Reply #34: "This thing is history."--no evidence for it. "Along with hope"--says who?

[Peace Patriot]

Really, go away with your hopeless talk! Democracy is not over until the last believer in democracy is dead!

If you depend on "white knights" to save our country and our democracy, "hope" may well be dead in YOUR heart sooner than among those who really believe in democracy: the collective realizations, will and action of the people. You say they remain "in a media-induced propaganda coma." That may be true of the some of the people. Is it true of all? And what may those who are NOT "in a media-induced propaganda coma" do to help those who are? And--a very important question, in my view--how much of YOUR hopelessness is itself based on "media-induced propaganda coma"? To what extent are the war profiteering corporate news monopolies fostering YOUR feelings of powerlessness, isolation, despair, demoralization, and a belief that OTHER Americans are brainwashed or have gone nuts?

There is in fact considerable evidence that the American people HAVEN'T BOUGHT the 24/7 propaganda, and are in fact far better informed and more progressive than anyone gives them credit for, but many are mired in despair and powerlessness, just as you are, because the subtler messages have succeeded--the messages of powerlessness and hopelessness.

Truly, I see this situation in terms of of REAL POWER, not FEELINGS of power or FEELINGS of lack of power. I also don't see it as primarily having to do with the issues or propaganda on the issues. The fascists have gained the power to "count" all our votes with 'TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, controlled by Bushite electronic voting corporations. So, no matter we think, THEIR views have an illusion of support. We need to stop buying into these illusions, and start addressing the mechanism of power. The coma succeeds not because Bush is supported on the issues. It succeeds because it makes people like you feel that "It is over--along with hope."

Please think about this. I am not attacking you. I think we all, every one of us, suffers from the coma/illusion that OTHER Americans don't share our views. The problem is how to EMPOWER the views of MOST Americans, which are, in fact, anti-Bush in every possible way, on all issues, and very anti-Iraq war?