There's only us Bozos on this bus
There is a sense of malaise, an odor of overpowering wrong-headedness that seems to permeate the very air around us all. The reason or reasons why are not easily discerned, yet the consequences stemming from actions taken in such an atmosphere adversely impact each of us daily. Consider:
A nation's economy is booming and has been for five straight years, the deficit is cut in half in one-tenth the projected time, national tax revenues are at an all-time high, and yet the mainstream media chooses to project the potential for future fiscal gloom rather than any inkling of this phenomenal success story - for five years.
Oops, a thousand pardons.
A nation is at war with troops in the field and yet its congressional representatives further the enemy's cause by demanding actions guaranteed to kill its own soldiers, wreak economic havoc on its own people, and weaken national defense capabilities.
Er, so sorry.
A nation's sovereignty is under assault, its security, social services, and national identity crumbling due to an alien invasion yet its disingenuous elected representatives publicly debate unworkable solutions while they malevolently do nothing in order to strengthen their political party's future voter base.
Oh dear.
Presidential hopefuls attack one another fully eighteen months before an election, field inane questions from mindless YouTube denizens, set daily records for raising campaign cash while snug in the censorship cocoon of McCain-Feingold, all while savaging a sitting administration and impugning the nation's government, prestige, and honor in the eyes of the world.
Gee, my bad.
Just what's going on here?
Come on ... you know. I shouldn't have to explain. A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76 percent disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll. The 18 percent job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several serious congressional scandals.
The cabal of wealthy elites which now controls the U.S. Congress is of the collective belief that we Americans are simple, stupid, flyover-country rubes who will swallow any lie, believe any politically-driven attack on our nation's traditions and values. They, with the unswerving support of their media lapdogs, condescendingly rule with an ill-disguised contempt for Joe and Jane Citizen.
A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first began tracking public opinion of Congress in 1974. Just 18 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing; 76 percent disapprove.
They could not be more wrong, yet they are dumbfounded by the negative backlash. And while the majority of elite media do their political party's bidding by meting out daily dosages of gloom, fear, and venom, it only serves to further strengthen the trends of plummeting newspaper circulations, shrinking advertising revenues, and hemorrhaging broadcast viewer ratings.
What to do?
The construction of this national Gloomsday Scenario has been a long time in the making, chiefly promulgated by academia, the new Democrat Party, and media toadies. Such attitudes reflect a strongly-held notion of America - they despise it as it is and wish to shape it into a more progressive (i.e., socialist) image.
Mainstream media carries the elitist message packaged as news - morphed and distorted - but there are alternative sources. Each day, more and more of us rubes learn this fact and cancel our newspaper subscriptions, stop our advertising in certain media outlets, and switch to alternative radio and television channels.
They want Americans who are afraid, who will not take responsibility for their actions, who think they cannot make it without government assistance or intervention in every facet of life.
Despite a daily inundation of propaganda to the contrary, nothing, and I mean nothing, is free. Someone must always pay. Bear that in mind the next time you're spoon-fed another sweet-sounding, heaven-sent entitlement pipe dream - start digging for the truth on your own.