Robert Parry: This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Any More

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Consortium News / By Robert Parry

This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Any More
As Election Day 2010 approaches, the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.


September 16, 2010 | As Election Day 2010 approaches – as the United States wallows in the swamps of war, recession and environmental degradation – the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.

Yet, despite the danger, the nation can’t seem to move in a positive direction, as if the suctioning effect of endless spin, half-truths and lies holds the populace in place, a force that grows ever more powerful like quicksand sucking the country deeper into the muck – to waist deep, then neck deep.

Trapped in the mud, millions of Americans are complaining about their loss of economic status, their sense of powerlessness, their nation’s decline. But instead of examining how the country stumbled into this morass, many still choose not to face reality.

Instead of seeking paths to the firmer ground of a reality-based world, people from different parts of the political spectrum have decided to embrace unreality even more, either cynically as a way to delegitimize a political opponent or because they’ve simply become addicted to the crazy. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/news/148206/this_country_just_can%27t_deal_with_reality_any_more/

[BeFree]

1. T-Bagger response

If we didn't have a black man in office everything would be fine.

It is the Liberals fault that bush was not as successful as he could have been. (TRUE)

We baggers don't mind killing the brown man, or our poor, or the earth in general, because if we allow them to live they will rule the world and us whites will be a minority and revenge on us, by all rights, will be brutal.

:puke:

[lunatica]

2. It's the price of deliberately engineered ignorance

All those lies, spin and manipulations were done for a purpose. That purpose was so the wealthy elite could have all the power. Eventually it will bite them in the ass as their karmic adjustment pulls them down too.

[blm]

3. BushInc's fascist pals didn't buy control of newsmedia in the 80s and 90s to preserve democracy

or inform the public of issues that would matter to their wellbeing.

[Thav]

4. The more you prove them wrong

They hold on to their misguided beliefs tighter and tout them even more rabidly.