By Mark Karlin
For nearly 10 years, BuzzFlash has focused on how Americans generally support progressive policies if asked about them individually, but are swayed against them by right wing media propaganda campaigns.
This has been the lesson since Nixon, and it has become more virulent over the years.
Now we are faced with a coordinated incendiary attack on President Barack Obama as an individual and beneficial public policies such as healthcare reform and climate control the likes of which are terrifying to a democracy.
What is occurring is the same model: corporations who control the mainstream media and control the majority of elected officials on Capitol Hill use facistic "coded" misinformation to rally a thunderously loud confused base to bollix up any legislation that would diminish their profits or power to control what happens in D.C.
The marriage of big corporations and government is fascism, and propaganda is what sanctifies the marriage and keeps it from ending up in a divorce.
Now, the White House's passivity to the imminent danger of a toxic pathology out of control has resulted in media attention once again distracting us from the issue at hand -- healthcare --by covering a right wing, GOP, Corporate PR Firm "boycott" of a speech by President Obama encouraging students to study hard and take education seriously.
Of course, Reagan and Bush spoke to students, but the "white is right" crowd had no objections then.
The White House and President Obama are to be faulted for thinking, once again, of some bipartisan heaven that can be attained on earth when you are struggling against the type of destructive and potentially violent movement that has in the recent past led to fascistic governments of "purity." (Look at Chile and Argentina during the Reagan years, or Central America at the time.)
President Obama has to stop dreaming of being voted the "most liked" politician in D.C. That aspiration was rendered impossible when he was elected, because the corporations, the GOP, and the white right wing racists were going to go after him with a machete of hate whatever he did.
If President Obama doesn't becomes less Pollyanna and more Richard the Lionheart soon, the terrorism we will face will not be from Afghanistan but from within.
It could happen at any moment, an army of Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann molded Timothy McVeighs.
The nation is afflicted with a pathological cancer that has moved into a real Red Alert for domestic and personal danger.
President Obama needs to put on his armour suit and grab Excalibur, because the right is once again defining the debate and shifting it toward igniting a powder keg.
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