THE MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 31, ISSUE 49
THE POST-RATIONAL SOCIETY
by Malik Isasis






















I think I get it now. The Republican Party was jealous of Barack Obama’s popularity, charisma, and celebrity and wanted their very own Obama all along. What else could explain the soaring popularity and celebrity of Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, the corporate media and the Republican Party has thrust upon us. For 19 months now, the Republicans and their media allies have called Obama a celebrity due to his popularity, but fast-forward to the Republican Convention and presto! Instant celebrity. Since the Republican Party believes in only power, they don’t really care if last week political tactics completely contradicts this weeks political tactics.

Watch this Fox News clip below, can you imagine the same hosts carrying on about Michelle or Barack Obama?



This from the same network that brought you gavel-to-gavel on John Edwards' hair cut--oh, wait, he's a Democrat.



THE HUPA SYNDROME®

That’s right. I’m coining a new term. HEAD UP ASS SYNDROME®. HUPA® is the condition that best describes an institution or individual consciously equating lies with truths in order to deceive and advance personal gain, e.g. Fox News or Politico, whose article, “A Maverick Who Now Must Lead” started right out of the gate with bullshit: ST. PAUL, Minn. — If you didn’t know that John McCain was a Republican, you might think he was running against the Republicans.

They really don’t care about the lies they tell do they? Here is the real McCain.



And yet, those in the media insist on referring to him as a Maverick®, or Reformer®, or Maverick-Reformer®. And now, the corporate media has repackaged McCain and Palin as change agents. Why? Because like McCain said, he agrees with Bush 95% of the time, which means, corporate America has a lot to gain financially by having another Republican in the White House. It’s as simple as that.

The Post Rational Society

We understand why corporate media and wealthy Republicans support Republicans, but why does the average, poor and down-trotted? The answer is as simple as the question, posed. Back in the 60s the Republicans, specifically Richard Nixon, seized upon disaffected white voters who began leaving the party in droves when the Democratic Party began supporting a host of social movements, but mainly the Civil Rights Movement.

The Southern Strategy was designed by Nixon and the Republicans to comfort the bigotry, sexism and prejudices of Southern white men who felt disenfranchised by the Democratic Party’s tacit support of minorities’ and women’s challenge to the white male paradigm. The Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights and civil liberties in the 60s during the empowerment movements caused a mass exodus of disenfranchised Southern white men.

The Nixon Doctrine was not adopted to address the misperceptions or heal the grievances of these so-called disenfranchised but to build a voting block of white men by pitting their interests against those of people of color and women. Although all of the disenfranchised shared more in common than not, the Southern Strategy was a euphemism for divide and conquer. This tried and true strategy worked because it fractured communities by individualizing them, if people are fighting rather than discussing their shared grief, a collective revolution is less likely. Politicians and dictators the world over understand this concept.

No matter how horrible Bush is for the country and the world, his support in the polls will never go below 30%- 33% because Nixon laid down the foundation. The poorest of the poor of Republicans are the most dogmatic about wedge issues such as race, gay marriage, abortion, and Mexicans. The so-called wedge issues keeps the Republicans’ poor wrapped up in their xenophobia. These folks have been convinced that they are the moral center of the country. They have also been convinced that being educated is elitism, staying in and living in squalor is noble, and working two or three jobs to make ends meet is American pie.



We live in a society, an American society were politicians lie outright, and despite Youtube, get away with being a Maverick®., or Reformer®., or a Maverick-Reformer®.. This bullshit works because Americans are jackasses, and were trained to be so.

Rationality has nothing to do with voting Republican because voting Republican has been transformed into a belief system similar to that of religion, where evidence is not necessary to believe in the convictions, because it’s all based in emotions and irrationality. For example, when a major conglomerate ships its company overseas for cheaper labor, the Republicans can convinced their base that it is the Mexicans who are stealing their jobs, contrary to reality. After nearly 40 years of indoctrination, Republican and media tested words like Elitist®, Value Voters®., San Francisco Liberal®., The Most-Liberal Democrat®., American Values®., Tax-Cuts®., HardWork®., and many others, trigger a response in the reptilian brain of the Republican voter that keeps them from accepting reality, which is why Republicans have dominated national politics for 30 years with help from their greatest ally, the corporate media.

So now when you hear these dumb asses shouting, "USA! USA! USA!" to their own demise, you know why.

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