Reply #26: By George, I think she's got it! [View All]

Take the example of health care. All the candidates except Kucinich and the two African-Americans had some variation of "subsidize the insurance companies (directly or indirectly) to continue screwing patients, only broadening the base of patients so that they can screw almost everybody, except for the people who are left out, but whadda ya gonna do?"

The New York Times and other mainstream media had long, detailed articles about the health care proposals of Kerry, Dean, Clark, Edwards, Lieberman, and Gephardt. the articles would either not mention DK, AS, and CMB at all or would end with a sentence saying that those three candidates proposed "socialized medicine" or "a single payer plan" without explaining what that was.

DK's proposal to cut the Pentagon budget by 15% and his revelation that the Pentagon was unable to account for $1.3 trillion over the past twenty years received no mainstream coverage that I was aware of.

Going up against the coddled, overfed insurance companies and the coddled, overfed "defense" establishment threatens the wealthy corporate types who control our media. They're afraid that these ideas might actually make sense if people heard about them, and if I've learned anything in my lifetime, it's that the Big Boys watch out for one another.