What a week. Romney continues to be asleep, and the MSM continue to engage not simply in grossly biased reportage but to simply make things up. This past week has seen the media not make an issue out of a Libya story that is just a lie, promote polls that are grossly oversampled for democrats, manufacture audio for a tape so that it makes Romney look like a fool and fail to report on Obama's overt support of wealth redistribution while making so much out of a fundraising dinner speech by Romney. Mercifully more than half of Americans no longer use radio or newspapers as their primary news source, although it is disturbing to think of how many use TV. You have to get on the internet and read widely to get any sense of truth. BBC is good for this, since they are a foreign station looking at the US. For a nice article about the press, go here.
Speaking of polls, take a look at this article and this one. Here's another, and more, and some more (a really good one). But this is the best one of all. The polls trumpeted by the MSM are oversampling Democrats not by a little, but are assuming the greatest Democratic turnout in history. And somehow this is not news for the MSM. Instead the outlandish results of these polls are made news. And Quinnipiac isn't even among the ones polling. You remember them. That is the organization that predicted a 5 point Kerry win in 2004. Look again at the article about the predicting of a Carter win over Reagan. The articles are as late as October 23. And Carter lost by 10 points.
How long do we keep pretending that these organizations are reporting news? When do we have the Emperor's New Clothes moment, when we as a society collectively say 'this is just trash'?
And here is what the Fed is doing. While we read nearly pure fantasy our government is printing money to buy up debt so our interest rates are kept low. At a time of trillion dollar deficits.
So why am I ranting? Because if Obama wins we as a nation will have made a statement about ourselves. We will be saying to our media 'Thank you, I prefer palatable fiction over real information'. We will be saying to our government 'Thank you, I can't take care of my own life and I want a do-over when I screw up or something bad happens'. We will be saying 'Thank you, I like the image of prosperity built on debt over the reality of wealth and real security'. We will be saying 'I want that fake security more than I want to try and be independent and achieving'.
And as long as we continue to value success only as money then most people will continue to feel worthless and accept governmental security over the perceived emptiness of their own lives. That's a thought error we can all correct. There is dignity and achievement in anything done well, and measuring all of life and success by money is a dehumanizing trap.
If we re-elect Obama we will be agreeing with every one of the above false statements. Do you agree with them? Do you want them to be true? That is what we are voting about. Self-definition and societal definition. Democrats want to define Republicans as uncaring because we support a smaller government. It is Democrats who are truly uncaring because they support the role of the government over the individual and foster envy of the wealthy rather than a valuing of the dignity of all people. It is Democrats who tell us that we must have more to be valued, must have more to be secure. And they will generate that more by taking it from others and giving it away through government. Now really, do you believe in that? All that does is degrade everyone.
Our vote is about who we are, and how we want to live. I hope people will think about that when they vote.
Ted
Speaking of polls, take a look at this article and this one. Here's another, and more, and some more (a really good one). But this is the best one of all. The polls trumpeted by the MSM are oversampling Democrats not by a little, but are assuming the greatest Democratic turnout in history. And somehow this is not news for the MSM. Instead the outlandish results of these polls are made news. And Quinnipiac isn't even among the ones polling. You remember them. That is the organization that predicted a 5 point Kerry win in 2004. Look again at the article about the predicting of a Carter win over Reagan. The articles are as late as October 23. And Carter lost by 10 points.
How long do we keep pretending that these organizations are reporting news? When do we have the Emperor's New Clothes moment, when we as a society collectively say 'this is just trash'?
And here is what the Fed is doing. While we read nearly pure fantasy our government is printing money to buy up debt so our interest rates are kept low. At a time of trillion dollar deficits.
So why am I ranting? Because if Obama wins we as a nation will have made a statement about ourselves. We will be saying to our media 'Thank you, I prefer palatable fiction over real information'. We will be saying to our government 'Thank you, I can't take care of my own life and I want a do-over when I screw up or something bad happens'. We will be saying 'Thank you, I like the image of prosperity built on debt over the reality of wealth and real security'. We will be saying 'I want that fake security more than I want to try and be independent and achieving'.
And as long as we continue to value success only as money then most people will continue to feel worthless and accept governmental security over the perceived emptiness of their own lives. That's a thought error we can all correct. There is dignity and achievement in anything done well, and measuring all of life and success by money is a dehumanizing trap.
If we re-elect Obama we will be agreeing with every one of the above false statements. Do you agree with them? Do you want them to be true? That is what we are voting about. Self-definition and societal definition. Democrats want to define Republicans as uncaring because we support a smaller government. It is Democrats who are truly uncaring because they support the role of the government over the individual and foster envy of the wealthy rather than a valuing of the dignity of all people. It is Democrats who tell us that we must have more to be valued, must have more to be secure. And they will generate that more by taking it from others and giving it away through government. Now really, do you believe in that? All that does is degrade everyone.
Our vote is about who we are, and how we want to live. I hope people will think about that when they vote.
Ted
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