Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game Over

[BearFlagDemocrat]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson27jul27,0,1432940.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

I'm writing to commend you for calling for a $90-million study on the effects of video games on children, and in particular the courageous stand you have taken in recent weeks against the notorious "Grand Theft Auto" series.

I'd like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has captured the attention of millions of kids — a game that instills aggressive thoughts in the minds of its players, some of whom have gone on to commit real-world acts of violence and sexual assault after playing.

I'm talking, of course, about high school football.

[aden_nak]

1. Way to piss of the "youth vote" Hillary.

[A Simple Game]

2. And there's that new war simulation game,

Oh, wait that one's not a simulation, is it!

[endarkenment]

3. and

is directly associated with illegal drug use

[TheFarseer]

4. She's out of her mind

if she thinks this will get her any votes. People that like this aren't going to vote for her in a million years anyway. It only makes younger voters think twice about voting for her. I sometimes wonder if Al Gore didn't lose in part because his wife's goofy anti-music stance turned off some democrats.

[endarkenment]

5. tipper gore syndrom

what is infuriating to me is that the religous reich gets away with their hideous pandering, and somehow it doesn't really bother the electorate, but Democrats get it in their heads that they ought to do some pandering too and it comes off as smarmy nanny state do-gooder bullshit. We end up looking like we want to take toys and candy away from kids while they are metaphorically raping terri schiavo and getting away with it.

[PATRICK]

6. Outdated pandering too

Besides the fact this will earn no support and further disaffect whole sectors who groan through this scam, besides the fact that there is no parallel clarity and outspoken positions on real death "games" or anything else dangerous adults do there is the laughable effect on the video game industry itself.

Punching non-contributing millionaires in new tech industries until they start paying protection money. Attacking an old game that already made its millions and is on the downslide is hardly courageous. Real offensive games up and coming and the ugly turn of some companies to tout jingoistic war gory to placate moralistic hawks make for a broader horizon than DC tunnel vision can scan. What effect do they want on this form of entertainment(also a hotbed of youthful chat on all subjects including politicians goring their ox). You probably have more political discussions in sheer volume on games like Everquest and related gaming sites than at all other purely political blogs combined. Does Hillary want this all cleaned up into a version of the Air Force Academy? This is the type of thankless dirty work the GOP would love to assign the waning Dems.

And then profit from it with under the table contributions to the GOP and compromise on games GOP style with whatever makes a real buck or whatever they can force people to buy. They know who holds the game controllers- who controls their profits, taxes and law enforcement.

The twist is that what Hillary wants is irrelevant in the GOP world except as scapegoating. Only it ill not end with the gamers being scapegoated but Hillary herself as she- not the moralistic but powerful GOP- is singled out as the object of opposition by game makers and players. What started out maybe as mild honesty or hypocrisy will be repaid in turn since she is the one the makers and shakers of real policy will turn this back on.

These days the "disciplining" that seemed to win centrists or conservatives to the DLC fold(gangsta rap, Jesse Jackson, etc.) and was hailed by the puzzled GOP media is handily in a total backfire/blowback mode that is now old news since Tipper Gore. It only hurts and it is moot to the censorship war run by the GOP. Hillary is only part of her own triangulated targeting by the GOP, gun pointed firmly to head- a form of politics that should be censored before anyone will swallow future moralistic preaching to the GOP choir.