tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32032570.post2801689112948496662..comments2008-03-16T12:54:52.704-05:00Mookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04796691428737135749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32032570.post-40151344418877247872007-10-14T13:50:00.000-05:002007-10-14T13:50:00.000-05:00I liked that spoof ad. <BR/><BR/><I>If you've ever seen a person zombie-like in front the TV, flashes of light flickering off their glazed eyes, reduced through years of careful conditioning to be a emotionally-driven consumer robot, you will experience the horror...</I><BR/><BR/>This sort of person and my perception that many in America are like this is very depressing to my hopes of some sort of progressive change. The average person doesn't care at all about politics, and it fully content with living their life, as you say, as a emotionally-driven consumer robot. Do you think people who have become this way can easily break out of it? Or do you think it's somewhat permanent? Generally speaking, there will of course be exceptions.<BR/><BR/>The Democratic candidates do a great job of using emotions as well. You hear Obama or Clinton talk about restoration of demoracy, corporate corruption, peace through diplomacy, healthcare, and the like. But do they actually have any concrete plans to change these things? If so, I haven't heard them. They just take the words that the actual progressive movement as their own and use them in their speeches in order to play off the positive emotions that people have associated with these things.Deltahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708796218860983185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32032570.post-81108745942679013192007-10-02T17:25:00.000-05:002007-10-02T17:25:00.000-05:00This is exactly why I can't stand Oprah. She plays the emotions of the crowd in a way that would bring a tear to the eye of any 19th Century tent show huckster.<BR/><BR/>I just saw a Mitt Romney campaign ad this morning. He had to slip in the old "Democrats, the party of big spending" talking point. It almost made me wish we really did live in a cartoon universe, so I could watch 5 pounds of corn meal fall out of his mouth after he said it. WHO has run up the deficit to levels incomprehensible to the human brain?<BR/><BR/>By the way, if you contact the makers of that spoof, thank them for including me ;-)breakerslionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14327290369084118043noreply@blogger.com