The Line Has Been Drawn

There is no middle ground anymore. We no longer have to think, we have the TV to tell us what to think and tell us we have to pick a side, now we are either for or against.

The founders had to find the middle ground. The federalists had to champion for the ratification of the Constitution with cogent arguments and an appeal to reason. One of their arguments for a federal government was the many states could help the one state better than one state could help themselves in times of disaster or an attack.

However those reasoned thoughts no longer apply today. Rather than be the united states with all citizens united under the umbrella of federal laws, we are a fragmented society. The line has been drawn by media politicians who have succumbed to polling and lack the courage of having any convictions other than to stay in power.

Since politics and elections have been corrupted by TV, hysteria has taken the place of reason. With the mass marketing of issues that divide, we end up electing TV personalities, or voting against a politician. We aren’t offered the chance to elect the best individual to represent us in the legislative bodies.

Subsequently the ruling class of the rich capitalists along with their puppet politicians control the ability to shape public opinion with the television.

Images are riveting and contain the power to drive change. Precisely why our federal government prevented pictures of states ravaged by Hurricane Ike in the 2008 hurricane season from being broadcast.

Must be the lesson they learned from Hurricane Katrina when the whole country saw it’s citizens abandoned by the federal government who did the exact opposite of what the federal government was founded to do.

Many people were saying the failures in Hurricane Katrina were due to the locals which is an example of the television’s power to shape public opinion, and not for the better either. They only shape it to the betterment of themselves and to retain power of the media’s favorite politician.