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Thanks for hearing me out.
[I hope no one comes along and derides or calls you an “idiot” for doing so]...:)

There’s a saying “Good news doesn’t sell papers” and that is an unfortunate, self serving truth.

Of course news channels hawk whatever “story” makes the biggest profit for them.
They’d be bad businessmen if they didn’t.

That prime example of capitalism, however, IMO, should *not* ever endanger or compromise this country in way, shape or form.
[Yes, I know...”in a perfect world”]

It always amazes me when I see some station running patently anti-American propaganda, designed to undermine the very foundations of this country.

Do they imagine that, *somehow*, they will be exempt from the consequences?

If all channels wind up being 24/7 infomercials for Dear Leader, who will watch them?
Who will support the sponsors?
Will there even *be* any sponsors left or will “the state” finance the “news” itself?

There’s all this sudden concern that “birthers” will appear as radical conspiracy lunatics.
[or some other marginalizing label]

The irony in that is positively hysterical.

I’ve sat for decades and watched polite, rational conservatives “protesting” right across the street from screaming, unwashed people wearing a giant papier mache’ heads, wielding huge ludicrous puppets, having mass “die ins”, “shoes for all the dead killed in Iraq”, etc etc etc.
[I’ve never seen the riot squad turn the hoses/dogs/tear gas on any “conservative mobs”, either]

I see hundreds of nauseating photos from “gay” [or whatever] “pride” parades/days that look like out-takes from a bad ‘Fellini-on-acid’ film, a guy who posed in diapers and bunny ears becoming a senator and *I* should worry someone will be perceive *me* as “fringe” or “nutty”?

For quite some time now, *every* time we get into a conversation about 0 with random strangers in myriads of social settings, when they think they can trust you enough to speak freely, the “birth” issue comes up....without fail.

Then come the whispered “Marxist/Muslim/Commie/Fascist/whatever” conjectures.

Whether our so-called political representatives like it or not, the meme is out there...the seed of doubt is planted and the common, average Joe Voter on the street is ~worried~...and watching warily *everything* that 0 does.

A *lot* of the “herd” is spooked by this guy, whether they dare voice it aloud or not.

No amount of half-@ssed denials, slippery semantics, confused and confusing “official explanations” is going to change that, at this point.

The question “who IS this guy, really?” has gotten too big and too embedded in the -real- public subconscious to go away.

I don’t even believe his poll numbers are anywhere near as high as some purport them to be.

I live in an ultra-right wing world and NOBODY I know has *ever* been polled.
If the “middle/liberal” demographic so often polled is handing him tanking numbers, what would the numbers be if places like my corner of the world were actually asked what ~we~ think, for a change?

Alinsky was a genius at undermining the integrity of his opponents and mutating lies into “public opinion” by clever, half-truth manipulations.

Those tactics are effective but they’re not solely the property of liberals.

Conservatives are too well mannered and well raised to be “radicals” but if we don’t start fighting fire with fire, we’ll be extinguished.

McCain fought a “clean campaign” against the filthy Chicago Machine.

That may have been an honorable intention and morally high-grounded but it didn’t work out too well for us, now did it?

I keep thinking of the final battle scene in “The Patriot” where the dignified British marched in mathematically perfect formation, highly restrained and easy targets for the “’guerrilla warfare” revolutionaries to pick off, at will.

That’s how I see us, now.

We’re SO polite, well mannered, honorable and dignified that the maniacs on the left can just jump out of trees [figuratively speaking] and cut our throats yet we still never “break orderly rank”.

You cannot win a dirty fight by fighting clean.

I have no problem with right wing people turning the left wing’s tactics back on them.

Whatever works, works.

When it’s all said and done and we have reclaimed our country, constitution and values, *then* I’ll have time to sit back and contemplate our “kook” status.

That is my assessment and my opinion and to whomever disagrees, that is your right.

For *now*, I still have the freedom and right to voice it.

Whatever insulting flames may result from this, I rejoice that the flamer still has the freedom to speak their mind as well.

It’s funny how you come to appreciate freedoms like that [even when they insult you] because you know you [and they] are *this* close to losing them.