General Discussion

Last edited Tue Oct 14, 2014, 10:41 AM - Edit history (2)

Glad you're here! It's a HUMDINGER of a campaign commercial. Evidently put forward by a Democratic-leaning outfit called the Agenda Project:

http://agendaproject.org/what_we_do.html

Man, I'm gonna watch these people. They just hit one all the way to Mars. It occurred to me that if I have to narrow the focus of my campaign donations - since there's no way I can afford to support every campaign, candidate, and worthy cause/organization that I wish I could, a group like THIS is what to support. If we can win decisively on the propaganda war front, maybe a lot of those individual campaigns and causes and candidates and organizations might be furthered - anyway. Just systemically.

THIS is the kind of one-minute spot that "catapults the propaganda" in the OTHER direction, for a change - the way WE want it to go. It goes straight for the jugular of the whole republi-CON/reagan era world view - how government is only there to cut. Gummnt BAAAAAD. Starve the beast. Shrink it down so small you can drown it in - well, a puddle of Ebola. Happy NOW, grover norquist? All we've heard for the past 30+ years is cut cut cut, more cuts more cuts more cuts. Cuts in funding and tax cuts for the rich which are all financed by still MORE cuts in funding. No government! Government bad! Government off your back! Cut it back! Cut it back! And then cut it back some more! And unfortunately, sometimes it's with a myopic meat-axe like the sequester, and you get thoughtless, reckless, short-sighted, idiotic cuts, penny-wise/pound-EXTREMELY-foolish cuts and the NIH and CDC daring to point out that we might have had a vaccine for this scary new disease by now if it wasn't all about cuts cuts cuts cuts cuts and more cuts in research funding - over a DECADE...

That's the the mindset, the thinking (the STINKING thinking) that has to be reversed. Shut down. Done AWAY with. We have to take our fellow citizens' BRAINS back. Their thinking and reasoning. They've been conditioned and brainwashed into this shit being gooo-ooood. And look what's happened!

Let's see, as long as we're at it, what else?
There might be more staffers at these hospitals, to better spread and facilitate the "buddy system" approach to protecting health care workers from exposure to virus.
Texas is getting to be just fine with gravel roads. GRAVEL roads!
Our infrastructure is slowly but surely deteriorating - that means bridges, highways, and city streets.
We still have levees needing attention. Forgot Katrina so soon? This could become even more critically important in the years ahead, as global warming promotes more melting of the polar caps and a rise in ocean levels.
Our children are going hungry.
Our infant mortality is up.
Our youth can't afford college, loans are sky high, and programs to assist are always on the endangered species list.
Our state budgets can't absorb the problems that come from tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, wild and catastrophic and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions, droughts, algae blooms, toxic dumps, freak explosions, mudslides, landslides, forest fires, oil spills, lightening strikes, and other problems, let alone Ebola. And what about that other virus now, too?
Our poor are falling farther behind with fewer resources to help them.
Our health care infrastructure is strained to the max as privatizing encourages cuts in staffing so those left on the job have to do more with less.
Our post offices are in the cross-hairs.
Let's sneer at the exhorbitant folly of studying volcanos - until a big one blows up unexpectedly in Europe and cripples the airline industry first on that continent and soon enough, across the globe. RIGHT, bobby jindal?
Hospitals can't stay open.

We could go on all night like this, listing all the stuff.

Penny-wise, POUND-FOOLISH!!!

We have to roll THAT back. THAT is what has to change. THAT is what has to be --- wait for it --- CUT.

Otherwise we can never really hope to see many decent candidates voted into office or causes advanced or policy issues gain higher priority. We have to change the public mindset. We have to ruin the GOP brand. Truly. We have to shit on THEIR brand. Make it stink to high heaven! Turn it into something that people speak about with a curled lip (the way the bad guys DID do quite a hose job on the word "liberal&quot .

MAN, is this EVER a case of attacking somebody at their strength (kkkarl rove's favorite strategy).

This needs to run on every TV station in America. And this needs to be - just the beginning.

on edit - add: HERE IS WHERE YOU CAN DONATE, if you feel so inclined (my last few bucks. Went HERE this morning):

http://apaction.com

http://agendaproject.org/give