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Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 08:59 PM Oct 2012

The Media is proof that America's culture is downright sociopathic.

Last edited Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:47 PM - Edit history (1)

Mitt Romney says single mothers are the cause of mass shootings.
Mitt Romney says 47% of Americans are parasites not worthy of his time.
A billionaire in Australia says workers should work for $2 a day if they're to be competitive.
Some other idiot says children born out of wedlock should be taken away and their parents killed.
Todd Akin says a "legitimate rape" can't lead to pregnancy.
Charlie Fuqua (another Republican) talks about the Biblical Book of Leviticus justifying killing rebellious kids.

This got plenty of air time on the underground media - the left-of-center blogs, DU, what have you.

But none of that shit got as much air time as even the shitfest I watched on TV about Obama's response to the embassy attack in Benghazi, which the media thought was weak.

Even the war on women BARELY took longer than the Benghazi incident to jump the shark on prime time TV. No wonder Todd Akin is so close to winning... I haven't heard about him AT ALL on TV. AT ALL!!! There seems to be no way to get people pissed off at this shit in a big way. You talk about raising taxes on the rich, though, and the firestorm is on.

Obama's going to win this. But we've got bigger problems than the increasingly unlikely scenario of an Obama loss. Yes, bigger problems than even that. Romney should be in a position that makes even Bob Dole (see: his campaign against Clinton) laugh at him. He should end this campaign in November with 0 electoral votes. At the very least, Romney should have zero support among women and independent voters. ZERO. But he is still hanging onto Obama's leg like a bulldog with no teeth. This goes beyond our GOTV performance, beyond voter suppression, and even beyond the media.

The real problem is that we have a culture of sheer evil that dominates this country. In this country way too many people yawned when Republicans threw around rape like it's a joke, attacked women for using birth control, talked about killing unwed parents, and yapped about how useless 47% of the country is. We have politicians who utter this shit knowing full well that the damage will be limited among the general populace at worst, and in the most likely case won't even bother their Republican base.

Despite all this madness, Obama still stands one big slip-up away from defeat. One.

A culture that stands one bullshit gaffe away from electing a monster who associates with monsters such as those listed above, is one that is as close to beyond rehabilitation as one can get without taking us back to Germany in 1939.

You live next to these people who couldn't be bothered to give a shit about calling 47% of Americans parasites. These people will linger long after Romney is beaten. You should be terrified of them: there is something broken in their souls that will come to allow worse sentiments than this to fester.

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The Media is proof that America's culture is downright sociopathic. (Original Post) Zalatix Oct 2012 OP
A media shitstorm about these things would destroy the business annabanana Oct 2012 #1
A Major Republican Blunder Pbs1914 Oct 2012 #2
Exactly. Schwarzenegger is an issue that only keeps coming up because he keeps talking. Zalatix Oct 2012 #3
Xzactly! Or make manly noise (Dean scream) and... upi402 Oct 2012 #5
Thank you sunnystarr Oct 2012 #4
I've moved past frustration to the point of fear. Zalatix Oct 2012 #7
well it's not as if it were as important as a flag lapel-pin leftyohiolib Oct 2012 #6
Capitalism is sociopathic. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #8

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
1. A media shitstorm about these things would destroy the business
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:01 PM
Oct 2012

model for the whole election season. They can't get as much for advertising when everyone knows how it's going to turn out.

Pbs1914

(147 posts)
2. A Major Republican Blunder
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:02 PM
Oct 2012

lasts for say, 24 hours usually, but God forbid a congressman from New York sends a picture of himself in gray boxers
to some woman in California. Thats when the REAL investigative reporting comes!!!!!! OOO Oh BOIY, that's the crime of the century.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
3. Exactly. Schwarzenegger is an issue that only keeps coming up because he keeps talking.
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:05 PM
Oct 2012

Governor Sanford jumped the shark day 2, except for (IIRC) a Saturday Night Live skit comparing his love letters to Mark Foley's.

WTF...

upi402

(16,854 posts)
5. Xzactly! Or make manly noise (Dean scream) and...
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:09 PM
Oct 2012

The CNN tapeloop of character assassination gets flicked on.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
7. I've moved past frustration to the point of fear.
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 09:43 PM
Oct 2012

The media fires off these gaffes into the world - instead of going off like nuclear bombs in Public-Relationspace, the public lets it fade off like a puny fart in the midst of a hurricane. The public hears about it; they just don't care.

Only sociopaths shrug off the shit the GOP is spouting now. We have a deeply sociopathic culture and a culture like that is destined to explode.

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