i think the plan made for the planet is flopping again

[yossarian]

That's a great example. I campaigned intensely for Ron Paul, and witnessed him getting censored from the media. They actually edited the news reports, leaving him out, even though he won in the early primaries. I saw the original AP reports and the edited reports in the mass media. He was also censored from some of the debates, actually not invited even though he had a right to be there. And the debates he did participate in, he was ridiculed by the commentators and all the other candidates treated him with scorn and condescension.

The media commentators basically dictated to the American people what to think, and the people ate it up. The commentators said he had no chance at winning, even though he was winning all the straw polls.

It was a total farce.

So, ideally, yes, if enough people rose up and supported some independent candidate, it could be done. But the closest we've seen to that happening was the Ron Paul Revolution, and it failed miserably, due to the blindness of the masses and their being subject to the manipulation of the mass media.

You're expecting way too much. The Ron Paul Revolution was a massive success. It was a baby step towards future victories by independents. It forced mainstream candidates to shift towards his policies, and millions of people learned about free market principles and discovered that the mainstream media has biases.

The Ron Paul Revolution woke up thousands if not millions of people. This is a success!

Yes, the media is controlled, because the public allows it to be. The media conglomerates are private companies that would die tomorrow if everyone stopped watching. If the public wants the truth it has to demand the truth.

You give the "masses" way too little credit for their own predicament. They have the true power and many people are beginning to recognize media bias - more people than ever before. The traditional TV networks are losing viewership in droves to independent internet news sources precisely because people are waking up to the fact that they have an agenda.

It boggles my mind how you're able to take a massive success like Ron Paul's candidacy and see it as a failure. He did things that have never been done before! He exposed an entire generation of people to ideals that various mind controllers had presumed dead. And he demonstrated the power of the internet.

Change doesn't happen overnight. It happens one small victory at a time. Ron Paul was one victory. Obama was another victory. Just this month in Canada public outcry started and spread online was able to defeat internet curmudgeons - it's called the UBB scandal.

The mainstream Canadian media was loathe to give any attention to the movement which picked up all its momentum online. But over 1% of Canada's population made their voices heard by writing to our elected officials and the government stepped in directly because they knew if they didn't they would lose the next election. It's that simple. Canada has a democracy just like the USA and if the public makes their voice heard their will will be done.

All the power rests with the public. If they choose to allow their media sources to be biased, then so be it. That is the choice they are making and they will suffer the consequences. But if they insist that their media sources be unbiased and fair then those media sources will have absolutely no choice in the matter and will either change or die.

Mind control is real but no mind control is all powerful. I think the lesson being taught to a great many people on this 3D plane is to start exercising their power and stop giving it away to authorities who don't have their best intentions in mind. Whether the lesson is necessary or not, I don't know. But that's the situation and I am full of optimism. Compared to 1970 our media is so much more free and open and honest. That's progress.

As long as we're moving in the right direction I say that is cause for celebration. Ron Paul was a huge move in the right direction.