Obama: Elizabeth Warren Is Simply Wrong On TPP

[freshwest]

157. Partly it's the rush for time to respond to stories, need to get ratings, and failing to reflect.

99% of what's posted ionline is taken from pundits, articles, etc. I have questions I ask myself when I read a headline and the stories.

First, what is my first reaction, what does my gut say - and why was it written that way?

Second, I remind myself that gut feeling are emotional responses, and sometimes the way they got into my gut, aren't rational. And they are often manipulated by applying the pyramid of needs.

Third, I go on the basis of what I know about the processes being remarked upon with such fervor.

That is, elections, majorities, bills, amendments, the separation of power and the limits, and think of the reasons for the bill, and the media blurb that has just been put out there for me to digest.

It really takes the drama away, but I also know, humans love drama and tend to follow the crowd. No matter how hard they shriek they are such pure individualists, or the member of some group they consider superior to others, they are following a crowd. It's nothing to be ashamed of unless their howling at the Moon hurts others.

Did they follow them on the basis of a need for themselves, or for others, as a knee jerk response, or unresolved emotional issues they have cloaked in loaded words and terms to make them justified? Or just from the sheer wreariness of resisting, or knowing there's safety in numbers even if they are illogical?

I've seen people yelling 'yeah, yeah! that's right!' on the most ridiculous subject matter, things that they would never want to see upclose and personal or know nothing about the background of, and the potential harm. And that are nihilistic, anti-social, and not solving anything.

(Pardon my run-on sentences, but at times one holds all the thought threads at once and weaves them together. It's difficult to separate them, especially if one sees them as all equal in effect.)

Fourth, I join with any knowledge I have what I've seen work and not work for the most elements, keeping people alive and letting them be free to choose, no matter what is being hyped as the new and cool thing. As we've seen that some of that is half a century or even centuries old and useless, if not dangerous to the life and limb of others. People love to be in a cult, I've seen one or two new religions spring up on DU. I won't list them because saying anything scientific or real world is, like speaking against profit, blasphemy.

Fifth, and nearly last, with my apologies as I tend to ramble as I've actually got my mind busy on a few other things as I am typing, I look to who is paying for the stories being put before us. They are designed to make us cheer or be angry or feel despair.

Who is the paymaster of the speaker? I've seen people act shocked, I tell you, shocked!!! that their media heroes interview RWNJs, warmongers, people with anti-social and anti-life agendas.

This goes to who is paying for the infrastructure of the news. That is a lot of money there, and these people are very well-paid for what they do. But there are only about a half dozen owners of just about everything we see or hear. From commericals, to music, to television and movies, there is an agenda. To waste our time, to get us to vote a certain way* or think a certain way, to accept certain things. The media is a subdivison of other business interests.

They tell their employees who they will interview, give them a bit of leeway to bring people in of opposing viewpoints. This is exactly what Koch said he would do when he lost his run for the office of POTUS in 1980. The voters didn't like his platform his ideas, maybe even him. So he said he would work his way through media, universities and all the organs of influence to get people to think his way. Think of Rush 's motto - that he would keep on talking until everyone thought just like him - in other words, become Dittoheads. With total saturation of many markets, he is still doing this daily. The reports of his demise due to boycotts are great exaggerated. Not that the boycotts haven't had an effect. But as Dick Armey said as he left Freedom Works, one of the Koch front groups, the Koch brothers were paying him. He didn't depend on advertising, and the losses from that didn't affect him, but played havoc with the radio stations he was on, having bought a large block of time every day and his spiel was re-run all day on the weekends.

Alex Jones, who's fawned over Reagan, the John Birch Society, Ron and now Rand Paul, also 'really likes' Ted Cruz. And this is who people believe is telling them TheTruth©!!! and tells them that anyone who disagrees, is part of the problem. His disdain for Democrats as what he calls 'Fabian socialists,' his call for Libertarians to infiltrate Occupy as they were speaking against the sacred cow of capitalism, and his inability to utter 'Democrat' without a curled up sneer, is not objective, yet is making converts. Just as Rush said Democrats should be hunted down with dogs, there is no way to negotiate with the cult.

All of these people are being paid, and handsomely. Those who have joined the cult and speak against the 1% or TPTB, are still enabling the same when they paradoxically disenfranchise themselves and care nothing for the civil rights, as they only care about civii libertarianism, which protected the rights of women and people of color - NEVER. Yet we are the majority.

Thus their solutions are to disrupt those they don't respect, to keep that power for themselves. While Ed seems to be a great guy, he's kept on a short leash. They all are. If they won't stay on it, they will be fired, but not before being thoroughly villified so that their former fans find fault with their personality, their auxiliary views, or their words, never seeing that in so doing, they are themselves aiding the 1% with their cult.

Sixth, now I have to go, sorry I can't finish this.