(02-14-2011, 06:41 PM)RonAl Wrote: Can it be that after such a long period of insane suffering that it can be so simple just to say this is too much? That we had to wait till the ascension of Gaia for the experiment to be over to put in the final report?
What a novel idea!
(02-15-2011, 02:58 PM)yossarian Wrote: This is due to the nature of the public though. There is nothing stopping people from electing Ron Paul. Society chooses to only consider candidates who are supported by the party system.
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.