Whacked-Out By The Propaganda Machines

Jonathan Glover has in his books and articles devoted himself to ethical, moral, and humanitarian  questions concerning life down here on the ground - that is, he speaks to us, to non-professional thinkers and worriers, as well as to his professional colleagues, to the meta-ethical worriers and to the moral procrastinators. Professor Glover's blog http://www.jonathanglover.co.uk/ treats many of the ethical, moral, and humanitarian issues which perplex us today - issues to which we should be alive. He remarks of his important book,

Humanity, a Moral History of the Twentieth Century, argued for the importance of the human responses of sympathy and of respect for people’s dignity. The argument appealed to the horrors that can happen when these responses are over-ridden or anesthetized. But, more generally, there are reasons to think that the purely abstract approach is too detached from other aspects of our humanity, particularly from how our moral outlook is not a purely rationalist affair, but is rooted in experiences and in relationships with people we care about.

It is of course obvious that our responses to the terrors in Africa and the Middle-East have often been both somnambulist and anesthetized - America's presidents and congress are blatant examples. Americans have been subjected to the propaganda machines of both the Democratic and Republican parties for so long that we find it imposible to sort out even the simplest of moral, political, or economic problems. If the Republican party's political strategy is founded on racialist propaganda, what is the Democratic party's political strategy founded on? Apparently the Democrat's 'strategy' is founded upon Anti-Republican propaganda. But whereas Republican propaganda might be termed hard-porn-propaganda, the Democrat propaganda might be termed soft-porn-propaganda.
     What is the purpose of our major political parties pornographic propaganda strategies? Well, for one thing, since both the Democrats and the Republicans are paid-off by the same anti-public-interest groups; the major purpose is to blind and dumb-down their constituents. The Democrat's criticism of the Republican's agenda is so lame and stupid that one wonders whether the Republican propaganda machine wrote it up for the Democrats!
        When Thomas Friedman of the New York Times suggests on Public TV that it's time for a third party, that the major political parties in the United States will continue amplifying our present economic, political, and diplomatic disasters; it's time for whacked-out voters down here on the ground  to wake up. One can (must) hope this will happen.