[Peace-discuss] Will this Bush lie fly?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Instructed helplessness, maybe. A trillion dollars spent every year in the US on 
marketing have some effect.

Under those circumstances, it's remarkable how many Americans hold to a social 
democratic/New Deal politics -- especially since they don't hear major political 
figures or the media even considering it.

And of course the bailout decision is being taken remarkably undemocratically. 
In the event of an actual democracy in the US, it wouldn't happen.  --CGE


John W. wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:26 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     "The rescue effort we're negotiating is not aimed at Wall Street --
>     it is aimed at your street." --Pres. G. W. Bush, 27 September 2008.
> 
>     Probably. --CGE
> 
> 
> And why do you suppose it will fly, Carl?   You've quoted statistics 
> about how many ordinary Americans are writing their Congresspersons to 
> express their displeasure with the proposed bailout (10 to 1 against, 99 
> to 1 against, etc.)  If the Americans on Main Street are not 
> unintelligent or uninformed, why do so many of the transparently 
> mendacious Bush lies fly?  Learned helplessness on the part of the 
> American people?
> 
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