tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post7062194156208635393..comments2024-03-28T10:07:24.955-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Out Of The Back EndOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-716600205125237732018-04-10T15:49:42.387-04:002018-04-10T15:49:42.387-04:00Angry and fearful people don't think clearly, ...Angry and fearful people don't think clearly, Toby. Obviously, a person who thought clearly would call this insanity.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-71423771182938946052018-04-10T14:54:59.221-04:002018-04-10T14:54:59.221-04:00This has been engineered. It is difficult to mani...This has been engineered. It is difficult to manipulate happy, contented people. It is easy to manipulate angry, fearful people. We have had two generations of angry talk radio hosts, a steady diet of explosive cop shows and news media telling fibs, anything to make us angry and fearful.Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-87348669325538692362018-04-10T13:46:43.462-04:002018-04-10T13:46:43.462-04:00It would seem, Mound, that the voting public is si...It would seem, Mound, that the voting public is simply stupider than they were two generations ago. As Neil Postman wrote back in the 1980's, they are "entertaining themselves to death" -- oblivious to what is going on all around them.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-83654418148764063892018-04-10T12:48:24.304-04:002018-04-10T12:48:24.304-04:00What is the foundational problem? Can it be laid a...<br />What is the foundational problem? Can it be laid at the feet of the parties and their legislators or does some of the blame belong to an electorate that has become their marks? This has been going on for decades and yet the voting public, or a significant segment of it, has accepted every straw man raised, every whipping boy put in their path. Again and again and again they have been willing dupes ready to vote directly contrary to their own and their countrymen's best interests. Civic consciousness has not been this low, certainly not in my lifetime. Trump's "birther" campaign against Obama demonstrated the appetite of the masses for conspiracy theories. In this semi-addled state it's child's play to strip them of their political power, individual and collective and that is a net sum game, the power lost by the masses migrating to another, narrower interest.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com