From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (Stephen Tice)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement
Summary: Debunking more elitist blame the masses nonsense.
Keywords: television, mass hypnosis, mass hysteria, mass enslavement
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:54:00 GMT
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In article <276@ininx.UUCP>, jkreznar@ininx.UUCP (John E. Kreznar) writes...
>In article <1992Aug28.194436.14810@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, 
>jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) writes:
> 
>> Our citizenry's growing allegiance to a strident, militaristic state
>> power structure is the fruit of television's systematic, perennial
>> inculcation of guileful mythology upon the American psyche.
> 
>Close, but no cigar.
> 
>To scapegoat an elite conspiracy is like shooting the messenger who bears bad
>news.  While the "messenger" in this case (a politician or a bureaucrat or some
>such) is indeed culpable, he is a mere agent.  Shooting him leaves his
>principals unharmed, and they will simply replace him with another.
> 
>The principals are our neighbors, a hundred million strong....

Hey John K. --  just how much TV do you watch?  What you wrote about
blaming the "tyranny of the majority" sounds like the same old elitist
party line (Hancock, et al), which I think you've either swallowed,
hook, line and sinker, or you're yet-another-partisan (yap) mouth.

{Flame intended, cause I'm tired of the mobocracy bullcrap, back to
 the issue...}

How do you reconcile your assertion with the fact that voting restrictions 
are still being used in America to keep part of the populace out politics?
How about redistricting which favors partisans vice independents, or the 
stronghold that the GOP & DEM parties have on the THE MEDIA.

Recall, Bush voted down the Moter Voter Bill! More than anti-democratic
that was clearly anti-independent since it also affects GOPs. And the
easiest way to handle it was just to add a clause that made specifying
party affiliation not allowed at the registration point. (Affilition
should be handled at the primary voting place, practically considered.)

I'll just bet you really think that automatic registration tied to 
ssan #'s, or weekend election, or routine handled mail-in voting are
all horrible ideas -- since they empower the people -- who in fact
have no power. But are kept pacified by junk government programs, and
junk entertainment. Who afterall pays $1.5 Trillion TAX-dollars a
year for mostly unwanted services -- enforced by law.

Lastly, the clearest fact is that the Democrats and the Republicans
are the ones who are responsible for the economic mess we're all in
and who are the true elitists. Point 1: local elections results ride on 
only 10 to 20% of =registered= voter participation (rather excludes a 
large part of the populace). Point 2: National elections involve only up
to 50% of the registered voters. 

Well, you can't have it 2 ways. Either the people who are party active
are deserving of credit for their interest and efforts in politics and
thus responsible for the results, or they aren't any more able than 
the rest of us -- and so there should be =no= restrictions on voting.

Blaming the "tyranny of the majority" is flat out wrong, obvious
from the voting issue. Just as important is an analysis of where the
money goes -- care to try to salvage your assertion on that basis.


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