Why the Fascists will win

In these modern days anyone with any perspective must admit that people seem to be getting markedly more stupid. Some blame Fox News and the other propaganda organs of power. Sure, Rupert Murdoch makes certain that his companies belch nothing but biased one sided party jargon, but so what? Any political party is in essence a vehicle for groupthink. You sign away your ability to think for yourself and subscribe to a pedantic world view as espoused by your political representatives. That is how bourgeois party politics works. So what right does any of us have to criticize the Republicans for playing the game like pros? It isn't like the media is this sacrosanct organ of democracy that some people think it is. From the beginning, papers are nothing more than the platform from which one group or another, pitches their take on reality. So when Fox News starts going off about anything, they are just doing their job. Like the various parties of the Weimar Republic, political parties of all stripes in America just simply don't know how to combat the effectiveness of Republican propaganda. Thus do they decry media consolidation and corporate influence, like it is some new plague. The fact of the matter is, capitalism based democracy is a dirty business, always has been, always will be. All that nonsense about the Constitution and freedom is really just an idea; a concept sold to children to make them think they are living in an ideal society. Blaming Republicans for the insidious nature of politics is about as stupid and ignorant as thought gets. It is like blaming Michael Jordan for raising the bar in the NBA. The only certain result from party politics is that the most effective users of propaganda win...end of story... So next time you think about bashing a party, left or right, take a moment to acknowledge that you are an idiot for associating with them anyway. Power doesn't well up from some mystical spring in Washington DC, it comes from people. If only people could understand that propaganda is little more than brainwashing done through subtle means, maybe we would start turning our TVs off and start thinking.