To Any Obama Admin People, Pundits, or Others Who Read DU,

[snot]

I'd just like it be known that I'm among the voting liberals who feels extreme grief and anger that conservatives have been allowed to take control of the U.S. through Dem fecklessness, or whatever the heck it is, but who voted Dem nonetheless and who is refraining from posting much about my feelings bec. I don't want to just radiate bad vibes.

But I fear this country is just about lost unless we start making real progress on the following issues:

1. Media integrity (the destruction of restrictions on consolidated ownership and the Fairness Doctrine). It's NOT that Dems can't message; it's that they've lost control of their own message, because it's either distorted or not reported by the media. Reality is now almost wholly overshadowed by emotional manipulation and spectacle created by a media largely controlled by the right.

Remember this from 2004 re- the term, "Reality-Based Community" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_based_community ): "The source of the term is . . . New York Times Magazine article . . . quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove): The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. . . . That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued . . . ."

2. Public education (destruction begun long ago and now continuing under Obama appointee Arne Duncan's enthusiastic leadership). It's NOT that Americans are stupid; but they're miseducated and brainwashed.

Remember this: "A modern economic system demands mass production of students who are not educated and have been rendered incapable of thinking."– U.N.E.F. Strasbourg, On the Poverty of Student Life (1966). (http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/4 )

3. Election integrity (both electronic voting and campaign finance, including corporate money). We MUST do something about Citizens United, FAST.

And remember this: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm . And in the 2010 midterms, there's just one state – California – in which easily-hacked electronic voting machines have been pretty much eliminated; and in that state, EVERY statewide elective office went to Dems.

[jkshaw]

1. Yes.

[Meatball]

2. Add gerrymandering to that and i think you've just about covered it all

nt

[snot]

3. Thank you, and agreed!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. Sounds awesome

Now all we need is a legislature to write the laws and...

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...nevermind.

*sighs*