Rescuing Simple Minds in Difficult Times

Patricia Ernest, aka Pissed Off Patricia  opednews.com

Color codes to represent how fearful we should be, a decks of cards with the bad guys photos on them and  "a road map" to peace, are such simplistic symbols of such difficult events, but they were devised to appeal to simply minds.  Perhaps that's why, about half the US, think that bush is doing a "good  job" running the country.  There is no challenge to these people to seek or understand facts, they just play the game along with the administration.  The administration tells them when to move, what to think and what to feel and they simply obey orders because it's easier than actually thinking for themselves.  It's easier than taking responsibility for their own thoughts and actions.  Just obey and move on.  If the president says it's the truth, accept unquestionably, that he is right.  These simple thinkers like bush because he and his administration make it easy for them to understand world events by giving them the equivalent of secret decoder rings and tokens to represent success or failure.  Keep it simple (for the) stupid.

  

The date of the  attacks of September 11, 2001, is equally simple and easy to remember as it coincides with our 911 phone number to call for help.  Were the hijackers who flew those airplanes that day thinking about how simple and easy it would be for us to remember that date?  The day bush proclaimed the war complete was May 1, 2003, or May Day.  Was bush thinking about how simple and easy it would be for us to remember that date?  These are simple and easy dates to remember for those who find facts just to difficult to recall.  This is effortless historical recollection.

 

Notice that "911" is a call for help on land and "May Day" is a call for help at sea.  Please also notice that bush's ratings were down just prior to September 11, 2001,  and he needed some "help" to boost them up.  He received that boost due to the horrific events on our land that day.   Please also notice that bush's ratings were slumping before May 1, 2003, and he needed to boost them up again.   With his "mission accomplished" speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, he received "help" at sea. 

 

Is there a pattern of plans here or do we just have an amazing coincidence of clues?  When this ship of state is in raging rough waters does it simply call upon a calamitous event to boost  it's ratings and steady it's course?   Does this ship of state use tragedy as a life preserver?   Is it possible that when it looks as though bush's ambitions are sailing too far a-sea from current public opinion, he simply flashes a distress signal of death and 50% of the public will row blindly along,  following in his wake?  Is it even conceivable that the bush administration has led this country on a foggy course of deception and false alarms, even when it meant we were heading  into dangerous waters of peril?  When this administration sets it's course, you either follow obediently or you're set adrift.  When bush needs help for his cause, watch for blood in the water.  It's just that simple.

 

It has been said so many times that to get to the answers, you should "connect the dots".  As everyone knows, the dots must first  be numbered and the numbers must be followed in order to create a recognizable picture.  Seems to me that our dots are numbered and even the simplest mind should be able to connect them. 

   

Such easy dates to remember, such simplistic symbols, that's what 50% of Americans want and that's simply what they continue to receive from the bush administration.  Keeping with this simplistic approach to communication, perhaps it is now time for us to issue our own "SOS".   Save Our Souls from this Same Old Shit!  This country is in trouble and it needs to be rescued before we sink deeper into the depths of  this administration's sea of lies and deception.   It's just that simple.

Patricia Ernest, aka Pissed Off Patricia  nesters@bellsouth.net I live in the wonderful state of Florida. I am a mom to Murphy (my precious pup) and Fred (my occasionally precious cat). I share my life, my laughter, my world and all of my love with my husband and have for 16 years. I would describe myself as a very sentimental and sensitive person who is forever willing to share my point of view whether or not it has been requested of me.  This article is copyright by Patricia Ernest,  originally published by opednews.com Permission is granted to forward this or to place it on a website as long as the article is included intact, including this statement.