Jeffrey, the media are corporations, just like Exxon, Bank of America, WalMart, BlackRock.
They were incorporated to produce a profit,. they look out for themselves and their class (corporations)
Populism has arisen in various forms, an early manifestation is in SPQR, Senatus Populus que Romanus
The establishment, the media was the vehicle as was education, gave populism a bad name.
Williams Jennings Bryan is the first populist on record, He mixed economic populismwith right wing, racist, religious and antisemitic tropes.
Huey Long did the same thing.
We have no example of left wing populism until Bernie, and the establishment came together to smash it.
Right wing populism because it is pro money, pro business, pro corporation has been promoted by the corporate media and has become normal
So normal that is not called or recognized as populist, and the label populist is now used as an epithet and the recipients are Bernie and his supporters, like you and I.
It is sad but true, people have short memories, they live in the present,hardly a thought to the future (how many save, have life insurance, have a will), thinking takes time, it hurts and alas it requires a certain level of intelligence, thus people are susceptible to propaganda, and the source of propaganda is the media, which now includes the internet and cell phone aps.
The real battleground is for pushing engrams.
An “engram” refers to the enduring offline physical and/or chemical changes that were elicited by learning and underlie the newly formed memory associations.
Memory engrams: Recalling the past and imagining the future
Control what a person thinks they know and you control what a person thinks and does.
Jeffrey, the media are corporations, just like Exxon, Bank of America, WalMart, BlackRock.
They were incorporated to produce a profit,. they look out for themselves and their class (corporations)
Populism has arisen in various forms, an early manifestation is in SPQR, Senatus Populus que Romanus
The establishment, the media was the vehicle as was education, gave populism a bad name.
Williams Jennings Bryan is the first populist on record, He mixed economic populismwith right wing, racist, religious and antisemitic tropes.
Huey Long did the same thing.
We have no example of left wing populism until Bernie, and the establishment came together to smash it.
Right wing populism because it is pro money, pro business, pro corporation has been promoted by the corporate media and has become normal
So normal that is not called or recognized as populist, and the label populist is now used as an epithet and the recipients are Bernie and his supporters, like you and I.
It is sad but true, people have short memories, they live in the present,hardly a thought to the future (how many save, have life insurance, have a will), thinking takes time, it hurts and alas it requires a certain level of intelligence, thus people are susceptible to propaganda, and the source of propaganda is the media, which now includes the internet and cell phone aps.
The real battleground is for pushing engrams.
An “engram” refers to the enduring offline physical and/or chemical changes that were elicited by learning and underlie the newly formed memory associations.
Memory engrams: Recalling the past and imagining the future
Control what a person thinks they know and you control what a person thinks and does.