What would happen if Americans really KNEW?

[serryjw]

I feel like I have a secret and no one else wants to know the secret. Everyone is going on with their lives. They go to work, raise their childre, go on vacation and HAVE FUN! I feel like I am witnessing the begining of the end and I want to shout from the roof top to everyone to pay attention but no one can hear me.


How do you deal with knowing the truth?

[patrice]

1. Reduce it to 10 words or less. Write it on a sign, and

Stand on a street corner.

P.S. Foam-core board does quite nicely, light, easy to hold, and pretty durable.

[Flammable Materials]

9. 12 GALAXIES. n/t

[BuyingThyme]

2. I go hiking...

and listen to the radio a lot.

Hopefully I can share my secrets someday, and it won't be too late.

[pstans]

3. That is why people need to know about the PNAC

The PNAC has laid out everything that Bu$h and Co. has been doing. Look who Bu$h has appointed to important positions for his 2nd term, all PNAC people.

People don't think all of these bad things could be connected, but if you read some about the PNAC, they tell you they want to do it this way.

The problem is I bet only 10% of America have ever heard of the PNAC.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

13. Agreed. Send people to the website

If you point people to the PNAC website, http://www.newamericancentury.org/ they will very likely have their eyes opened.
I have enlightened several people about this, and they have never been the same. Including one Republican who completely reversed his beliefs , left the Republican party, and works hard to educate others.

It's particularly powerful because it's not a site about the PNAC, it's their actual website, out in the open.

[walldude]

33. I sent someone to their website

and he came back with the brilliant statement that it's a fake site and fake organization created by some liberals to make the GOP look bad... :eyes:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

37. Those are the kind of people we'll never shake loose

They see what they want to see.

But at least he was able to see that it made the GOP look bad, that's pretty funny. I'd be more concerned about the people who see the site and want to sign up.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Yep

I've told a few people about this (those who I know aren't pro-Bush's) and they go "huh? what's that?" So I give them the pnac official site and all that. If they want the jist of it I tell them in a short summary what they are about.

[clem_c_rock]

27. Go deep into PNAC research and you'll find out very quickly

How MIHOP is very probable.

911 was the biggest wet dream for these guys. W/out it, not one part of their agenda would have been able to be acheived.

Because of 911, we are already underway w/ all the plans laid out up to about the 30th page of "Rebuilding America's Defenses".

[hootinholler]

28. 10% ????

Methinks you are far too generous, my estimate is more like 2% at least around here. Funny, I've found zero Republicans who know about it.

-Hoot

[annabanana]

4. If I'm surrounded by the completely obtuse,

I gently point out the most glaring inconsistancies and take comfort in the occasional "I never thought of that" that is thrown my way. People have to be led slowly, as no one could believe the enormity of the outrage all at once.

You also have to search out the like-minded. I know Denver has more than a few.

[jean]

12. I am regularly among a group of the obtuse and just listen to them discuss

things. They eventually hit on something pertinent in which I can insert a niblet of fatual info. It's amazing how they grab onto it and take off. Most times they get downright outraged.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. I agree

And like Maher said you can't start off with "I hate Bush and republicans." You have to leave general politics out of it and just start issues in general.

[Afje]

5. Nothing

It's not that people don't see what is going on, but that they DO like what they see.

[newyawker99]

42. Hi Afje!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DIKB]

6. Kinda the same way

I deal with religion. I've judged and looked at the facts and come to a conclusion. Others live in ignorance, believing lies, don't care enough to know, or distract themselves with other things.

It's lonely, but you find like minds, and hold onto what sanity you can. Rejoice in the fact that you are not alone, there are others like you out there, and through work, some simpler people will see the truth.

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Also I think what helps

is to know the truth is on your side and you know you're right no matter how crazy it sounds. Someday on down the line it will be known that it was right and you can have some little glory in that. I know I'm waiting for the day when the truth about Kennedy, 9/11 and Iraq come out and I can go "see? I tried to tell you...."

[kixot]

7. slow dispondence

n/t

[TexasSissy]

8. I try to imagine how the Germans who knew that Hitler was bad news

and what the Nazis were, and would be, doing to their country, felt. Imagine. A few saw what was coming. A few tried to assassinate him (they were assassinated, instead). And then they saw it happen.

I try to imagine that. The few who "got it." The masses never did....even many Jews. Until it was too late, that is.

The most we can do is to speak our mind. Participate in bipartisan forums. Speak up when a conservative says something to you offhandedly good about the administration. Remind them. Vote for the good guys.

[tavalon]

30. See my sig line

Although it's now outdated. I have spent quite a bit of time imagining that exact thing. And I don't think we're far off from that.

[Goldeneye]

10. I became even more introverted.

Its a nightmare to even try to explain this to people. There's this huge web of connections and when you start talking about one thing you inevitably run into something/someone else the person (you're trying to explain this too) doesn't know and then you have to go on that tangent. Then the tangent has stuff they don't know about so you have another tangent. By the time you get to something they can understand, you don't even know where you started. I constantly find myself saying "If you don't believe me...there were newspaper articles about" or "its real, just look here," because some of the stuff is so unbelievable...like gannon and the child prostitution ring of the 80's and some of the shit republicans say and do.

[serryjw]

14. Introverted....me too......

I have had the same experience trying to explain what's happening. It's so convoluted that I get lost in my outrage..I must admit if you recommend ONE book to someone whom wants to know it would be Crossing the Rubicon Michael did a great job tying all of this mess together.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

[vpigrad]

11. Go on vacation????

Who in the hell can afford to do that any longer? I went to the beach for a week 12 years ago, and I've had a vacation more recently than most of my friends and family.

[NEOBuckeye]

15. "If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street

...and lynch us."
--George H. W. Bush

[Donailin]

16. It aint easy.

When I have to explain shit to my FATHER, my Father. . can you imagine that? My dad, who in my mind was always the font of strength and wisdom and knowledge, and I'm hearing myself say dad, you're misinformed, deliberately misinformed. . .
and I did give him a computer last summer, but he can't even trust himself to check the email. He hates the thing. <sigh>
It's maddening.

[acmejack]

41. I fully agree

A diet of Faux News does that to people. To make it worse many of my friends also drink the kool aid, completely abandoning their (and my) ideals. It is terrible seeing your best friends of 50 years abandoning you because of your politics is quite depressing. It is no fun to be a blue dot in a sea of red. On the bright side, at least my Dad will still talk to me, just not about politics.

[mmonk]

17. Welcome to our universe of reality

as opposed to their alternate one. Drives you crazy, doesn't it?

[proud patriot]

18. Me ..well I try to talk and inform as many people as I can

:hi: I have used my clothes , house and car
to inform people for close to 4 years now .

[FreedomAngel82]

19. I know how you feel

I know all types of stuff on the Bush family and what's going on now (thanks to the internet and here) and I so wanna tell some people but the only people I talk to about stuff like this is my mother and brother who don't like Bush at all.

[mopinko]

22. i make buttons nt

[tavalon]

31. Well, it looks like my many bumperstickers are about to be recycled

You appear to have most of these buttons as vinyl bumperstickers, yes? Wow, this is some no holds barred, good shit you've got there. Kudos!

The one bumpersticker I won't recycle is my Kerry/Edwards bumpersticker. I'm stealing a line from a fellow DUer here: In case of rapture, I want Jesus to know I didn't vote for the antichrist!

[mopinko]

43. yup, stickers of any button

no sense holding back in therapy. that's what it is.
it is a terrible knowledge. you can't keep it in.

[Just Me]

24. I have "knowledge". I know that "truth" cannot be revealed without,...

,...knowledge.

I also believe that WE, collectively, cannot reach for truth without knowledge.

My frustration lies only in the fact that so little "knowledge" reaches the people.

[grannylib]

26. I think that collectively and as individuals we CAN make a difference;

we have to persist in trying to disseminate that knowledge in ways that will resonate with the people who are in the dark, and will motivate those who DO know but think it's good enough to let others worry about it or work to change it.
I know, it's frustrating as HELL to see many seemingly intelligent people so taken in by the shallow, style-over-substance bullshit tossed around by reThug politicians, and the damage being done to everyday people and their lives in the name of heaven knows what...
But we have to persevere!

[spikesmom]

25. Reid and Pelosi Selling Us Out On Immigration

Right when we think they are on our side and fighting on the right issues(Social Security privatization)they side Fascist George on being the welcoming committee for all the illegal mexicans


http://www.fairus.org/media/media.cfm?id=2664&c=34

[G_j]

29. "Us" ? "our side" ?

speak for yourself, thanks
"imigration reform" is not my most pressing issue, and I live in NC.
:hi:

[ngGale]

32. Well, I live in NC to and I'm becoming a...

hermit. I can't make people listen, they don't even want the subject brought up. Bush is moral man and I should be grateful that God put him in office. <barf>

[DARE to HOPE]

36. Tell them to Google Bohemian grove...

..."moral man" is he?!! Every Republican president since Coolidge.... Connections to Franklin and MK-ULTRA, to the pedophile ring of Bush 41, down to the prostitute in the White House press room connected to soliciting of U.S. army ranger personnel!

"You have a pretty face." (Wh-a-at?) "You have a pretty face. You are much prettier than our Scott."

Tell them--just look up Bohemian Grove--if they DARE.

Then tell them to look up www.newamericancentury.org, the PNAC Website that others have suggested.

[Tigress DEM]

34. I go to crowded resturants and talk excitedly with my friends...

and quietly watch as the truth gets leaked out a bit at a time.

The whisper campaigns have begun.

I read INDY and TruthOut until I am full up and I went to the M19 protest in Minneapolis, MN to feel like I'm moving. I write to the newspapers when they don't report stuff, I tell them to stuff their paper if they aren't going to report real news. I support alternative news sources that DO tell the truth.

I live my life. I go out with friends and on vacation.... actually with a hard line repub this year. We'll see what happens. How long does it take to swim back from Aruba?

[anarchy1999]

35. Try and to be calm and secure in the knowlegdge you believe you have.

Eat whole foods, drink clean water and spend time with like minded friends. It will all work out in the end, on way or the other.

[OneBlueSky]

38. most don't want to know the truth . . .

lost, as they are, in the "dark raptures of nonstop infotainment, recreational shopping, and compulsive motoring" . . . (see this Rolling Stone article) . . . http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7203633?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1111686680548&has-player=true

what they want more than anything is for no one to upset their apple carts . . . so instead of preparing for what's to come (and maybe helping to lessen the impact), they'll just continue doing what they're doing, oblivious to the world beyond their own personal sphere . . .

when the fecal matter impacts the rotating electrical appliance, they're gonna be fucked . . . unfortunately, so are we . . .

[clovis29]

44. But what can we do?

But spread the real truth by any means necessary!

[Spider Jerusalem]

39. They probably wouldn't care.

And most likely couldn't be bothered to think about it. After all, the baseball season starts soon, and there's "Survivor" and "American Idol" to watch...

Most Americans are willfully ignorant, and quite happily so.

[Minstrel Boy]

40. For most Americans to know, it will mean the end of America.

The end of the national myths. Most don't want to let go of them.

It will take a catastrophe to finish them. And not on the order of Vietnam.


Most Germans only knew in 1945.