"The American public has been lied to and not told the full story so often that now they'll buy anything people tell them. They want information that they feel that they are not getting," a bar customer says. Thus, the popularity of Palin, the Tea Party, the assortment of crazies. And people (those who have been trained from an early age not to read The New York Times) will buy what you sell them, whether or not there is anything good in what you are selling them.
Indeed, what happened to the personal dream of the white picket fence, the family, the healthy environment, the good schools, the prospect of retirement, peace between the basic wisdom of the world's seemingly divergent cultural groups? War, oil, billionaires, erosion of employment, economic disparity, ecological disaster...
Big food interests keep on selling the sugary baked goods and corn syrup laden sodas and fried foods, and Americans get fat, diabetic and inflamed to the point of being unable to move. Pharmaceutical companies, profit oriented, create and define maladies in order to sell us, the organic being, magic pills, where natural herbal medicines and proper diet and exercise exist quite beyond and before the chemical laboratory. Where does it all end?
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