[media implies Republicans,] miraculously defying human nature, are actually going to go out there & day after day point out the corruption in America that is ever the product of this bloated elite, their *sole* benefactors.” []
[] “…however inconsistent with common sense these insinuations & outright assertions from the media, when you have something that’s repeated over & over again, mantram-like...man!” []
[] “Especially if you’re in a confused state, or a stressed state...[the ever repeated untruth is] gonna be the only thing you can think of when you’re coming up with opinions.” []
[] “And these nonsensicals are so perfectly knitted into the blanket of that matrix that they’re both mesmerizing & invisible, therefore unchallenged, even by the pundits. They are even, by rational argument, *unchallenge-able*.” []
[] “Bush would never give an answer to the question. It would be used like a jumping off point to say what he really wanted to say. It had the intended effect of distracting the viewers from any clear thought on the issue or subject.” []
[] “Here we have politicians, who are always telling us what the truth is, but who will not answer our questions so we can add our own thinking to it. We are prevented from coming to our own conclusions, so also making our own decisions.” [] sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…
CW22Q 18/51
[] “…it is sort of like a coordinated chanting. It doesn’t matter what the issue or topic is, from the GOP side you just keep hearing the same phrases about it—phrases intended to replace reason.” []
[] “…Republicans are using any question, as in a television interview, as a launch point into a rehearsed nicely knit together, truth-sounding, package of untruths.” []
[]“…this omnipresent repetition of phrases in response to questions...This chanting of untruths instead of having rational discourse, when people are hearing this year after year & even decade after decade, what does it do?” []
[] “Well, it adds to the smokescreen of confusion & misinformation that was effectively castrating & making Americans easily manipulated to whatever end the Republicans wanted.” []
[] “…especially if [those slogans are] combined with a lot of misinformation which challenges the facts on everything, when everything is turned backward & they’re lying about everything.” []
[] “I remember a time when facts were not so much in dispute so there wasn’t such a huge divide btwn Democrats & Republicans about what the issues were. What was debated could then be what you do about those commonly acknowledged problems.”[]
[] “…this confusion over the issues has birthed an increasing polarization of opinions over the years about what the issues are. You see, we’re being told by some Republicans that there’s no global warming going on.” []
[] “…this method of reporting was actually debated when it started to happen. There were more seasoned journalists who were pointing out, ‘Hey, this is not giving equal time!” []
[] “…you’re easily manipulated. You’re standing there. Now if you’re just standing there not knowing what to do, & somebody starts pushing you in a particular direction, you’ve got no reason not to go in that direction...” []
[] “…[somebody starts pushing you in a particular direction, you’ve got no reason not to go in that direction.] if you don’t have any ideas about what the truth is, you can be told anything.” []
[] “The American public believed this truism that managed care would lower overall costs. They missed the part that they would not benefit from lowered costs, that lowered costs meant profits that would go into unseen hands,..” []
[] “…[unseen hands] who would then go even further in denying medical care & increasing overall suffering & tragedy so that they could gather even more booty.” []
[] “…when the Republicans need a change of public opinion or want people to believe a particular thing, the Big Lie is employed; in its repetition it makes it possible to control.” []
[] “Republicans can keep it simple & be that much more persuasive. There can be no disagreement or confusion about an aim so singular, so clear—to benefit themselves & the people that are paying to get them elected.” []
[] “That [singular aim of benefiting themselves & the Filthy Rich who fund them] keeps Republicans pretty consistent & gives them a lot of solidarity.” []
[] “Good examples of this acting in lockstep abound in the last couple decades. We currently see Trump’s hold on the Republican Party, even when out of office. We see their solidarity again & again, even in standing firm against the truth.”[]
[] “We might recollect how few Republicans accepted Biden’s win/ Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in the time between the voting & Biden’s inauguration. Some still maintain that lie.” []
[] “With Trump beating the election-fraud drum, very few would even acknowledge the election’s actual outcome. They attained solidarity in the Big Lie. That is what gives them their gains despite their corruption.” []
[] “I saw this increasing corruption of Republicans to the point of it becoming overt & blatant in the last 20, 30 years...the fall of “obvious truths.” []
[]“By this I mean [Republicans have] become so arrogant & callous in their lying & corruption they have become careless in hiding it. & now it’s as plain as day.”[]
[] “…this viewpoint that Republicans are an owned & paid for subsidiary of corporate behemoths over that time became a more frequently expressed perspective...especially since Bush’s ignoble slide & abject economic & diplomatic failures.” []
[] “For anyone who has a memory, though, we see that Trump was a continuation—a treasonous, lying, larcenous, incredibly costly one—of the corruption & mismanagement of government we got with W. Bush.” []
[] “Because of Trump’s treason & attempted coup, some folks are saying it is the end of the Republican Party. In truth, that is one possible outcome.” []
[] “Yet if not [the end of the GOP], their influence is on the decline as a consequence of the Bush & Trump travesties & the ways Republican’s secretive corrupt activities were revealed in broad daylight, as a result of those two.” []
[] “Around the end of Bush’s ‘regime,’ Republicans had declined 20% in numbers, & there was talk of them becoming extinct. They had been showed to be who they are. Finally, people were starting to realize that…” []
[] “…[people starting to realize ] yeah, yeah, you can be lied to...there was a decline of “obvious truths”—a crack in the Matrix—corresponding to the light dawning & the naked Republicans that could be seen scurrying for the doors.” []
[] “Yet these payoffs [to Republicans] were small investments to corporations, relative to the benefits they would get in the changes in government policy which affected them.” []
[Quotes/highlights:] “Money—as arrayed against music, passion, & social movements—is especially more powerful in a situation where the people have been put in financial jeopardy because of the prosperity of the rich.”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “We see the fifty-year invisible ‘family’ revealed—the ‘community’ that surrounded all Americans & affected every aspect of their lives,..”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “We saw the beginnings of cultural enlightening & progress during Clinton’s term in the Nineties. In retrospect it was a colorful time; it was an enthusiastic time.”
[*Quotes/highlights:*] “*It’s a Wonderful Life* is beloved & timeless, no doubt, because it reassures an entire generation & all those who have had to give up their dreams for whatever reason that their sacrifices were for a higher good…”