Please help me out here. I have been following this subject for a number of months now. I have heard Philip Berg speak on radio and had seen a video of his on line—the man doesn’t sound like a raving lunatic. The biggest on-line coverage has been from Joseph Farah’s World Net Daily. which can use sensationalist language.
But my point is —many conservative bloggers, radio folks etc. don’t want to touch this with a 20 foot pole. Pajamas Media has been steering clear of the issue—pretty much denying it. whassup Up?
Pajamas media is a mixture with some conservatives.
It is indeed passing strange that no one wants to touch this. Here’s my .02:
1. Fear - of blackmail - got dirty laundry hidden; fear of loss of income via Fairness Doctrine; fear of whatever other tactics 0-team could send their way.
2. Another fear - fear of looking “stupid” or uncool, fear of being associated with the kookery wingnut division. Fear of losing face with DC insiders, or entertainment/media insiders, not invited to the insider parties and so on. The desire to be popular and well-liked cripples the ability to see truth and the courage to act on truth.
3. Ignorance - it takes a long time to get educated about this. Lots and lots of reading. People who like to stay on the surface - shallow thinking - don’t want to dive into this. It’s damn ugly.
4. Can’t think outside the “normal” paradigm - as though because everything has always been a certain way, it always will. Of course, hasn’t ALWAYS been a certain way, but people tend to freeze their thinking inside their little few decades’ worth of cultural limitations. As in - “Oh, they have coups and liar fraud marxists in other, third world countries, not here!”
5. Denial - not wanting to realize the game has changed, and there are people and institutions made of people who are - EVIL with a capital E. Eeeevilll. Bad. Wrong. Wicked. Evil. Yes. Many people do not want to realize or accept this. So they ignore or sneer at those who point these things out.
Bottom line - civilizations are born, flourish, stagnate, turn bad, and die. Have throughout history, and always will. I am afraid we are seeing one die. But I am of good cheer that eventually one will get born; or maybe this one will struggle and manage to renew itself.
Because there's nothing to it. It's the 2009, conservative equivalent of those people who kept yelling that Bush was "selected not elected".