"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

[deminks]

Remember this quote?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove<1>):

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. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."<2>

(end snip)

I think it is still relevant. We study the likes of Christine O'Donnell trying to find relevance, we agonize about the women's vote or the latino vote, or the Rasmussen poll and KKKarl has moved on to another propaganda game. That is what Fox is all about. That is why the reich needs Fox. Chimpy once talked about catapulting the propaganda. He did not think up that phrase on his own.

This is why reality based dissent must be crushed, why reality based journalists must be silenced, why reality based voters must be suppressed.

Goebbels knew:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

[jaxx]

1. PNAC language.

It's what they built dubya on and how they did their empire bit. Today they call themselves the FDD, but they're still PNACs.

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/

[CJCRANE]

2. The RW lives by the maxim that "perception is reality"

so they put all their effort into changing the public perception using PR stunts and endless repetition of political mantras

(which becomes a form of hypnosis and self-hypnosis along the lines of affirmations, magical thinking and NLP).