Letters to the Editor
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There is a plan and an intention to keep your citizens ignorant.
Of course Bush has effectively neutralised his opposition. The GOP through their crazed republican noise machine have spent the best part of 50 years silencing the debate, consolidating media power in fewer and fewer hands and dragging down the level of discourse to shoolyard finger pointing 'how dare you impugn the troops' 'a general who has served his country deserves better than this' [i.e you must NEVER criticize the military] so if the military are sent on missions you don't like, tough. It's unpatriotic to have views contrary to your rulers and generals. And why exactly is this happening? simple, because the MSM has been completely co-opted into the heart of the political establishment, it is no longer the fifth estate. It does not fulfil the role that Robert Fisk so eloquently describes for it, of being in existence mainly to 'monitor the centers of power'. It's the journalism of official sources and high level Whitehouse officials, and partisan pundits and political hacks. The American citizenry have been very poorly served. As a Brit who is obsessed with your politics I will give two examples. Why is Tom de Lay considered a worthy guest on Meet the Press even after he has been ushered out of office against his will after one of the greatest congressional corruption scandals of all time. And he's a pious and christian oozing with self-righteous religiosity to boot. Oh because he wrote a book.
Why is Gingrich treated with kid gloves, when he largely tried mafiosi-style to cripple the legitimately elected govt back in the 90s with his crazed right-wing ideas. He's always the 'original thinker' the 'historian', but why does nobody say, his thinking doesn't actually produce any worthwhile goods in reality. These people are 'respectable' thugs at best and crooks at worst. Only a sea-change will show them up for the corrosive, dishonest and dangerous people that they truly are. 60 years of cold war and post cold war propaganda has left too many in the US unable to articulate a coherent case for or against any salient issue. If you want to know why your country is in such trouble, look at the institutions and what osmotic beliefs permeate them that are then transmitted to you, and then look around you to see where these beliefs have led.
There's so much more than can be said, but in a nutshell, your media is rotten to the core and it has let your rotten rulers lie to you and debase the truth. That's really devastating to the fabric of any society.