“No one, post-Jeremiah Wright”
I recently played youtube clips of “Reverend” Wrights greatest hits for a Jewish friend.
He is reasonably informed voter -— NEVER SAW THE CLIPS.
Freepers -— a highly informed group -— greatly underestimate how effective the MSM blockaide is.
The decisions of the average voter is much easier to understand when you realize 99% of the time the sole source of news is the MSM.
This is why Obama was bitching about the Internet this past weekend -— there are holes in the wall.
Do not mistake the political awareness of yourself and your close associates for the political awareness of the electorate. They actually draw a picture of two brains, with the appropriate quantity of the brain devoted to politics for you compared with that of the rest of humanity. You can picture it.
I agree with you. That is one of the biggest problem we face.
We have ceded control of the infrastructure of the battlefield of ideas. Schools, universities, news media, entertainment media, these are where most people get their information, and where arguments get trotted out and made popular or made "beyond the pale". We have been steadily squeezed out of those institutions and, although we have tardily begun to build new ones it isn't enough. Much of what we know isn't known across the spectrum of society, and much of what they know isn't true.
We send our kids to be educated by people who do not believe what we believe and don't teach what needs to be taught for a republic to sustain itself. They are informed by the same people, who are in position to suppress information that doesn't fit and shape information so that it does fit. And they are entertained by the same people who now get to show them what is hip and what is laughably out of date.
Then we wonder, though we need not wonder, why with every passing year we find ourselves further and further outnumbered. Reality still makes converts to our side but not nearly fast enough or thorough enough.
We need to tear down the MSM media wall and expose Obama for the person he really is. We all need to buy billboards and support organizations that opppose Obama.