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It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Monday, March 26, 2012


      A “moderate” is just someone who mostly agrees with your political beliefs
If you’re a Democrat, a Republican who shares your beliefs is a “moderate”; if you’re a Republican, a Democrat who shares your beliefs is a “moderate.” 

Nobody is “extreme” except the other guy with whom you most disagree; then “far left” liberal and “right-wing” conservative become terms of contempt.

There is bias in all media – some to the left and some to the right – which is why conservatives howl at anyone who describes The New York Times as a “middle-of-the-road” newspaper and others howl when Fox News presents itself as “fair and balanced.” 

In most cases, the media know their audience demographics well, what their audiences want, and they deliver it, because viewers and readers bring ratings and circulation, which mean ad revenue, the manna that sustains their enterprise. 

So that’s how you can see a Republican that other Republicans despise for not following the party’s orthodoxy called a “moderate” by the NYT, MSNBC, CNN and others.  And a Democrat other Democrats despise for not following their party’s orthodoxy called a “moderate” by The Wall Street Journal and Fox News.

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