Post by BoW GaCAman on Sept 25, 2013 4:22:37 GMT -5
OVERNIGHT EPIPHANY
I've got the politician troubles we have in this nation (and around the world, for that matter, but in particular, here) boiled down to ONE main thing. These people are not statesmen (women, if you will) they are ACTORS. An actor can be anything he or she wishes to be. A villain in one 'scene', show, episode or play and a hero in the next. I think after the curtain goes down, they laugh the audience (us, the public) to scorn. e.g....'Joe, did you see that, I had them eating right out of my hand; ha-ha'!
That explains several things. One, why we can never seem to get out of this two-party rut we've been in for over 200 years. They just take turns acting in the national 'play' and we never have any (real) say in who gets picked for the 'cast' because there are 'personnel directors' who choose them, and it's not us. The stage never changes, only the actors, who must be of a certain 'guild' to be chosen.
Two, this goes back a long way, maybe even to the founding, or near it. The only thing that's really changed is the type of 'stages' utilized, for the 'production'. In our earliest days it was more localized, in places like open-air meetings, churches, and (especially) newspapers, which gave the players near-national exposure. Then radio/newsreels/movies came along, and finally today, the methodology is TV (C-span, MSM, internet video clips, etc.) which makes the problem 100x worse, because then it produces the 'rock star' syndrome that both Clintons were so infamous for. BHO is just a continuation of that.
Having said that, this (in a way) creates more problems than it solves. The only direct screen actor ever elected to our national office was Ronald Reagan, never known as a great onscreen talent, but highly underrated, I would say. Trouble is, how do we know when they're (meaning politicians, in general) 'acting' and when they're not? Actually, the answer would have to be never. Never, in two ways i.e. they never stop acting (even in their somewhat private lives, because they don't know when what they say in private might end up becoming public) and even when they seem not to be, they are. When they stop acting may not even be known to themselves, since the habits are so highly ingrained in them by the time they reach the national stage as to be second nature.
I remember the time Billy Clinton was caught smiling at an inopportune moment, and then saw a camera off in the distance, and immediately went into crying/sad 'mode'. That was more than likely one of the few times we got to see how things are on the 'inside' track, if only for a brief second. I remember his aide saying that in 'private' (reading that, remember the statement I just made) he spoke of blacks (for one example) as 'niggers' as did one of his acting forefathers, Lyndon Johnson.
To show one small example of how long this charade's been going on, I'll post here a small clip of former Mayor LaGuardia interviewing Medal of Honor winner Sgt. John Basilone for a newsreel clip during WW2. Basilone said later that LaGuardia obviously didn't like him, and was cold and distant until the cameras came on. He then 'warmed up' like a puppet and began to act as though they were old friends, only to go back into 'cold' mode each time they were off-camera.
I've got the politician troubles we have in this nation (and around the world, for that matter, but in particular, here) boiled down to ONE main thing. These people are not statesmen (women, if you will) they are ACTORS. An actor can be anything he or she wishes to be. A villain in one 'scene', show, episode or play and a hero in the next. I think after the curtain goes down, they laugh the audience (us, the public) to scorn. e.g....'Joe, did you see that, I had them eating right out of my hand; ha-ha'!
That explains several things. One, why we can never seem to get out of this two-party rut we've been in for over 200 years. They just take turns acting in the national 'play' and we never have any (real) say in who gets picked for the 'cast' because there are 'personnel directors' who choose them, and it's not us. The stage never changes, only the actors, who must be of a certain 'guild' to be chosen.
Two, this goes back a long way, maybe even to the founding, or near it. The only thing that's really changed is the type of 'stages' utilized, for the 'production'. In our earliest days it was more localized, in places like open-air meetings, churches, and (especially) newspapers, which gave the players near-national exposure. Then radio/newsreels/movies came along, and finally today, the methodology is TV (C-span, MSM, internet video clips, etc.) which makes the problem 100x worse, because then it produces the 'rock star' syndrome that both Clintons were so infamous for. BHO is just a continuation of that.
Having said that, this (in a way) creates more problems than it solves. The only direct screen actor ever elected to our national office was Ronald Reagan, never known as a great onscreen talent, but highly underrated, I would say. Trouble is, how do we know when they're (meaning politicians, in general) 'acting' and when they're not? Actually, the answer would have to be never. Never, in two ways i.e. they never stop acting (even in their somewhat private lives, because they don't know when what they say in private might end up becoming public) and even when they seem not to be, they are. When they stop acting may not even be known to themselves, since the habits are so highly ingrained in them by the time they reach the national stage as to be second nature.
I remember the time Billy Clinton was caught smiling at an inopportune moment, and then saw a camera off in the distance, and immediately went into crying/sad 'mode'. That was more than likely one of the few times we got to see how things are on the 'inside' track, if only for a brief second. I remember his aide saying that in 'private' (reading that, remember the statement I just made) he spoke of blacks (for one example) as 'niggers' as did one of his acting forefathers, Lyndon Johnson.
To show one small example of how long this charade's been going on, I'll post here a small clip of former Mayor LaGuardia interviewing Medal of Honor winner Sgt. John Basilone for a newsreel clip during WW2. Basilone said later that LaGuardia obviously didn't like him, and was cold and distant until the cameras came on. He then 'warmed up' like a puppet and began to act as though they were old friends, only to go back into 'cold' mode each time they were off-camera.