Papantonio: No Outrage Will Kill Democracy

[GoLeft TV]

In 1970, 18-year old soldiers returned to their homes in America and were told that the government they had been fighting for in Asia was not willing to allow them to vote. Outrage was palpable and because of that, a constitutional amendment sailed past all of the hurdles necessary to cure that defect in the law. But it was outrage that was necessary to our population to make that adjustment - the same kind of outrage that drove the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Establishment typically becomes wildly uneasy when they sense outrage in our population. The establishment media ignores outrage – it scares them - in hopes that if they ignore it, it will simply go away. The Occupy Movement is the best example of that old guard establishment from both parties’ politicians that are always working desperately to have us focus our attention away from issues that, by all rights, should blow the top off of our outrage meters. So they master the art of distraction by leading us to believe that maybe steroid use in the national baseball league is far more important than catastrophic climate change. They tell us that what occurred in Benghazi is a far more serious threat to democracy than thieves on Wall Street hustling trillions of dollars away from the American economy without any prison sentences being handed out for their crimes.

Give the American public enough of those shiny things to focus on and those distractions will typically keep them from ever focusing enough on issues that should generate pure sustainable outrage.

Full text at Ring of Fire.

[joanbarnes]

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