Thought control and governance in America’s future

Will thought control end in fire or ice?

One can call thought control information control and distribution. It has an old term of propaganda. The newer term is spinning the news, or facts, or information, or whatever. The professionals at this in America are now media masters, usually for hire. The audience for propaganda and spinning is always selective, be they local or regional or national. Usually media masters pay pollsters to provide a poll result, usually skewed towards the paymasters desired outcome, later used for profit and media spin. If in doubt, just work in a family business where cousins spend most time debating and constructing and agreeing on the poll questions before they might ever accept the votes of the same people.

In the old not too distant past, one had to actually debate and discuss facts and proposed policies among their peers, who were still accustomed to listening and being thoughtful, and deciding their opinion. Most of this debate was local, as to public education policy or about the local sand quarry proposal.

Much of that not too distant past still exists, thank goodness. But the times they are a changing. More and more people are choosing to use hired government officials to try get their way. In this course of action, they can pay or vote or bull their way to their desired option, vice debating the idea and winning in this court of ideas. Depending on where one lives, most of these courses of action still fail…so far.

One area where local control seems to be under attack is in public education, an American tradition. For logical reasons there has been consolidation of curriculums at the state and federal levels. Even testing and books are now a big business in implementing all this. But the output is disappointing in the quality of kid’s ability to exist in the workplace. This is a fancy way of saying they are ill-educated, or better said, we have failed them. And the answer is not more money to the system, it is rather holding people accountable for results…kinda like the military’s “up or out” system. Teaching is not a career, but an opportunity.

This idea applies to how America is governed in our future, near and far. We must educate our future citizens better than the last two decades or so have done. Then if they vote to govern and tax themselves in their way, so be it. Most of this idea means competing in the arena of ideas, which of course is difficult in times of so many attempting to stifle debate or just ignore others in pursuit of their ideas.

The Democratic Party is disintegrating in front of our American eyes. So is the whole socialist agenda, and well as the presently hired media people. Alive and well are many benefit payment programs. Here is an historic opportunity to lead Americans whether they are presently republican or democrat. Most important is to stifle propagandists and now media masters, and promote discussion and debate. This is so American.

And you know what. Our future voters may go the socialist route, but at least it will be an educated choice. Many will guess otherwise.

So is it fire or ice? Only time will tell.