With all this cult talk, please, please, PLEASE just remember one thing:

[Political Heretic]

Please, let me just take my campaign hat off for just one minute and just speak to my democratic family. Let me just have a little time-out.

It's clear that the corporate media has completely taken on this "cult" angle. I know, I know for many members here there is a genuine, personal feeling of distaste for the style of the Obama campaign, or its supporters or whatever. And I have nothing negative to say about that in this post. I get that.

But my democratic family members, we need to be alert. We need to start asking why is it that the corporate media has such a unified "talking theme" about this? If I was Jon Stewart and had the resources, I could easily cut together a 10 minute montage of pundit after pundit saying the exact same thing. Why?

It's too easy to call it an orchestrated campaign talking point or something - that is missing the bigger and more frightening picture.

What we are seeing right now, is how much the establishment hates it when the public starts paying attention. We're seeing the profound distaste and fear the establishment has when ordinary people begin to believe that the political process matters. That's the most terrifying idea the establishment can think of.

When I say "establishment" I'm not taking a swipe at the Clinton campaign. Like I said, I'm taking a time-out. I know that word gets thrown around sometimes by Clinton opponents - that's not what I'm referring to. I'm trying to point out that the way our system works in this country is that the people and institutions in power in this country have worked very, very hard to keep the public disenfranchised, dispassionate, disinterested and disengaged. The system functions best for the power elite when the people simply quietly consume, and don't believe there's any reason for them to care.

I don't care what you think of the specific candidate Obama. I'll go one step further and try to show you how reasonable I'm trying to be: I even think there is probably a little bit of "cult or personality" going on this year. Why? Because people who have been so disenfranchised from the political process and so without hope that it even matters are desperate for something or something fresh that can give them hope that their participation might make a difference. No, its not all about the best policies or pragmatic reasoning. I'm not afraid to say that. I'm sure part of it is an emotional stir......

.....but my fellow democrats, we ALL need to be really concerned and alert to this clear example of how much the establishment fears and detests it when the public stirs. We have record turnout everywhere. It is being called the "people's" election year. This scares the establishment to death. The people, when they are awakened are unpredictable, and they are the only force that is more powerful than the establishment. This is a terrifying idea to them.

So all of us, should have a little bit of concern when we see the media trying to paint the public as fringe, crazies, scary, or any other dismissive characteristic. I can absolutely promise you, they would be saying the same thing about any candidates campaign where the candidate stirred up so much of the public who usually sits silently on the sidelines. Maybe Obama isn't the right person for President. Maybe its all feeling and no substance. If Senator Clinton gets the nomination, I'll be voting for her. But I am really, really troubled by what I see the establishment trying to do, and that is beat down the populism that we are experiencing this year and trivalize and dismiss people's passion.

People who become excited, who believe that maybe they can make a difference DO tend to get a little crazy at times. That is the nature of disenfranchisment. When you're beat down for so long, once that hope is activated, it doesn't always come out in perfect ways. But I think its FAR MORE SCARY to watch the establishment media desperately try to BEAT BACK DOWN the public into its sleeping subservient place by insulting people and trivializing their enthusiasm, trying to marginalize it and ensure that it never becomes the mainstream norm in America.

That's what the establishment interests fear the most - and awakened, engaged public. Please, please keep this in mind, because I can promise you we are all going to continue hearing about "cults" and "craziness" and all kinds of other stuff for as long as the establishment feels threatened by an alert public.

Thank you..... I now return to my campaign schedule..... HILLARY SUCKS!!!! (I am truly just kidding... its ok to laugh!) :) :hi: