Condescending Hillary fans: Man, did this pro-Bernie blogger get it right.

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18. Noam Chomsky talks about this.

The media are the propaganda arm of the big corporations and promote the corporate candidates, and promote the illusion of democracy. He's talked about this for decades. He also points out that the Founding Fathers wanted a governing elite--real estate owning white males. Not democracy where white women and black men and women and poor people, non land owning, because back then real estate was the main basis of wealth, voted for candidates.

Public relations was invented by Edward Bernays. He invented the idea of companies putting out press releases to highlight new products, deflect criticism, or whatever.

Who was Edward Bernays? He was Sigmund Freud's nephew. Freud's wife was Martha Bernays. Nephew took the desires that Freud had discovered - to be socially popular, to be sexually attractive, to feel young and virile, to be a good housewife, to be part of a group identity, or conversely, an elite and therefore unique individual - and put them to work in advertising. He quickly learned that PR and advertising could sell people anything as propaganda, whether it be a product or a candidate, using the desires of ordinary people.

There is a BBC documentary called "The Century of the Self" you can watch on Youtube. It explains how the advertising and PR industries developed.

The story that broke yesterday about Debbie Wasserman Schultz dis-inviting Tulsi Gabbard to the debates, and setting an autocratic debate schedule, and being determined that Hillary be the anointed one, should not be a real surprise to anyone who knows the media are owned by a handful of giant companies.