Reply #5: That's what millions of Democrats said about Ahhnold--and about Ronald Reagan

[ProgressiveEconomist]

IMO there's something about television that makes many viewers forget about their own experiences and life struggles and enter fully into whatever fantasy world the broadcasters are trying to create.

And IMO if no Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich is given equal time to deflate these fantasies, millions of viewers will succumb to them. And even after they have suffered decades of real-world harm to their personal situations, they will remember fondly the TV characters (like Ronbo) who destroyed their lives with "war" for corporate profit, huge payroll taxes ostensibly for "Social Security" but actually to fund income tax cuts for the top 5 percent, offshoring of their good jobs by deliberate public policy, etc.