Reply #48: Well, that makes as much sense as anything else I've read on this subject

[Time for change]

With regard to your being depressed about: "polls show that most Americans believe that the CIA assassinated President Kennedy and worked with government officials to cover it up. Yet we continue to elect and reelect those on both sides of the isle - who basically tell us we are all full of shit for not believing the official lie truth."

That is certainly something worth thinking about, I have thought a lot about it, and I think I have some sort of an answer: To put it in simple terms, politicians in order to be successful need to walk a very fine line in order to accomplish two things: 1) They need to appeal to the American people; and 2) They need to obtain the blessing of the PTB.

The point is that if the PTB is adamently against them, it almost doesn't matter how intrinsically appealing they are to the American people, because the PTB will find a way to bring them down -- through constantly lambasting them through our corporate media, assassination, or whatever.

So the bottom line is that, to a very large extent, we Americans don't have much of a choice. Almost all the politicians who are presented to us have to "tell us we're full of shit for believing the official lies" because if they don't they'll be destroyed by the PTB.

That of course a gross simplification of what's going on, but I do believe there's a lot of truth in it.

But on the bright side, I do believe that Americans are catching on and getting smarter (and the Internet is helping a great deal). Over time I believe/hope that things will get a lot better. Maybe not in my lifetime, but eventually. We just need to keep on speaking the truth as we see it.