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In reply to the discussion: I will tell you why Maddow's "Hubris" aired NOW and not back then. And you won't like it. [View all]Veri1138
(61 posts)"Hubris" is the feel-good message. PR flack. Propaganda. It gives outrage and a forum for people to vent their frustration.
Before returning to what they were doing before.
There was a mini-series called "Amerika" back in the 1980s. The plot was Cold War propaganda and a little bad science fiction. However, there is a telling scene in there. The Soviet occupiers would allow young people to gather and engage in hooliganism. As was explained in the show, the Soviet occupiers would allow such behaviour as a control mechanism so that young people could vent their rage and frustration at the Soviet occupiers before crushing the young hooligans. While the status quo was maintained.
Think about OWS and the Right's response. The Republicans, Tea Party, and Libertarians cheered on the crushing of OWS by the government. The very same government said Republicans, Tea Party, and Libertarians say is Big Brother and a danger to our freedoms. How is that for psychotic. The government, occupied by plutocratic collaborators, sent The DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and other agencies to the banks. Two months before OWS even had a protest. To begin planning the management of the OWS protests.
Meanwhile, Liberals got to feel good that something was being done. That "consciousness" of inequality was thrust into the spotlight - very effective management of PR by the media. The results? Nothing is ever done and the plutocratic occupiers can be satisfied that another management of a threat was successfully accomplished while Liberals got to pat themselves on the back and say they did something.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party was trying to figure out how to turn OWS from a spontaneous - as opposed to a corporate sponsored political movement (The Tea Party) - and co-opt the message for their own political ends - to maintain the status quo.
The plutocratic occupiers in our government successfully managed the protests.
"Hubris" is just a feel-good PR propaganda film, while true, will manage the public's perception very effectively. While nothing is done other than the production of a documentary. It will give the Left a means of venting their feelings. Before returning and voting Democratic, straight party ticket, lest the Republicans win.
Nothing in Washington, D.C. (I like to call it District of Corruption) will change. You will vote Democratic lest the Republicans take back Congress and The Presidency and further destroy America. Meanwhile, the Democratic Good Cops will be providing cover.
The only true "protest" by Democrats are when they stay home on vote-night because they feel dissatisfied with their leadership. Meaning a Republican win. The plutocrats will still feel safe at night.
Realize that you and Main Street are not wealthy enough to plan for a decade or a few decades. You are too busy trying to survive, daily. To think that far ahead. Your plutocrats, however, have the wealth and security to do so. To plan for the future. A future that secures theirs and their friend's and families futures. Ensuring that a few - ten, twenty, and thirty years from now - will still be in control.
"Hubris" unintended consequences of allowing the Liberals to point out that criminality was engaged in; to provide a means of venting their frustration, of allowing Liberals to point out they were right all along. Is just part of your futility.