Deselecting The Democrats

I will never forgive the main stream media (MSM) for the transparently flagrant "selection" actions they have taken during the primaries. The certainly of my conviction on this is modified by two factors:

First I have not followed the campaigns and the debates with enough enthusiasm or interest to make my knowledge at all comprehensive. And second, I have heard few others on the left make this argument in quite this way.

I do not believe the media and their corporate masters have exerted nearly the same degree of selection on the Republican side of the campaigns and in the debates that they have made on their Democratic counterparts. I'm sure they think the Republicans are pretty much their boys and when one of them does come to power, he will behave in a manner favorable to their interests.

They even feel safe enough not to deselect Ron Paul because his views will have no influence on the Party platform and he has been quite successfully marginalized, in spite a late groundswell of popular support. They know that the voice of the people is of secondary consideration to the Republicans anyway. By now everyone knows popular opinion is something to be manipulated, not listened to.

If there is any selection going on here it may be in the form of encouraging the candidacy of John McCain over Huckabee and Romney, two pretty well certifiable loony theocrats. Old John does have a proven track record of selling out on important issues and is more likely to be able to be manipulated by corporate interests than a couple of self confessed religious zealots.

In the case of the Democrats, it seems to be a different story altogether. First of all, Dennis Kucinich was pretty successfully ignored by the press, both on the campaign trail and even in the debates. I did hear that he was asked some pretty serious questions concerning flying saucers.

When poor Dennis failed to get the message to just shut up and go away, they merely excluded him from the debates altogether. Now why didn't they just give him the Ron Paul treatment and let him bounce along at the end of the train like some hapless caboose?

Unlike Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich is the genuine conscience of his Party. I am a little surprised no cartoonist has yet portrayed him as Jiminy Cricket sitting on the shoulder of a long nosed Bill or Hillary Clinton. I guess the reference is just too archaic. He was right about the war, he is right on health care, corporate influence on the government and a host of other important issues.

The thing the MSM cannot tolerate is that Dennis does have the ear of the progressives and the Dean liberals in the Party... the very people who could be influential in drafting the Party platform and relentlessly browbeating the remaining two candidates not to ignore their promises when nominated. I am not sure how sincere Edwards was about really ending the war, but I did know Kucinich was. Kucinich read the same papers critical of a preemptive strike on Iraq and the WMD, that John Edwards and Hillary Clinton ignored.

Kucinich is someone the big defense contractors will not tolerate. By now, most people pretty much accept that the reason for our continued presence in Iraq is somehow tied up with big oil. I think that at least a second big reason is nothing more or less than literally to transfer money from the Treasury to the corporations, like Raytheon/General Electric, KB&R, etc, etc. The most efficient way to do this is through defense related contracts. War is the ultimate consumer activity. The product is immensely expensive and is consumed utterly.

Everyone is in on this game: all the Republicans (except of course Ron Paul) and nearly all the Democrats. Toward the end, I was beginning to think Edwards didn't buy the corporate game. I think this may have played the biggest part in his deselection by the press.

I do believe that the American public is finally beginning to get wise to the shell game that has been going on lo these many generations. The war profiteering, the health care scam and the welfare for the rich in the form of these tax cuts have been conducted with such flagrant impunity by the Bushies that only a blind, def, and dumb one could fail to notice. Of course any Republican President can be expected to keep this scam going at the present rate of speed.

Only a Democrat can stand a chance of at least trying to roll it back to a less obvious pre Bush level. This possibility, literally scares the shit out of the corporate power structure, their MSM enablers and the army of government officials and office holders on the payroll. No one ever gives up power voluntarily and they are not about to do so now. That is why I find comments like Wolf Blitzer's as reported in Common Dreams News Center, Rich Media, Poor Debates by Jamison Foser.

There will be an increased attempt to dilute and deflect any message the Democrats make concerning a more equitable distribution of wealth, a roll back of Defense and any attempt to go against the pharmaceutical/medical establishment.

Now that the primary "deselection" process is complete, I believe the process of the deselection of the Democrats themselves will really begin in earnest.

As I said, my reflections on this matter are based solely upon only the most superficial analysis of the MSM news and the media in general. In this time when everyone is glued to the TV for the latest election results and news of Britney, I am disconnecting even further from the great electronic teat. Like Plato's Caveman/Philosopher, I find my only salvation is to pull away from these tantalizing, shadowy images on the screen cast by even deeper illusions and head toward the light...

Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt

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