Mitt is running a perfect campaign [View all]

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What's wrong is that we're the ones who are not getting it so we laugh at him thinking him a fool.

1. Mitt has billionaire Superpacs who are willing to spend whatever it takes to win. So that means he fundamentally knows the game is thrown in his favor, especially after Scott Walker landed so beautifully on his feet in Wisconsin. Money definitely talks the loudest of all. It does so legally I might add.

2. He has to stump on the campaign trail so he's perceived by the ordinary Joe and Jane as really campaigning for their votes. He must go through the motions for a couple of reasons. It keeps the corporately owned propaganda media talking about him in glowing terms which mollifies the citizens and keeps them from revolting. This is important because, well, it makes it all easier for the 1% not to have to deal with the possible revolting throngs of the 99%. Keep them ignorant and mollified and they won't rise up against you.

3. If you pay attention to what he says and understand that he isn't talking to the people at all it becomes obvious who he's talking to. He's sending loud and clear messages to the 1% who are backing him. What sounds stupid and idiotic to us is pure music to their ears.

4. When he says something we think is really stupid like how he'll open up all the National Parks to Big Oil development we think he crazy and has yet again said something that will cost him the vote. But the 1% get all hot and write him another check.

5. When he says he'll do away with Obamacare the health insurance industry hugs themselves in anticipation while we just shake our heads in disbelief of how stupid he is.

6. When he makes declarative statements of how Corporations Are People Too the 1% smile and nod while the rest of us are left chewing on our own bile believing that he'll never get the vote.

7. When he implies he'll go to war with Iran and China the Military Industrial Complex goes into Paroxysms of hand rubbing glee.

Meantime that same 1% is making sure that Obama is criticized constantly for everything he does and says by the pundits while Romney is constantly given a pass and even aided by the media in their pretense that he's saying things of weighty substance and importance. Obama, who whether you like him or not is probably one of the most charismatic politicians and speakers of our lifetimes is portrayed as weak, indecisive and waffling and is constantly given 'advice' by the pundits about how he can run his campaign better. Even here on DU the trolls talk about their concern of how weak Obama's campaign is even as he basically trumps everything Romney says. The gnashing of concerned teeth sometimes shows what I think is a concerted effort to diminish and weaken Obama's image so that psychologically others will come away with disappointment in him and the Democratic Party which will translate into despondency and will keep people from voting.

In the end Romney and his campaign managers are relying on the money they're getting and the money the Superpacs will spend to assure his win and that's who Romney is really talking to on his campaign. His statements may sound insane to us, but they are loud and clear message to the 1%. The 1% who are allowed to lie with impunity in their ads and they do so at every opportunity, knowing that they're setting their carefully considered and manufactured 'facts' in stone as 'facts' in the majority of the American minds.

We may not be able to do anything about what's happening. Wisconsin is the perfect example of how a million signatures were gathered to impeach Walker, yet a million really enthusiastic people didn't appear to come out to vote for it. Note that I said didn't appear to come out. There are a thousand ways to manipulate the votes and make it look the way they want it to look. Just one of those ways is to rig the privately owned voting machines. I think the entire vote was rigged and it took a lot of 1% money but it worked. As a result the 1% are empowered like they used to be before Teddy Roosevelt and his nephew Franklyn came along. Their pockets will really open now because of the simple fact that it worked in Wisconsin. It was their first test State after the Supreme Court granted their corporations Personhood.

Money talk louder than you and I do.