OK this is getting bizarre. This mother breaks into tears when she thinks of the President of the United States speaking to her children in school. We are less than two days away from Obama’s brain-washing, soul-crushing, communist-loving subliminal-laced speech to our children. By Wednesday, our schools will be little more than communes with kids calling for redistribution of wealth and reeducation of parents.
There was a time when the lunch lady was the scariest thing at school.
I am honored to speak to the Kent Gardens Elementary School on Constitution Day and I have been looking for tips on the brainwashing techniques. (I would like my car washed everyday by zombie elementary students). I assume that the subliminal messages work something like this: “Hello children, I am the President of the United States (undervoice: “vote Democratic”). I want to speak with you about education (undervoice: “Republicans shot Bambi”) . . .”
Even some Chicago schools are refusing to air the speech. While some schools have banned the speech on the ground that they would not be able to read it, the White House always promised to release it on Monday — the day before. The speech was actually released on Sunday and it proved every bit as indoctrinating as feared. Among other things, Obama asks the children to wash their hands. What totalitarian hogwash. Then there is this frightening bit:
Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.
Everyone knows that “opportunity” is doublespeak for enslaving your parents and sacrificing them to gay socialist feminist union overlords. What is even more frightening is that Obama has already brainwashed Laura Bush, who has come out in favor of the subliminally laden speech, here.
In one Fox story, a parent explains how a president speaking to school kids is “very socialistic.” What they do not realize is that there is little to worry about. To be sent to a re-education camp, you first have to be educated. According to recent data, the schools in many of the states opposing the President’s speech have already protected against that danger.
However, as this clip shows, even our classic movies were used to shape us unconsciously through subliminal messages:
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FlowerChild,
The idea of the whole community working and striving together for a commone goal is an inspirational goal, but as has been said already, when one portion or faction of that society will not work with the other, what can the other side do? They can just give up or they can give in or better yet, they can work for the common good as they see it. That is what the Democrats should do since the Republicans are not bargaining in good faith.
Mespo:
“…must we, as in your case, forsake every principle we have out of respect for some misguided appeal for societal harmony?”
I think you’re missing Jill’s larger point: politics as we know it, the politics of Right & Left, Democrat & Republican is largely a shell game. It aims at distracting the citizenry with phony controversies & preys upon fear & prejudice to obscure the the reality of our current situation.
Democrat & Republican are nothing more than corporate brands, marginally differentiated –at most– from each other. They fill up the political space & by so doing prevent people from seeing through the illusion of politics as usual & from making common cause against it.
As I read Jill’s remarks, only a truly communitarian movement can break us out of this trap. This isn’t a call for group hugs. A real community must work out differences of principle & interest among it’s members –rather than strike deals between factions of a ruling elite.
Jill:
You are fast becoming one of the tin foil hat crowd. Every public message is scrutinized by the author for its impact on the audience. From detergent commercials to declarations of war, this has always been the rule. Churchill even discussed his speeches with his personal physician, Lord Moran, reading him whole passages for his consideration. An elite focus group indeed. JT reviews his comments as we all know, and I am sure his editorial pieces are likewise written for “impact.” That is the nature of writing and oratory–it is meant to “manipulate” if you must use that word. So please, spare us the Chicken Little approach to ever government activity undertaken. Most of us know when we are being manipulated. We are,after all, the world’s largest consumer society of everything from detergent to news. Give us some credit–and our kids some too.
Wayne:
“Mespo: so you think educating children is the same as asking ladies out? That’s pretty damn kinky of you and highly illegal in most places.
And know, I don’t think Obama is such a life-affirming inspirational figure (maybe we just have to agree to disagree on that one) that the Madison diocese should throw its education mission out the window.
In full disclosure: I am NOT one of the countless African American students attending Catholic school in MADISON WISCONSIN. So there’s that.”
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It seems you are still hopelessly lost.
By the way, one uses illustrations to explain to those who can’t fathom abstract ideas, and n, I did not equate educating children with asking someone out. Twisting words won’t help your measly debating skills.
When your ready to address my point that the President of the United States is more inspirational than some crinkled up clergy to white as well as African-American students we’ll talk. And, by the way, I was absolutely certain that were never a student of any kind whatsoever.
Jill,
With all due respect, the Right has refused to work with the left consistently and in Congress the Republicans are purposely refusing to work with the Democrats and they have stated in writing that their intention is for Obama to fail on everything and anything. How can you work with people who have that intention? The answer is that you can’t and the only way is to work without them.
mespo and jericho.
Before you name call I think you both need to look into media criticism. You both seem unaware of the level of manipulation that our political class engages in. You both seem unaware that every word, ever single aspect of the speech you hear from Obama has been thoroughly focus grouped, run by people under an fMRI, vetted to create exactly the feelings desired by the speaker. You don’t need to believe me, you can research this for yourself. I hope you both will do so. You can’t break out of manipulation by thinking: 1. there’s no manipulation going on and/or 2. even if it’s going on it doesn’t effect people, especially people like me. Do the research, then see if you still want to call me such bad names!
rafflaw,
The left wing can work with the right wing because we must. Everyone on the right is not evil, insane, racist and stupid. Everyone on the left is not peaceful, intelligent, cult resistant and without character flaws.
We are in a situation where our only chance of making it through the economic apocolypse is to turn towards our neighbors, not away from them. Of course there are people we cannot work with. For example, I would say Obama has proven that he should not be trusted by people who want and end to the wars/empire building, torture, who are for civil liberties and want a just economic system. There are people on both the left and the right I do not trust because they are following their leaders instead of thinking for themselves. But there are still ways to reach out to people we disagree with on philosophical issues. It will be up to us to build community with anyone who wants to do so. We are facing really bad times. We must work together to provide the basics for each other–by basics I mean food, housing, medical care, clothing and friendship. This president and most of this congress care nothing about the basica welfare of our citizens. We should not look to them to care, they don’t. We need to turn to each other and say I will help you out and I need your help. This is a profoundly subversive act in a society whose highest values are closer to those of a corporation than of an actual human community.
You cannot write off all right leaning people, nor blindly believe in all left wingers. The left has shown a current and historical ability to be just as authoritarian as the right. Look for people who aren’t authoritarian or at least those who are practical and work with them.
Every president has been using phony backdrops and well honed psy-ops when they speak to the public. They use these things because they work. Until adults and children understand the techniques being used against us, why are we required to submit? I try not to watch or listen to any political speeches until I have read them without all the outer props designed to evoke specific reactions from me. Even the words are carefully crafted to evoke certain emotions. This was true of Bush. It is true of Obama. I did know parents who didn’t want their kids hearing GWB. Those parents were villified as “unpatriotic”. The left wing should counter the racism and stupid ideas, but after that, it is a parent’s choice to keep their children out of school that day.
Yes there is terrible racism against Obama which is motivating many of the people who don’t want their kids to hear him speak. That should never be excused or denied. But you can’t deny the manipulation the political class is subjecting our populace to. Both are dangerous. Both are turning citizen against citizen. That will be are biggest mistake. If we begin to turn away from other citizens we will all lose. Our only hope is to reject both the racism and the manipulation of our ruling elites and reach out to others at the most fundamental level–offering help, seeking help, trying to reform a community.
Carlyle: I completely agree. After eight years of abstinence-only education are we really going to pretend that children AREN’T being brainwashed at school?
But keeping kids home for a single day isn’t going to solve anything, because they will be inundated with propaganda and indoctrination every other day. The only viable solution is for parents to teach their children to be skeptics and to have fine-tuned bullshit detectors.
Mespo: so you think educating children is the same as asking ladies out? That’s pretty damn kinky of you and highly illegal in most places.
And know, I don’t think Obama is such a life-affirming inspirational figure (maybe we just have to agree to disagree on that one) that the Madison diocese should throw its education mission out the window.
In full disclosure: I am NOT one of the countless African American students attending Catholic school in MADISON WISCONSIN. So there’s that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_wisconsin#Demographics
I sure hope stupid isn’t contagious with all these kids being kept at home by these “parents”.
It amuses me that so many parents are worried about Obama brainwashing their children. I wonder if they let their children watch TV. I wonder if they know that US TV stations must give a certain amount of airtime to advertisements against illegal drugs but are allowed to reduce the time given to advertisements if anti drug messages are included in program content. If this is not brainwashing, what is?
I know I have seen at least one movie about a hit man with a heart of gold, but I have never seen one about a drug trafficker with a heart of gold.
John Puma.
I think the amount that Democrat service to the kleptarchy is less than that by the Republicans is much smaller than you think.
When out of power the Democrats pretend to be concerned about workers, the poor and the middle class but it is a pretense whose only purpose is to prevent the advent of other parties or politicians who truly represent the non-rich.
Rafflaw.
I am not an an American and I pity you poor folks who are. The US has regressed to the 18th century and a klepocratic elite holds complete power. The only question about any US politician is whether he is a paid agent of the kleptarchy or a full member. I incline to the view that most of them including Barak Obama are full members and are doing what they do because they perceive it is in their interests. I think there is a morality involved but it is one where maintaining the correct privilege hierarchy is the moral purpose.
American voters other than the seriously rich have long been deluded that the Democratic party is a true alternative to the Republicans, it is not. It is as Gore Vidal said, there is one party with two right wings called Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats are the backup party for when the Republicans lose, but their appeal to ordinary Americans is bogus.
To Carlyle Moulton:
I would put it this way:
The party currently in power “serves the kleptocratic ruling elite” slightly less well than the party out of power whose ONLY reason for existence is to serve “the kleptocratic ruling elite.”
Rafflaw.
“The Right has been taken over by religious wingnuts who do not live the tenets of their religion”.
Actually you are confusing Christians with followers of Joshua Ben Joseph of Nazareth (aka Jesus). This person was very wicked, a pinko lefty who consorted with all the wrong people he thought poor people and outsiders should have rights. The authorities of the day quite rightly nailed him to a piece of wood. In death almighty God punished him further by converting him into Jesus Kerist, a figure of impeccable respectability who stand for everything opposite to what Joshua Ben Joseph preached. It is true that there are some followers of Joshua Ben Joseph who mistakenly call themselves Christians, but as the vast majority who claim the term Christian are more like George W Bush it is the misogynist fetus fetishists of the insane right that are the true owners of the term.
Carlyle:
The problem with our nation is that greed and love of money and power have robbed our politicians of any moral courage they otherwise would have. The citizenry, seeing the corruption so evident, have become largely apathetic, worrying about their own quest for money and power. It’s a general type of capitalistic deterioration compounded by a pervasive stupidness that seems air borne. We can turn it around, but a lot of people are going to have to get a lot smarter and a lot more courageous in a hurry. We run this gamut about every 30 years or so (1890’s, 1920’s, 1950’s. 1990’s) and then wake from our lethargy to right the ship just before the rocks appear. Some call it crisis management; I call it fear focusing our attention.
“Fear is the mother of morality”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
JT, I have to ask you to stop this blog. You’re making me lose all hope in mankind here. There’s just no way I can keep my spirits up with daily items like these, pointing out the cheer madness in some people’s heads… It is incomprehensible so why even post it. Life is useless enough without this nonsense damnit.
There’s just not enough money in the world to buy these conservatives straight…
As for Jill: ‘I take this very seriously because this govt. is destroying the poor and the middle class. We should fight this govt., not each other.’
– It’s a scary time indeed, with people like you walking free outside of mental institutions… Go buy a brain and a book, and whatever you do, please do NOT procreate.
It seems to me your nation has two problems:-
1/ The party now in power is only slightly less right wing than that previously in power, it just lacks the overt misogyny and fetus-fetishism.
2/ The party that is out of power still thinks the right wing Democrats are too left wing and is determined to prevent them doing anything effective, even if it still serves the kleptocratic ruling elite.
Wayne:
It seems lost on you that the encouragement of one who has achieved great things and overcome the same incredible hardships also borne by some of these children will have a greater impact, than the same message coming from someone just mouthing the words or with whom you these kids can barely relate.
You always need more information when you don’t want to do something. It gives you a plausible reason to avoid it later. Remember the last beautiful woman that asked you out, did you ask for her IQ or bank statement? Now think about the last plain girl. I bet you needed references.
“Reagan, Daddy Bush and other Presidents have talked to school children. Why wasn’t there a tremor through the land then?”
There WAS. Except the epicenter of the tremor was Dick Gephardt.
D’Oh!