All Hail the Mighty Oz, Great and Terrible!

[Mythsaje]

Oh, please. Reagan's handlers crafted a message that appealed to the least common denominator. It was the political equivilant of the Catholic Church selling dispensation. "Being a greedy bastard isn't a bad thing--it's a good thing. Take what you want. Don't pay any attention to the people below you who could use what you'd ordinarily leave behind--they don't matter."

I hate that we're now in the position of being told that our dislike of Reagan makes us unable to see the truth behind how he rallied America behind him. Duh. He did it by LYING, by creating a false image that all too many Americans bought into, another image bought and paid for by the corporatist motherfuckers who've been running Bushco for the past 7 years.

Behind the curtain? The same people who've led us into this economic situation we're approaching now. The same people who thought the way to get us out of the duldrums of 9/11 was to "spend, spend, spend." Anything for a buck, right?

There wasn't anything "visionary" about this shit. It's the same political illusion they've been trying to sell us since. With varying degrees of success. The fact is the yuppies bought into it in the eighties--the whole Alex P. Keaton crowd, who thought their life's work was to become as rich as possible, never mind that becoming rich should never be a goal in itself...morally speaking.

It was a veritable feast of greed, a smorgasboard of conspicuous consumption writ large upon the screen of the American self-image. Hell, half the reason I was such a slacker in my early years was because they tried to force-feed me this shit and I wasn't swallowing.

It was a LIE. An illusion. And it was sold to the American people, who bought it hook, line, and sinker.

There's nothing worth cheering about overt manipulation. Nothing at all.


edited to fix a typo in the title

[Horse with no Name]

1. Amen. Glad to K&R. n/t

[Demeter]

2. Exactly So! Only This Time, Nobody's Buying the Lies

Because nobody can afford them. Not even Republicans!

[melody]

3. Well said. Reagan was phase one of their attack against the US n/t

[Angela Shelley]

4. This began much earlier.

Have you seen the book from Wallace D. Wattles, "The science of getting rich"?

Maybe you have seen the book called "The Secret", which was based on the Wattles book?

[melody]

5. Yes, I know, the plan goes back to Prescott Bush, but there was a phased economic takeover

Reagan started it. It has been ongoing since the civil war, in one way or another.

I've never read anything by Wattles or heard of either book. What are their contentions?

[Angela Shelley]

6. Just google "Wallace d. Wattles" and you´ll find out

everything you want to know about him.

The underlying point is: "If you can conceive and believe, you will achieve".

IMO, the whole idea about getting anything you want, at all costs, is the root of all of the problems on this planet.

[melody]

7. I think it's more diverse than that. Most people I know with that perspective are spiritually based

Sociopaths have their own gnosis -- they don't need to borrow someone else's. That's who these people are
-- rich, arrogant sociopaths who believe they have been designed by fate to rule.

[TahitiNut]

12. Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Nasir Saddiki, Robert Tilton, T.D. Jakes, Paul Crouch, Joel Osteen ...

... Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer, Jesse Duplantis, Juanita Bynum, Kong Hee, Eddie Long, Brian Houston, Paula White and Peter Popoff, Phil Pringle, Pat Robertson, and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker ... and a legion of lesser thumpers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

[we can do it]

8. You Got That Right

[Psyop Samurai]

9. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen...

...despite the six billion other posts on this topic, is all that needs to be said.

:think:

[smokey nj]

10. Well said!!!

[bobbolink]

11. Speaking of lies, since Barack thinks Raygun was a fine leader, I guess he also buys the Welfare

Cadillac crap.

Definitely won't vote for him, if he's the nominee.

I've had enough with "Dems" who turn on poor people, including Clinton!

:mad:

[OneGrassRoot]

13. K&R....

Honestly, I am baffled by the types of defenses being posted about the Reagan thing.

I cannot believe people with liberal values can defend it in the way some of the blatantly rude, snarky supposed Obama posters have been doing. I'm thinking - hoping - a lot of them are trolls.

If they aren't, we are in deeper shit than I realized.

[Mythsaje]

14. I reached a decision today.

Every time they bend reality to excuse this crap, I put them on ignore. My ignore list has grown by about 75% today alone.

[BigBearJohn]

15. Wow. Wished I'd said that. Succinct and spot-on!. K/R!

Thanks for writing this.
:toast: