Media Matters has a pretty complete and comprehensive list of smears against Barack Obama, originating with, and repeated by members of the press.
This really goes beyond digging up dirt on the guy so they can have something negative to broadcast. He just entered the race two weeks ago and they haven't even let him trip up on his own -- no, they're doing everything they can to nip this campaign in the bud, and it's not working.
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I just recently read an article in the Metro where they were asking peoples opinions on the electability of Obama and way too many people were talking about how his name is scary and that people won't vote for him for that reason. I do have to say that when people are stupid democracy stops working.
If that's Matt's fear, then one could argue democracy has never worked. When was the last time people as a majority, weren't stupid? I'm just sayin, people have always been surprisingly dim. I think we just become increasingly more aware of the depth of idiocy that ebbs upon modern culture. Regardless of where we look, stupidity has been sliding beneath the surface (cough...electoral college...cough). I don't say this to degrade the majority, nor to say we, and our circle of friends, are phenomenally intelligent, although the thought is implied.
I was reading that actual tangible intelligence isn't getting worse, just applicable in different situations than prior generations. Pop culture trivia and computer literacy, more so than political information. Which I would blame on attention deficit. which means people spend less time on facts, and more time talking about how the names of candidates make them feel.
This comment quickly got out of hand, I'm sorry.
The problem with popular democracy is that over all people are astoundingly simple. I'm not saying "people" as a means to displace myself, I'm very much included. It's not difficult to figure out what it is that people want in life or what buttons to push. The problem, I think is that the buttons have become no less easy to spot than they used to be when the church was in charge of everything. Perhaps that's not the case, perhaps they have become harder, but that the ways to spot them have evolved along side them, much like defensive and offensive techniques in everything else.
As we get more complex so too does the power structure and those in charge of it find ways to figure our wants out. It also has gotten extremly good at giving us something to appease us along the way to giving us our grand desire in the end. I'm thinking specificly of trading us security and material wealth for liberty and a world where security isn't as much of a neccesity. Granted I may be being extremely abstract but I think you (eavvon and TJ) understand what I mean.
I could go into a diatribe about the true meaning and value of anarchy or as a counter-posit with almost as much validity the naturalness of an oligarchy in human society and nature. I think I'll leave those for another time and go to bed.
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