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Are There Any Limits to the Propaganda of Goebbels W. Bush?
By Tom Ball
01/07/05

Remember the question that I asked at the end of my last post on Bush
Propaganda?

Well, the answer is... we haven't even begun to see the extent to
which this administration will go when it comes to asserting their
agenda. And why should we? They committed atrocities beyond compare
in their first term and the American electorate gave them a free pass.

I don't blame the Republicans one bit for relentlessly pursuing their
agenda. When you beat someone down to get what you want and they
say..."hey, that's ok"...then you give them another beat down and
take even more. In a sense, the beaten are being punished for being
so damn pitiful. That is the 'strict father' way.

And politically speaking, if my opponents rolled over for my agenda,
you better believe I would not hesitate to steamroll them again and
again. Constraint would be foolhardy. This would be a one-time
opportunity to assert my values on the world – values to which I'm
sure some would object. But frankly… I don't care.

My values are those that I perceive as being in the best interest of
my family, my nation and the world. For what reason could I justly
mitigate actions that would promote those values? To do anything else
would be to allow an inferior or even a destructive policy to
entrench itself where I would have otherwise been able (in my
perception) to provide great benefit. To do anything else would be to
abandon my values and principles.

I'm sure that the right sees things similarly. They want to do what
they think is the correct thing to do. I would want to do the same. I
don't blame them one bit.

As you might expect, however, there is always room for blame.

To start, I blame myself -- for my naivety -- for my lack of
sufficient action in promoting the progressive ideology – for any
time I have ever backed down to a conservative or otherwise conceded
an inch in their favor. Never again.

I blame the gullible, willfully ignorant, easily cowed electorate who
fell for the administration's innumerable and vast injections of
propaganda -- the cleverly crafted framing, the misleads, lies and
distortions.

I blame the media for failing to uphold any sense of journalistic
integrity -- for not presenting the news, for not challenging the
centralization of power, and for not asking the hard questions or
investigating the issues that truly effect us.

But most of all, I blame the non-existent opposition party for their
gross lack of courage -- for abandoning their values, for cowing to
Bush, and for refusing to take a stand.

It is a pitiful state of affairs when the greatest institution of
democracy -- our right to vote -- barely escapes oblivion because the
opposition party just barely scrapes out a single, tearful senator to
hold the reigns of protest. If the rolls were reversed, Republicans
would have had legions upon legions of conservatives and neocons
joining the forces of protest.

So where is this all coming from?

Well, it seems that some steam must be vented. This morning, I posted
a bit about the GAO finding the administration in criminal violation
of peddling propaganda FOR THE SECOND TIME!

Then I read Stu Finkel's post and asked myself if there is truly any
check on this administration. Increasingly, I find myself led to a
single conclusion... no.



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