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The Bigger the Lie the better. These propagandists care not a whit that the vast majority of the rest of us are suffering the results of what Robert Kuttner aptly described as Everything For Sale and more recently Thomas Frank diligently outed in his reportage of the net result of their minions in The Wrecking Crew. My horror grows ever greater as I follow the dark places that current, extraordinarily well-funded business interests are merrily plumbing, intent on again having their way with us. While rape, pillage and plunder -- the effects of the current industrial-model, profit-based health administration not-system -- are far from new, they do not improve with age. What we are witnessing is what they have done for decades
zdqrypj0824 As a matter of well-documented fact, the United States has a long and dishonorable history of facile and masterful exploitation of our most vulnerable individuals. The susceptible get stirred up, then cuddle up to their worst fears, grow and cherish their fullblown paranoia. Yes, the rampant mania we're all witnessing under the cover of August "dog-days" does appear to me to be a misanthropic Hobbesian Leviathan on steroids and the farthest side of sanity. But that is hardly the beginning or the end of it. Be ready.
We do well to remember that America has had more than our fair share of lunacy hovering around the endeavors of our better angels. If you can find a history textbook not distorted, tainted and/or sanitized by the Texas Board of Education and other hard-rightists, you'll find the stories of legions of the disaffected and heavy-hearted arriving here from our first moments on. Dissidents, malcontents, criminals (remember I live in Georgia,) religious zealots, latter-born sons powerless in the face of primogenitor and just plain folks desperate enough to try to start all over. European diseases had emptied much of the continent of earlier escort shanghai peoples; slavery dulled the entire culture to exploitation; we became expert at xenophobia; flourished by taking what we wanted from those who could not defend themselves -- most workers, all women, too many children -- until the Labor and Progressive movements, one mighty persuasive Depression and a long climb out of its depths and into world war effected changes that opened the way for a genuine middle class. Alas, reactionaries know how potent demonizing The Other is so they created one. Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Dulles brothers delivered on the fear by the bucket-full and an exhausted, distracted post-war America bought it. Whatever your opinion of the Cold War, one thing is indisputable -- it was astronomically profitable to those Eisenhower clearly warned us about.
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, I'm nice. I called back to tell him he'd reached the wrong number. (OK, the devil made me do what came next.) When he answered, I asked for him by name, dropping the "Dr." part. He shot back 'DR. Somebody!' Then he continued, "Who are you? Who are you with?? And what took you so long to return my call???" As politely as I could manage, I repeated, "I believe you have called the wrong number, sir ... who are YOU and who are YOU with?" Now he shouted at me, "I AM DR. SOMEBODY and I am CEO escort in shanghai of SOMEBODY, INC!" I graciously matched him rank-for-rank. I said, again, that I was extending to him a courtesy in returning his erroneous call, and even managed to laugh at the absurdity of it all as he hurtled the best insult he could manage -- he was taking me off his list! -- and slammed down his phone. I did not "win." But I did feel I'd made my mark for civility. 'Sides. He WAS a "doctor."
This is not how people in a civil -- as in "civilized" and "civilization" -- society govern themselves. It's also not how decent human beings should talk to each other. This IS how the schoolyard bully gets away with abuse. This is how the Aetnas and erroneous collection agencies and the Rush -- Gingrichs prevail. They corrode the private square as surely as they are doing in the public one, advancing the predation of their masters. This dark, stark and,yes, sinister 300 years of baggage rebounds every time those of us vested by our Founders with sovereignty let down our guard. We woke up long enough to get Obama to the White House, but that was the beginning, not the end. In spite of the painful current reality foisted on us by out-of-control pseudo-free-marketeers, we're still in the deadly grip of profit-über alles. Shame on us. It's hardly news that a well-oiled machine is intensely focused on derailing long overdue reforms to our deeply flawed delivery system, a bloated monstrosity that administers over-priced, under-performing services. OF COURSE the "town halls" we are seeing covered by media outlets as if they were genuine news events are fake, the false-fears shouted manufactured.
zdqrypj0824 However, the deluded individuals who've swallowed whole the lies are real enough. The same arrogance and abuse that is now loosed into the public policy sphere is now countenanced in even the most ordinary day-to-day exchanges. The Republicans' decades-long and shocking destruction of a civil and civic society leaves us with challenges at every turn. Democrats' complicity is one of those challenges. Challenges, yes. Intractable, no. Hard? You bet. Worth the effort? Absolutely. To paraphrase the exemplary Bo Lozoff, if escort in shanghai we're going to make the drastic changes that decency and democracy require, it will take practice. So in addition to being a "regular" in my Senators' and Representative's in-boxes, voice-mail and offices, I'm taking my own advice to heart in even the little stuff. Example one: Yesterday afternoon, I returned to my office to a curt, booming and unfamiliar voice, a message from "Dr. Somebody Something". He demanded that I call back. Immediately. Now we gets lots of calls for companies with names similar to ours, so the mistake was no surprise, but his tone was.
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