Charles Hugh Smith with an outstanding takedown of the Power Elite and their lies. You can see why the Elite want to control the internet. It is the only place left to find the truth.
Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul “Unelectable”
The Ministry of Propaganda has chosen to suppress the only dangerous-to-the-Power Elites candidate by declaring him “unelectable.”
The Status Quo’s Ministry of Propaganda has a single political task for 2012: eliminate the sole threat to the Status Quo (Ron Paul) from the running, leaving voters with a “choice” of clueless stooges for the Power Elite.
That roster includes President Obama and the daytime-TV/soap-opera field of Republicrat contenders.
The Ministry of Propaganda has settled on a ludicrous strategy to eliminate Ron Paul: declare Paul “unelectable.”
As with all propaganda, the basic idea is that if it is repeated often enough on officially sanctioned stages, it will eventually be accepted as “true.”
Our Christmas-New Year’s week of family visits took us to homes where the television is on all the time, and as a result I was exposed to the Ministry of Propaganda’s preferred media, TV “news.” Regardless of the channel or program, the message was the same: “The presidential race will between Obama and either Romney or Gingrich.”
Despite the polls that find Paul and Romney with equal levels of support in Iowa, Romney has been declared the front-runner and Paul written off as “unelectable.”
In other words, the voters don’t even need to check in; the Ministry of Propaganda’s army of toadies, lackeys and media apparatchiks have their marching orders: repeat that Ron Paul is unelectable at every opportunity, either explicitly or implicitly via leaving him off the list of “frontrunners.”
The Ministry of Propaganda’s campaign is easily revealed by two simple thought experiments. How would the corporate media characterize Newt Gingrich’s “electability” if he was running neck-and-neck with Romney? Answer: the media toadies would be falling over each other to declare Gingrich “electable.”
Now repeat the experiment with Rick Santorum or Michelle Bachmann. The answer is the same: since these candidates are on the list of Power-Elites approved stooges, a showing equal to Ron Paul’s would instantly win them veritable tsunamis of media coverage, all focused on their eminent “electability.”
Here is the second thought experiment: does anyone seriously think any of the Republicrat candidates are even remotely qualified to deal with the crises brewing on the horizon? What exactly makes them “electable”?
Let’s consider them one at a time, scrubbed of spin, PR and propaganda:
Mitt Romney: the perfect player for a remake of “The Stepford Wives” entitled “The Stepford Politicos.” Romney is the personification of the telegenic, wealthy empty suit, devoid of any ideas beyond retreads of Status Quo tweaks that leave the Power Elite–of which he is a member–safely in charge.
Romney’s “electability” rests on the hopes that the hard drives from his time as governor stay safely erased and that zombified voters conclude that having a family and membership in a church are sufficient qualifications for President.
His handlers have carefully studied the political satire The Candidate and have not yet formulated an answer to the question, “What do we do now?” should the wealthy pawn of the Power Elite improbably win the presidency.
Michelle Bachmann: Imagine her wearing a witch’s hat, it isn’t hard to do; Bachmann is the ideal Wicked Witch of the West, but without the charisma. She does have a host of frightful winged monkeys, though–her handlers.
Newt Gingrich: Gingrich has a number of redeeming characteristics, starting with his famously unsavory “baggage” that reveals an appealingly flawed core. He is also the only Republicrat candidate that wouldn’t bore you to despair within a few minutes, i.e. he actually strays from the canned scripts approved by the Ministry of Propaganda. Third, on occasion he actually reveals glimmers of awareness that the next 10 years will not be like the previous decade, and that America is at a critical crossroads.
Unfortunately, his canned ideology-as-”solution” ideas expired a decade ago and he has no coherent vision of a future that isn’t just a slightly modified version of the Power-Elite dominated one that is now hurtling toward instability.
He has shown a remarkable ability, however, to hide his horns and forked tail.
Rick Perry: Another telegenic empty suit who hoped that having a family and membership in a church qualified him for the presidency.
Rick Santorum: Rick’s ruthlessness has its charm, starting with his long and painful campaign to establish a simulacrum of intellectual “seriousness.” Like all the other stooges, his version of “the vision thing” is a tepid edit of the Status Quo. Like all the stooges other than the refreshingly flawed Gingrich, he hopes membership in a church qualifies him for the presidency.
What all the candidates but Ron Paul dare not acknowledge because it isn’t on the approved Ministry of Propaganda script is that the Status Quo is heading off a cliff at the direct behest of the nation’s Power Elite. The only candidate that has “the vision thing” and that clearly enunciates exactly how the Power Elite’s policies have led the nation off a cliff of insolvency and Imperial hubris is Ron Paul.
For this sin against the Status Quo and its Power Elite, Paul has been excommunicated, and the (pardon my language) smarmy army of corporate media whores cannot declare him “unelectable” often enough.
That is proof that he is highly electable, for otherwise the Ministry of Propaganda wouldn’t be running a campaign of such transparent desperation.
Administrator says:
Why Young Liberals, Like Me, Will Vote Ron Paul
By: Jacquelyn Cuddeback
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — I’ve lived in Iowa my whole life, and as a senior political science major at Coe College, I understand the importance of being politically active. But the moves made recently by President Obama and Congress, coupled with some of the outrageous statements made by mainstream Republican candidates, have me nervous as the Iowa caucus fast approaches; whom can I vote for? Not a president who believes it is OK to assassinate American citizens overseas, or a president who would repeal all of the progress made to protect the environment and the rights of gays. Third party? Or just don’t vote – a show of no confidence, like the Occupy Movement was doing? Then I realized there was a third option.
I worried about breaking the news to my friend Reid, a hard core liberal.
“Don’t be mad at me,” I told him, “but I’m afraid I have to vote Republican this coming election.”
“Me too,” said Reid. “I’m sure not voting for Obama — I’m voting Ron Paul.” My jaw dropped. Reid said that although he supported Obama in 2008, he has followed the Texas Congressman for years. He was the only candidate he felt hadn’t lied to us and has the voting record to prove it. “And I’m sorry, I don’t want to be declared a terrorist and ‘disappear’ in the middle of the night,” Reid said.
Reid and I had been involved in the Occupy Cedar Rapids movement together, me silently documenting, him actively participating. I knew he was angry about Obama’s new budget plan. I just never expected him to lean Republican.
Reid demonstrates what John Della Volpe, the director of polling at Harvard’s Institute for Politics, told Turnstyle about our generation. This election season, the so-called 18 – 29 year-old Millennials are up for grabs, and Ron Paul has all the right moves. We might align with liberal ideas on paper, but in Iowa, the earliest state in the nation to caucus for presidential candidates, it’s Ron Paul who will get young voters out of the house to caucus in sub-freezing weather.
“There is a chord clearly that Ron Paul is striking with young people,” said Volpe. “It’s just his incredible authenticity, and a focus on this libertarian, independent streak that young people have always had. And he’s also putting an effort behind it.”
Professor Dianne Bystrom at Iowa State University witnessed the energy for Ron Paul first-hand. She teaches a Campaign Rhetoric class every four years to coincide with the presidential elections. On December 8, she attended a Ron Paul event on campus with over 1,000 attendees. “It started at 7 o’clock, but people were standing in line at 6, almost like a rock concert,” Bystrom said. “It was a pretty raucous crowd because they were packed in. Afterwards students were waiting in line to take pictures with him.”
Sarah Banowetz, 29, is astonished by the way Ron Paul has captured the attention of her 20-year-old brother. “He doesn’t care about anything, but he’s totally all for Ron Paul,” said Banowetz. “Whether Ron Paul wins or not, it’s been really cool to watch my brother learn about stuff and really take an interest.”
So why do Millennials go for Ron Paul? Bystrom said it could be the 76-year-old’s grandfatherly age and appearance. But it’s also his politics.
My father and I have never agreed when it comes to politics. According to him, I’ve been brainwashed by my liberal arts education; and I think he’s stuck in the politics of a time long passed. I mean, I’m the political science student, right? Shouldn’t I know what’s going on in the world today?
I remember being thrilled in 2008 when I attended the Democratic caucus despite the fact that my parents were attending the Republican one; I found I had a lot of friends in the same situation. Now, in 2012, we may be voting in the same place. I can’t help but groan – times are changing.
And change is exactly what people my age are looking for.
Turnstyle spoke with Angel Williams, 25, who went looking for change at a Ron Paul rally. After the event, she no longer had any reservations about voting for him. Meanwhile, she had nothing but reservations for Obama, her 2008 choice. His presidency, “just wasn’t what I expected.”
Paul represents dramatic change for young people, according to both Volpe and Bystrom. The first thing many young people see is an anti-war candidate. “For many young voters, the war in Iraq has been going on for most of their lifetime,” Bystrom said. “While older Republicans are wary of Ron Paul’s isolationist policies, they appeal to young voters.”
“At first the foreign policy caught me like everyone else,” said 18-year-old Ian Hollinger, “But to be honest, when you hear him speak, I don’t have any more reservations.” Hollinger, a student at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa City, said he also talks a lot about Paul’s economic policy when he volunteers for the campaign. “The whole idea that you don’t need to spend trillions of dollars to run a government really appeals to me,” he said.
But the students at Iowa’s 64 colleges and universities are still on winter vacation. Will they show up to caucus for Paul?
Volpe says yes — there may even be more support for Paul than is showing up in the polls. “I feel that Ron Paul is potentially flying under the radar in a way frankly, that Barack Obama was flying under the radar four years ago,” he said.
Paul might also be underestimated due to the fact that the Iowa Poll by the Des Moines Register, surveyed a pool that was 69 percent men and 31 percent women. According to Bystrom, women attend caucuses in larger proportions than men do–and are big Ron Paul supporters. ”He’s the only candidate with a big gender gap,” said Bystrom.
The question is: do young people and women give Ron Paul the edge he needs to win in Iowa? And if he does win, could the momentum carry over to the rest of the country?
Here in Iowa, we are proud to hold the first caucus — proud to help decide which candidate has a chance at winning the presidency. I mean, what else do we have to be proud of except cornfields as far as the eye can see? Yet even here, my experiences show that this year a lot of young people are indifferent; otherwise, they’re supporting Paul.
GOP members have said that if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucus, and loses the party nomination, the Iowa caucuses may lose their legitimacy — especially if many who caucused for Ron Paul end up voting Democratic in the general election.
And according to Della Volpe’s Harvard poll, Millennials nationwide would still vote for Obama over a Republican candidate. But at least among my friends, change from the status quo is essential, and it’s no longer under Obama’s banner. If Paul doesn’t get the Republican nomination, many of us will either take our vote to another party or not vote at all.
Della Volpe told Turnstyle, “I think it’s a tremendous mistake for members of the Democratic party to take young people for granted. There’s nothing to believe that young people won’t continue to show this independent streak and continue to think and evaluate and question the role of party and the effect that they have on selecting candidates.”
After all, we’re still up for grabs. I’m realizing Ron Paul is the only candidate I could accept; none of the others represent me. So what do I do if he doesn’t win the nomination? I feel like many of my friends, and people in my generation, are asking the same question. Party politics don’t matter to us; we want a candidate that will represent us and will act in our interest. If not Ron Paul, then who?
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3rd January 2012 at 2:39 pm
Administrator says:
Happy New Year and welcome back to the presidential political circus which begins in earnest today with the Iowa caucus followed closely by the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 10.
Three candidates are in a dead heat for Iowa, according to a poll released Sunday. Public Policy Polling had Ron Paul with 20% of the vote, Mitt Romney at 19% and Rick Santorum at 18%.
Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital and a former Republican Senate candidate joined The Daily Ticker’s Henry Blodget to discuss the presidential election and his top pick in Iowa.
“I hope it is Ron Paul who wins Iowa and not just Iowa but obviously New Hampshire, the nomination and the presidency,” says Schiff who considers himself a true supporter of limited government, like Ron Paul, as opposed to the many Republicans who just talk the talk and do not walk the walk. (See: It’s Time to Roll Back Big Government: Rep. Ron Paul Says ‘No’ to Debt Ceiling Increase)
Schiff acknowledges a Ron Paul nomination is a long shot and concedes that Mitt Romney will likely be the candidate whose name appears on the general election ballot. But that won’t stop Schiff from continuing to spread the word about Paul.
“The reason our economy got into so much trouble is because we completely abandoned the free market and we followed the government policies of Bush and now we have got the even bigger government policies of Obama,” he says. “I hope we can fully repudiate big government whether it is Republicans or Democrats that want it and we can embrace Ron Paul and change the Republican Party and bring it back to the party of limited government.”
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3rd January 2012 at 2:46 pm
Administrator says:
Vote in the Drudge Report Poll. Ron is winning.
http://drudgereport.com/
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3rd January 2012 at 2:47 pm
Colma Rising says:
It’s funny what a little honesty can do for a candidate…
I hope a vote can get out to the California primaries that matter (hahahaha)… I can’t begin to count classmates, former Obama supporters, who have registered just for Paul. It’s not like I had much to do with it either.
Ron Paul had something to do with it.
Because Ron Paul belongs to America.
Every other candidate is a globalistic weirdo who sees continual war as their means to attempt any semblence of hollow prosperity… They don’t belong to America.
I hope he pimps the caucus tomorrow.
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3rd January 2012 at 3:33 pm
Oscar Mannheim says:
I last voted in a US presidential election in 1992, when I voted for Ross Perot, for whom I campaigned. I left the US in 1998 to live overseas. I will cast an absentee ballot this year of Ron Paul is the nominee, and if not, I guess I’ll write him in. I am an old guy (65), but I am no end of pleased that the young (and the not-so-young!) are beginning to wake up and support Dr. Paul; the young must carry the ball for the future and if they fail to read the handwriting on the wall now written in stroboscopic neon, I do not envy that future; if they do, I will feel better about the future for my posterity, whether they live in the US or not.
Make no mistake, however: it will be an uphill battle all the way; all the more reason to focus on the importance of this candidacy!
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3rd January 2012 at 4:01 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Bat Shit said the other day that she was winning in Iowa with the 18-29 year olds. A 2 minute look into the PPP poll released last week showed 8.8 Ron Paul supporters to 1 of Bat Shit’s. I think at least her BS is coming to an end.
Still worried about Perry and the Grinch in the deep south.
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3rd January 2012 at 4:02 pm
Novista says:
Ron Paul’s Christian Reconstructionist Roots
by Michelle Goldberg
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/02/ron-paul-s-christian-reconstructionist-roots.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
“The surging libertarian is no stranger to the religious right’s fringe. Michelle Goldberg on his Christian Reconstructionist fans—and what they have in common with the Taliban. ”
NDAA wants you! It will take a BIG FEMA camp for all Ron Paul voters.
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3rd January 2012 at 4:46 pm
Thinker says:
A high school focus group: Scenes from the Iowa caucuses
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa–On the first day of the spring semester at Valley High School, the senior class filed into the school gym to hear three Republican presidential candidates make their pitch to the young people of Iowa. About 800 students took a seat in the bleachers to listen to Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and four of Mitt Romney’s sons, who are campaigning for their father.
I hiked up to the middle of the bleachers after Bachmann spoke and grabbed a seat next to some of the athletes on the girls sports teams. They were atwitter about seeing Ron Paul.
“Is Ron Paul going to be here?” asked Shannon, a softball player.
“Yup,” another girl replied.
“Yesssssssss,” Shannon said.
That, however, was before Mitt Romney’s sons–Josh, Matt, Craig, and Tagg–took the stage. The young women gasped. (Ron who?)
“Yummyyyy,” Kylie, another softball player, muttered under her breath.
“What’s the name of the one in the checkered shirt?” asked Shannon, a basketball player, pointing to Romney’s son Craig. “He’s the hottest.”
Everyone in my focus group agreed, calling him “the baby.”
After the Romney hunks departed, the traveling herd of reporters bolted for the door, where another candidate was about to enter.
“Is that Ron!?” one of the girls blurted out, snapping out of her Romney Boy trance. She strained her neck to see past the basketball hoops.
“No, it’s just Rick,” another one said, disappointed after spotting Rick Santorum.
“Rick who?” one of the girls asked as Santorum made his way across the floor.
“Wait a minute,” Ally, a basketball player said, looking closer. “He’s kind of hot.”
Now there was some disagreement. One of the students agreed–”Yeah, he’s kind of cute”–but another said, “He has a huge face.”
The girls weren’t thrilled about Santorum’s trademark sweater vest. It “makes him a look a little chunky” and “hits him at the wrong spots.” Consensus.
When Santorum finished speaking, it was finally time for the main event, Dr. Ron Paul.
When Paul entered, no one could see him because the 76-year-old was smothered by a horde of cameras. Then a small window opened within the throng, and a little face peeped out to the cheering crowd.
“He’s got his glasses on,” Shannon exclaimed. “Like a BOSS.”
“He reminds me of my grandpa! He’s so oooold,” Kylie remarked, “How bad would you feel if he had a heart attack right now?”
This remark was followed by a very awkward silence, broken by a nearby “GO RON PAUL!”–an exclamation that occurs reliably every few minutes at any Paul event.
Paul began his speech by touting his recent endorsement from pop star Kelly Clarkson, transitioned into his regular talk about ending the war–which drew a roar of applause–and ended with a lecture on sound money, which drew a roar of yawns.
“Wrap it up, Ron,” muttered Shannon, the biggest Paul fan in the bunch.
When Paul stopped talking, the girls forgave him immediately. Like clockwork, one of them stood up and yelled the war chant. “GO RON PAUL!”
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3rd January 2012 at 5:04 pm
Colma Rising says:
Thinker:
That cracks me up…
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3rd January 2012 at 5:38 pm
Dragline says:
Cool report from Cedar Rapids, Admin. I grew up there and my older sister went to Coe, too.
I guess the Millennials have woken up and realize (a) they don’t want to be detained for no reason, and (b) they don’t want to die in somebody’s new war. Good for them!
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3rd January 2012 at 5:55 pm
Pirate Jo says:
Thinker, that is funny as hell.
I’m heading out in an hour to the caucus – I’m from Iowa. The two recipients of the pumpkin pies I made over the weekend are heading out as well. So the number of people who voted for him in the caucuses in 2008 has gone from one to three in 2012 in my own little world.
I’ll be back later to let you know what I saw and heard.
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3rd January 2012 at 6:34 pm
Administrator says:
Pirate Jo
Throw an extra vote in for me.
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3rd January 2012 at 7:17 pm
willdogz says:
Fear not the voters, but the vote counters. A secret location to count the votes ? WTF ?
http://www.infowars.com/tonights-iowa-vote-count-to-take-place-at-secret-location/
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3rd January 2012 at 8:19 pm