The Young Turks

This is how we got into this unwise and illegal war.  The mental image I have is a picture of the US from a satellite and some big, shadowy wizard or sorceress floating above the east coast and spinning the wand in circles.  Colored waves of smoke or mist fan out over the country and envelope the whole nation.  This is like the illusion they create.  They manipulate the story, the sell it to the media and project a whole different reality into the consciousness of the country.   Suddenly, Saddam attacked us and we have to invade and anyone who says anything else is a traitor, etc.

We are all familiar with the tactic, the Republican spin machine weaving its story of fear and causing events to go their way.

It occurred to me from a couple of observations others have mentioned, that we are witnessing the same thing in this primary race. 

First, if you took every instance where the Clinton campaign talked about women and this historic opportunity for women, etc.  and tried to replace that with Obama and his campaign saying the exact same thing switching the word ‘women’ to ‘Afro-Americans&rsquo ;.  How do you think that would play out?  Not a pleasant thing to contemplate.  Doesn’t this suggest a different standard?  I can’t imagine Barak complaining about how unfair he has been treated as a Black man, like Hillary tries to keep the women aware of her situation as ’poor Hillary’, all those mean men.

And yet, everyone seems to be convinced that the media is so unfair to her.  And the super delegates should not move away because that would be unfair to her too.  Everyone is so unfair to her, such a raw deal.  But think about this.  What if it was Hillary who had won 11 of the last 11 primaries?  What if it was Hillary raising more money than God?  What if it was Hillary who had the huge rallies and all the momentum?  How do you think Barak would be talked about in the media, or the story that would envelope him?  I think they would have drummed him out of the race by now.  I certainly don’t think they would be so overly ‘fair and balanced’ in his favor. 

And yet, the Clinton campaign keeps everyone stringing along with their vision of what ‘could be’, what is ‘only fair’, how we should see this whole thing.   Look at the realities and look at the perception.  They have done a fantastic job of bamboozling everyone.

And that is why I feel uncomfortable.  Rather than ‘winning’ on facts, they have chosen the tactic of ‘managing the perceptions’. &n bsp; That is exactly the philosophy of the current administration, managing perception.  Not dealing with the issues, not actually solving the problems, but manage the perceptions.  Manage perceptions until reality actually catches up, as it always does, and the drunken stupor or the drug induced hallucination, gives way to the new day.  Or the economic realities hit the fan.  What we are all hungry for are people who will talk to us as adults, inform us what is happening and stop trying to manipulate us with managed perceptions of what they want us to think until we all go over the cliff.  That is why we are sick to death of this philosophy and management style.  And it is just what the Bush’s and Clinton’s are doing.