Politics

Somehow the most divisive president in our lifetimes and his media propagandists have convinced a large plurality of Americans he's a uniter.

"As Neil King Jr. writes, “By a more than 2-to-1 margin, poll participants say Mr. Obama is doing more than the GOP to unify the country in a bipartisan way. The poll found 48% of respondents saw Mr. Obama as trying to unify the country, compared with 22% who said that of Republicans and 37% who said that of the Democratic Party.”
That the electorate believes the president to be a unifying force for the country, and by no small amount, is completely incongruous with his actions on the campaign trail, through the fiscal cliff dispute, his inauguration speech, his State of the Union speech and now during the sequester negotiations."

It's disheartening so many Americans are so easily fooled, but then again, if they weren't easily fooled, we wouldn't be experiencing catastrophic economic collapse under the burden of government.

The showing of Italy's enough is enough party which surprised the so-called experts shows that government and its media propagandists are rapidly loosing power to control the people.

"The spectacular showing by Beppe Grillo’s Movimento 5 Stelle, which just won more votes in Italy’s general election than any other single party, represents a brand new, powerful, double-barreled trend that will reshape the way political campaigns are run and, in so doing, will reshape the future."

This is no great prediction. America's rulers have known this for a long time, and it's why they are arming DHS to wage war on us.

"The resurgence of the embattled and disgraced media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi was also unanticipated. But his strong showing was less a sign of popular support than the consequence of the mogul’s overt multi-media-vote-buying campaign, promising amnesty for tax evaders and a $5 billion tax refund to property owners."

Catering to tax revolutionaries buys votes.

"Trend 1: Media Doesn’t Matter Beppe Grillo, unlike all the other candidates, spurned Italian TV and instead built his personal presence and party strength via a 73-stop barnstorming tour and a brilliantly orchestrated Internet campaign. Nine months ago he was polling only 5 percent nationally. With the largest social media following of any politician in Europe, Grillo’s "head on the Internet, feet on the ground" rise to prominence was generated through his one million Facebook and Twitter friends and followers.
This is the trend of the future!
It is also a new millennium megatrend Gerald Celente forecast in detail in the December 1999 Trends Journal. Moreover, in terms of presence, platform and personality, it is as though Beppe Grillo had been invented for the role of the Italian version of the "Internet Candidate" Celente predicted:
The Internet Candidate
Starting in 1999, the opening salvos will be fired in the battle against the hegemony of America’s two-party political system. A combination of technological advances and seething public opinion has set the stage for the Internet candidate – a political newcomer beholden to no one and able to reach everyone."

I hate to tell Mr. Celente, but this was common knowledge in the electronics world before then. I'm amazed that after all this time, the internet has yet to overcome the mainstream media in the US. I predicted the opposite over a decade ago. It's a testiment to the power of government that it's been able to so powerfully resist the progress of civilization, and, with all the attacks government is making on the internet, it might just continue.