"I Was A Patsie" Said Lee Harvey Oswald (To A Nation Of Patsies)

"What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA. In turn comic, indignant, outraged, and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less." (2004)

 

 

"[The Clintons have] an eerie, unattractive ability to get liberals to keep their mouths shut"

CNN repeats smear of Obama supporters as “creepy” and “cult-like”

"That's why I got out of the Democratic Party, for sure, because that is one giant cult"

 

 "They think it's a messaging issue, but messaging is not the problem: reality is the problem"

The Democrat Party's open embrace of the NewAge movement vs. reality. It's a nightmare. And a long-running one: if America is so sufficiently educated that our government warned quackery was an $84 billion scandal by 1984, how were the people so brain dead that Oprah - by the early 2000s - could establish Dr. Oz as "America's Doctor"? Why wasn't there an immediate government intervention, plus a groundswell of public indignation, at Winfrey and television executives, after her (remember: educated) audience immediately recognized she was promoting a fraud over U.S. airwaves? 

 Because nobody saw a goddamn thing, that's why.

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

By the year 2000, Bill Clinton (who had been playing around in the NewAge movement for decades) was already on a tear to legitimize the concept of evidence being malleable (and, apparently, he's still a huge fan). But his job was to protect America from fraud like that. And now, we're over two decades into this thing, and everything's falling apart, because so little can be nailed down. Hardly anything can reach resolution. And anyone, paying attention, should be able to recognize, part of the reason for that is, the Democrat Party's relationship to evidence has A) gotten very slippery, and B) expanded beyond the parameters of alternative medicine. 

Two recent examples being the successful, 5 year-long, Hillary Clinton-inspired Russia hoax - featuring no evidence whatsoever - that was fully supported as fact by Democrats across the nation. And now, the massive amount of evidence against the Biden family that, somehow, the Democrat Party, just as miraculously, cannot see. For them, evidence - as a concept - has become twisted and strange.

   

 Kind of like "Homeopathic Iron Man" 

   

You may not think NewAge spirituality and American politics are logically connected at first, but, like Oprah looking good while totally fucking you over, they are. (As logical as the notion that, if everything NewAge is "harmless," then the website dedicated to its many mistakes will be called "What's the harm?") Oprah is now a Washington lobbyist, with at least three of her accolades and "spiritual advisers" now vying for political power in their own right. And, when the Vice President of the United States is someone gullible, or cynical enough to have dated Montel talking-to-the-dead Williams, then it's undeniable.

Clearly, the NewAge movement now has the power to turn fellow Democrats into unquestioning idiots - even those who'd never go near Oprah - babbling any conspiracy theory they're told to run with. But what's important is, once again, our educated public doesn't catch it. Time to say it again:

         

 "Propaganda only works when you do not have a well-informed population"

One of the few things I am 100% sure of is that we have a population that's "well-informed" enough to keep psychics in business. They all know their star signs and any details about them. They keep psychics, chiropractors, and homeopaths doing a brisk business. They're collectively going vegan. They are also collectively practicing yoga (though Indians, mostly, do not). Most Democrat voters can imagine no higher calling than attempting to be blissfully "happy" at all times, even if it's totally manufactured, and especially if they can do it in a group. In other words, the next generations of Americans are being groomed as a NewAge cult. A nation of Burning Men.

Primed to believe just about anything.