KRUGMAN: "California"

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112. Done!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022619428

And you're correct - more people should see ideas like this, not merely because they happen to be something I wrote up. I just really believe in this kind of counter-programming. You start with the slow and steady and constant drumbeat - just like the bad guys did. But you splice on - YOUR message.

Remember, dubya himself said his job was to "kind of catapult the propaganda." That's what their repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating their message, over and over again, through countless talking heads on cable TV, countless loudmouths (lout-mouths?) and bullies on the radio, countless representatives at the state, local, and national level parroting the same damn blast-faxed, focus-group-tested, pasteurize-processed and homogenized talking points.

Anyone remember back to the very grim days after the election in 2000? Remember how EVERYONE with an "r" by their name, whether in office or out, was saying the SAME DAMN WORDS OVER AND OVER AGAIN - under any and all circumstances where they found themselves with cameras and mics in their faces - "well, they counted. They counted again. And they counted a THIRD time..." I saw EVERYBODY rattling off that Chatty-Cathy-pull-her-string-and-hear-her-talk blather. They all got their marching orders. They all got in line. They all studied their scripts - that went out to EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE, either from the RNC directly OR from operatives in frank luntz's office or kkkarl rove's office or the American Enterprise Institute or the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute or any one of the multitude of other cockamamie organizations funding this low-key, under-the-radar HOSTILE TAKEOVER they've been working at since reagan's day.

Gotta hand it to 'em - they saw an opportunity and they damn well made the most of it!

So what I'm saying here is - WHY CAN'T WE????????