Sen. Sanders: Why do we continue to listen to the SAME people

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[Fred Sanders]

1. We have to listen to them because that is the only tune being played by the propaganda grinders.

[Wella]

8. +1

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[tecelote]

12. Minor edit...

"We have to listen to them because that is the only tune being played by the propaganda grinders."

to...

"We have to listen to them because that is the only tune being paid by the propaganda grinders."

[madokie]

13. Yup, right on fred, right the fuck on

I keep trying to remind everyone here that the reason that the President can't get his message our is because the Press is owned and in the pockets of big corporations who have a vested interest in things being as they are, War and lots more wars. Hate and lots more hate. Hard times for most Americans and lots more hard times for Americans.

[TheNutcracker]

2. Sen. Sanders, please run for President, so we can listen to YOU!

[INdemo]

16. Bernie Sanders could win but it would

take big bucks from us unlike Hillary who has billionaires lined up waiting for her to declare..

Sanders/Warren

What a ticket !!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Because people want to belieive that "doing something" will solve their problems.

No matter how self-defeating, useless, and stupid that "something" is.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I don't know if they want to believe that, or if

they're just force-fed these beliefs by Mainstream Media on a Military Mobilization Mission.

It' s not like they're presented with any rational examination of alternatives.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. People are hungry for news

It's plain human nature to be inquisitive and be informed. With most of schools dumping Civics and Government studies,we have a very ignorant society as a whole. Six people making the decisions as to what were and when or why we get information,we are so screwed.

[thesquanderer]

7. People may be hungry for news...

...but that doesn't mean the news programs have to keep giving voice to the people who had the worst ideas of the past.

[bigwillq]

6. K and R

[Scootaloo]

9. Same reason people in the Bomb Or GTFO group use Sanders to try to advocate for more dead Arabs

Because people, even some Democrats, love wars that they don't have to participate in.

[JHB]

10. They throw the best cocktail parties and give the best stock tips

The usual Washington answer.

[JDPriestly]

11. He is right.

And the assassination and overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran followed by our manipulating oil prices and colluding with certain oil-producing nations brought us to the War in Iraq and to ISIS. It all fits together.

Interesting book -- Endless Enemies (1984) Kwitny. Fills in the blanks on the years before the Reagan Administration. Some of the same people or interests were involved in leading the US and the world down a very dark path way back right after WWII.

[RufusTFirefly]

15. Agree totally in spirit, but with one key clarification

Mossadegh wasn't assassinated. He was imprisoned and died in jail. We assassinated quite a few other leaders though (all in the name of freedom, naturally), so the error is quite understandable.

An excellent book about the overthrow of Mossadegh and its terrible legacy is All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer.

I'll be curious to check out the Kwitny book.

[JDPriestly]

17. Thanks.

[RufusTFirefly]

14. What's frightening is how readily we absorb propaganda and think it's our own opinion.

The medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that accounts for our sense of self, is actually quite a porous region. As everyone from Friederic Nietzsche to cutting edge social cognitive neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman have suggested, the self may actually be a cleverly designed deception that allows us to be taken over by the social world. Unfortunately for us, that social world is controlled primarily by corporations and the bottom line.

[glinda]

18. I give. Because they bought pretty much all the media outlets and own most all the Companies?

[Zorra]

19. We don't. It's only all the stupid people who listen to them. nt

[woo me with science]

20. K&R