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"No great advance has ever been made in science,
politics, or religion, without controversy."
Lyman Beecher
1910
Banker's Magazine jubilantly declares:
"Legislative and
executive powers are compelled to listen to the demands of
organized corporate
interests.
They are not entirely controlled due to the fact that
corporate organization has not yet reached
perfection."
"The politics that has
dominated Washington since the election of George Walker Bush is a corrupt
brand of right-wing
corporatism.
People who reside in the highest 1% of the income
spectrum or have K Street
lobbyists at their command have done very well." - Jonathan
Chait
"The language of political reporting is filled with
accounts of staging and
backdrops, camera angles and
scripts, sound bites and spin control, photo opportunities and corporate media
gurus." - Kiku Adatto
"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and
remain honest."
Ambrose Bierce politics are defined
as;
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crafty; cunning
of or
pertaining to polity, or
civil government
using or marked by prudence,
expedience, and
artful
shrewdness
smoothly agreeable
and courteous with a degree of sophistication
"The people who control the condition in which we
live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years." - BF
Skinner
"The
political merchandisers
appeal only to the weaknesses of voters,
never to their potential strength.
They make no attempt to
educate the masses into becoming fit for self-government; they are
content merely to manipulate and
exploit them.
For this purpose all the
resources of psychology and the social sciences are mobilized and set to
work.
Carefully
selected samples of the electorate are given "interviews in
depth."
These interviews in depth reveal the
subconscious fears and wishes
most prevalent in a given society at the time of an election.
Images aimed at allaying or, if necessary,
enhancing fears, at
satisfying wishes,
at least symbolically, are then chosen by
experts, tried out on
readers and
audiences, changed or
improved in the light of the information obtained.
After which
the political campaign is ready
for the mass communicators.
All that is now needed is
money and a candidate
who can be coached to look "sincere."
Under the new dispensation,
political principles and
plans for specific action have come to
lose most of their importance.
The personality of the candidate
and the way he is projected by the advertising experts are the things that
really matter." - Aldous
Huxley
 
"Like it or not ,
dirty tricks have always been
part of campaigns, and for one simple reason - because they work.
They're street fights in which
you do anything and everything
you can to win.
Most voters are led by the nose to the voting booth
still convinced their ballot is cast of
free will."
- Allen Raymond, political campaign manager 02/08
"Most people prefer to believe
that their leaders are just and fair,
even in the face of
evidence to the contrary, because
once a citizen acknowledges that the
government under which he lives is lying and corrupt,
the citizen has to choose
what he or she will do about it.
To take action in the face of
corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones.
To
choose to do nothing is to surrender self-image of standing
for principles.
Most
people do not have the courage to face that choice.
Hence, most
propaganda is not designed to fool the
critical thinker but only to
give moral cowards an excuse not to think at
all." - Michael Rivero
"We live
in a culture characterized by what Benjamin DeMott called "junk
politics."
Junk politics does not demand justice or the reparation of
rights.
It always personalizes issues rather than clarifying them.
It eschews real debate for manufactured scandals,
celebrity gossip and
spectacles.
It trumpets
eternal optimism,
endlessly praises our moral strength and
character, and communicates in a feel-your-pain
language.
The result of junk politics is that nothing changes,
"meaning zero interruption in the
processes and practices that strengthen existing,
interlocking systems of socioeconomic
advantage." - Chris Hedges
"The human race divides politically into those
who want
people to be
controlled and those who have no such desire."
Robert Heinlein
science and
politics
"The only thing I can figure is that people are
numb to the unabashed lies and
distortions out of
the nation's capital.
We're
living in a time, after all, in which a government report on
global warming was toned down by a
White House "science advisor" who then quit to go to work for
ExxonMobil." - Steve Lopez
"The subordination of science to politics on everything from
global warming to
reproductive health has become
a hallmark of the George Walker
Bush.
It is particularly unfortunate to see the politicization of
the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Once considered the exemplar of true
scientific and independent public health recommendations, the collateral damage
of political meddling at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention is now manifest in even the
journalistic approach framing the
debate over mercury in childhood vaccines.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention position on the issue, and its alliance with the American
Academy of Pediatrics, are described in the same vein as are "financial
ties" that the vaccine manufacturers might have with the academy.
It is
as if the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is just another special interest that takes
sides on controversial issues, rather than being a neutral scientific entity
charged with performing the hard work of developing the consensus necessary to
preserve and promote the health of the public.
One can only wonder what
the consequences will be of this loss of an independent voice should a major
public health catastrophe occur." - Kevin Patrick, professor of Family and
Preventive Medicine University of California San Diego, editor-in-chief of
the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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