Naraku
01-08-2008, 11:38 PM
People have lost hope. They've stopped believing they have power. People now believe the political elite, the corporate tycoons, and mass media are stronger. I have a news flash, we outnumber them 1,000 to 1. The establishment knows it's only power over us is the power we exert on ourselves. We can outvote them if we vote our conscience, not our expectations. Unfortunately, they control the levers of public opinion. They run the polls, they run the media, they run the government, they run the economy. However, they're nothing without us. So they need to control us to have any power.
The media plays up certain individuals, hypes them up as possible presidents, then gives them a splash of coverage the moment they enter. Polls show these well-known candidates above any unknowns due to the simple fact they're known more. Sometimes just having money is reason to be considered well-known. People are convinced they need to tune out every one but those high in the polls, even if they don't like them or agree with them. Media coverage is driven, not by the decisions of informed voters, but voters led to believe they can only vote for people who win and that only people who are already well-known can win. However, people are only well-known because the media makes them well-known. They're only well-known in the media because they have the money or influence to get into the media.
These are the odds we're against, but the truth is, the odds are against them. The establishment is a large team of magicians. Like good magicians they try to keep you distracted so you don't see what they're doing with their hands. Reciting poll figures and talking up an individual's wealth, but yet when Ron Paul is higher in the polls than establishment candidates, his name is not there. When he raises millions of dollars, more than establishment candidates, he is still ignored, regarded as a longshot. Why? They don't want you to see what they're doing with their hands. They're trying to make an idea, a message, a group disappear. By distracting us, convincing us he stands no chance they break our spirits and prevent support from spreading. Then, when disenchanted voters seeing no chance for his success give up, they get the results they predicted through manipulation of the people, convincing even more people that they truly are magic and really can predict the future.
However, again, we are stronger than them. Our numbers greatly surpass theirs. That's why they want to distract us, they want us not to vote, to keep our hopelessness, that way we can be silenced and our voices drowned out in the endless stream of mass media reports. A people without hope are a people without strength. This is the game of every ruling elite. However, their magic is effective only if you pretend the trick worked.
I have talked to people who say they agree with Paul on everything, but say he won't win. I talked to one person who said elections are for voting against who you like LESS. People have lost hope. Millions of people would vote for Ron Paul if they voted for what they truly believed was right or if they simply knew what he stood for. Voters have said their issue is not the war, but Paul is called a longshot because he defies the party on the one issue the voters have already said doesn't matter. The trick won't work unless we pretend it does.
That's why we're losing. We're pretending it works. We're pretending that a poll tells us who will win before we even vote. We then vote for who we think will win according to the polls. People have been corralled into pens we've made for ourselves by listening to the dictates of an establishment that lets us believe freedom is about getting our rights from the government and that voting exists to choose the lighter shade of black. The establishment hasn't enslaved us, they've made us enslave ourselves. We've been forced to give up what we truly believe deep down to be the right thing to do. We should remind the country that we are the majority, not the corporate or political establishment, but we the people are the majority. Power belongs to us. We decide who we vote for, no one else.
It's time America redeclared its independence.
The media plays up certain individuals, hypes them up as possible presidents, then gives them a splash of coverage the moment they enter. Polls show these well-known candidates above any unknowns due to the simple fact they're known more. Sometimes just having money is reason to be considered well-known. People are convinced they need to tune out every one but those high in the polls, even if they don't like them or agree with them. Media coverage is driven, not by the decisions of informed voters, but voters led to believe they can only vote for people who win and that only people who are already well-known can win. However, people are only well-known because the media makes them well-known. They're only well-known in the media because they have the money or influence to get into the media.
These are the odds we're against, but the truth is, the odds are against them. The establishment is a large team of magicians. Like good magicians they try to keep you distracted so you don't see what they're doing with their hands. Reciting poll figures and talking up an individual's wealth, but yet when Ron Paul is higher in the polls than establishment candidates, his name is not there. When he raises millions of dollars, more than establishment candidates, he is still ignored, regarded as a longshot. Why? They don't want you to see what they're doing with their hands. They're trying to make an idea, a message, a group disappear. By distracting us, convincing us he stands no chance they break our spirits and prevent support from spreading. Then, when disenchanted voters seeing no chance for his success give up, they get the results they predicted through manipulation of the people, convincing even more people that they truly are magic and really can predict the future.
However, again, we are stronger than them. Our numbers greatly surpass theirs. That's why they want to distract us, they want us not to vote, to keep our hopelessness, that way we can be silenced and our voices drowned out in the endless stream of mass media reports. A people without hope are a people without strength. This is the game of every ruling elite. However, their magic is effective only if you pretend the trick worked.
I have talked to people who say they agree with Paul on everything, but say he won't win. I talked to one person who said elections are for voting against who you like LESS. People have lost hope. Millions of people would vote for Ron Paul if they voted for what they truly believed was right or if they simply knew what he stood for. Voters have said their issue is not the war, but Paul is called a longshot because he defies the party on the one issue the voters have already said doesn't matter. The trick won't work unless we pretend it does.
That's why we're losing. We're pretending it works. We're pretending that a poll tells us who will win before we even vote. We then vote for who we think will win according to the polls. People have been corralled into pens we've made for ourselves by listening to the dictates of an establishment that lets us believe freedom is about getting our rights from the government and that voting exists to choose the lighter shade of black. The establishment hasn't enslaved us, they've made us enslave ourselves. We've been forced to give up what we truly believe deep down to be the right thing to do. We should remind the country that we are the majority, not the corporate or political establishment, but we the people are the majority. Power belongs to us. We decide who we vote for, no one else.
It's time America redeclared its independence.