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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
"You cannot adopt politics as a profession and
remain honest."
Ambrose Bierce
"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
"The argument that the two parties should
represent opposed ideals
and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the
other of the Left,
is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and
academic thinkers."
Carroll Quigley politics are
defined as;
policy
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 - 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.
October 16, 1972 Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. Majority
leader of the House of Representatives and Congressman Nick Begich of Alaska
die in a airplane crash weeks before national elections.
Oct. 16, 2000 Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan dies in
a private plane crash just three weeks before the 2000 elections.
October 24, 2002 Two weeks before the 2002 elections
Democratic Senate candidate Paul Wellstone is killed in a plane crash. His wife
dies with him.
The balance in the Senate
for years 2002 to 2004 was 51 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and one independent.
If both Wellstone and Carnahan had not been killed, and Wellstone had
gone on as projected to win his race, the balance would have been 50 Democrats,
49 Republicans, and one independent.
This would have significantly
changed what happened in Congress and in the US, where the presidency and both
houses of Congress were Republican controlled over those two
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