We Are Being Lied To. All the Time.

There's no other way to put it. Constantly, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty five days a year (three sixty six in leap years), we are lied to, jacked with, conned or otherwise manipulated by those who are supposed to be informing us.

Where do we get our news, information and/or opinion? Is it not from multi-millionaires speaking from multi-billion dollar corporate microphones? Are they representing our interests and reporting to us information that is to our advantage?

The right wing blowhards would have us believe that the media is dominated by a liberal worldview. As a proud liberal, I don't know what they are talking about. The country has always been predominantly conservative. It seems to me the highest point of liberalism was in the sixties. Since then, we have had an extreme move to what is commonly called the right. It began unabated with the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, even though old Tricky Dick would be considered a flaming liberal by today's standards.

On top of that, the news is brought to us primarily by corporate controlled media. The sole function of corporate anything, let alone corporate media, is to make money. It is not to bring us news to keep the citizens of this country informed. The business model of all media is based in selling advertising. That's where their money comes from. Everything they then do is designed to attract an audience to bring in the cash. That is the media Prime Directive. It is not to inform us, but to attract our attention long enough to sell us something. Do you really think any sort of thought would be tolerated that shook that money tree?

Thank God or our lucky stars we still have the internet, at least for a little while longer. It's a given there is much misinformation and disinformation, but if one learns how to sift through the bs there is good information out there that cannot be gotten any other way, at least as quickly. There is solid information out there but it is not getting channeled to the citizens of this so they can make informed decisions. The question then becomes how to get this information to the people.

It's my belief that local, small scale media is the solution. David didn't bring down Goliath fighting on Goliath's terms and turf.

Georgia Reps Stab Constituents in the Back

The Democratic Party in south Georgia has been proud for years to have its entire delegation Democratic. Immediately following their reelection in November as Democrats, the entire delegation jumped ship to the Republican Party: Senator Tim Golden, and Representatives Amy Carter and Ellis Black.

Never in my life have I seen such a thing. Even though they issued their own statements, they almost sounded identical. I see Amy has been rewarded with being some kind of a gofer girl for the new governor. They all proclaim how they can better serve their constituents. When I heard of Tim Golden's defection, my immediate thought was, well, his business is that of financial advisor, he knows where his bread is buttered, he knows who his real constituents are.

I'm a constituent. I'm a hard-working, elderly fellow, that has been waiting ten years for things to change for the better while two of them have been in office. It hasn't and now I know why. These people have been conservatives all along, and as shown by their defections, DINOs, Democrats In Name Only. They were, in reality, Republicans all along.

I campaigned for these people. I made calls and encouraged people and friends to vote for them, believing they represented our interests and values. The Republican Party does not represent my values or that of most people I know. This constituent feels quite stabbed in the back by this.