Juan Cole: The Cheapening of American Politics: Why Did Obama Reward O’Reilly With an Interview?

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34. Why???

Here's why: The Neo-Dems of today (the infiltrators of the party after Jimmy Carter's defeat) and who now control the party, want all the focus to be directed upon those ''crazy-ass Republicans'' rather than upon themselves. That way they can be cast as the responsible adults in the room, and with this status they can command the lion's share of the corporate largesse. Once having gained such position, they can now accomplish in ''rear-guard actions and weak-kneed compromises'' what no Republican ever could with a frontal assault on social programs.

Quite ingenious actually. Of course it doesn't take elaborate planning to fool most Americans owing to their terrible educations and knowledge of their own history. As well as their basic inability to think independently, again due to their terrible educations.

Then you couple all that with a goodly sprinkling of mass layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies among the middle classes - allowing bankers to steal retirement funds with impunity -- giving war-induced PTSD drugged-up cops free reign to go upside the head of grandmas and/or bashing the heads of young people whether its for wanting to use marijuana to cure cancer, protesting for being mass-surveilled, protesting another goddamned corporate war, or because they've discovered that they're now slaves because their degrees ain't worth spit but their education debts will follow them to their graves.

Then you plaster all that over Youtube and the various social media outlets (all of which we now know are being monitored) -- and people can be made more malleable and accepting of diminishing returns on the social contract. A ''cat food once a week ain't so bad'' mentality begins to take over.

These Neo-Dems, these kinds of minds, it doesn't really matter what label you slap on the outside, they're actually pretty damned barbaric really. They're unevolved humans. Lacking an ability to connect with society's unwashed. Those of us who built it all. They're those who have little or no ability to empathize with others -- they act almost exclusively in favor of self -- and who live almost solely for plain 'ol greed. Clearly some of them are better at pretending and masking what they're doing than others.

- These problems can be solved, but it requires that everyone open their eyes first.....


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