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Americans: A Silly People Concerned by the Inane While the World Burns

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Obama plans to speak directly to students Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. His address will be shown live on the White House Web site and on C-SPAN at noon EDT, a time when classrooms across the country will be able to tune in.

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I am an American. I was born and raised in the heartland of the Midwest. But I have a difficult problem trying to understand many Americans.

We have tremendous and sometimes horrendous problems that are facing America and humanity. Rather than dealing with these problems, we have a political machine and a managed media that present a fake left/right, conservative/liberal paradigm. Most Americans fall for this foolishness and they argue over the inane.

This controversy over President Obama giving an address to school students is a perfect example of stupidity gone berserk.

I guess many Americans have never heard of a civics lesson or that their President is supposed to represent the people. No, a lot of Americans think that President Obama's talk urging students to stay in school and get an education is an evil tyrannical plot to control the minds of kids.

Now keep in mind that schools don't have to show President Obama's speech and that it is on a topic all Americans should endorse, this speech is considered by the nearly lunatic here in America as a type of totalitarian gimmick straight out of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union.

A bizarre state Senator Steve Russell says, "As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality. This is something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."

The type of reasoning displayed by state Senator Russell is what passes for leadership here in much of America.

So while we have 2 wars raging, the banksters have looted the treasury, real unemployment is running near 20%, a depression grows, and 100 million Americans are without adequate healthcare, we have Americans upset over an address the President wants to give to students.

I am completely serious when I write that I sometimes feel as if I am trapped amongst a type of zombie race of people that have lost common sense and reasoning by a mass disease that attacks and destroys the frontal lobe.

But in reality, Americans are the product of a mass of people raised on commercial television and fascist political propaganda. Americans have been told what to think, what to buy, how to behave, and how to feel from corporate advertising and ideology that is instilled in them in every aspect of their lives. Americans believe that their consumerist thoughts and behaviors are somehow individualistic, but they are programed into them from their earliest childhood.

The result of this total corporatist brain washing of nearly all Americans is that they have lost their awareness and their reason.

We are presently facing a fascist agenda that has contributed to the collapse of our ecosystem along with the collapse of a world economy. It is imperative that Americans move past the lies, the programming, the propaganda, and the ignorance presented by the Military Industrial Mind Control Complex and into Awareness and Good Sense.

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Your anger is fine, your target wrong - by siamdave on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:31:55 AM
How do you spell "consistency"? by Jason Racette on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:42:24 AM
Not Inconsistent by Grant Lawrence on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:28:42 PM
I smell hypocrisy by Jason Racette on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:29:09 PM
That is Completely Correct...BUT! by Alice Lillie on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:39:20 PM
Trust issues?? by sandra e ray on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:57:54 PM
So Presidents Can't Talk to Kids? by Grant Lawrence on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:32:13 PM
He can talk by Dave Kisor on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:47:07 PM
TV etc. substitutes stupid cliches for common sense by John Hanks on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:22:25 PM
I am Not Sure What you Meant Here by Grant Lawrence on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:30:00 PM
We live in an insane asylum. by Daniel Geery on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:08:06 PM
Year after Year I Hope by Grant Lawrence on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:41:45 PM
good article lawrence. by hourglass on Friday, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:33:07 PM
You Have Captured the Problem by Grant Lawrence on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 12:51:39 AM
Not stupid, by Dave Kisor on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:22:08 AM
Why not a speech every morning? by R. A. Louis on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:25:01 AM
Take your kids out of school by Bryan Emmel on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:20:21 AM
Is public school where you learned to be so civil? by R. A. Louis on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:15:41 AM
A lot of the Stabs and Jabs.......... by Ernest on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:24:33 AM
An anatomy of silliness by Perry Logan on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:43:33 AM
Which Awareness and What Good Sense? by Jason Paz on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:27:48 AM
What Happened To The American Eagle? by Harvey Solomon on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:18:54 AM
What Happened To The American Eagle? by Harvey Solomon on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:18:54 AM
The "Hate Gap" is widening by Jay Farrington on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:48:01 PM
What, There are a Few of us that aren't Lobotomites? by Grant Lawrence on Sunday, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:25:06 AM
The right mental attitude for the US to take by David Chester on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:14:54 PM
Be of cheer.... by Debbie Scally on Saturday, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:14:55 PM
Consumer Zombies by William J. Kelleher, Ph.D. on Sunday, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:33:17 AM

 
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