Political Power and Issues
Reader comment on: The Politics of News

Submitted by Stephen Huff, May 23, 2007 04:35

There have been a few successful third party campaigns in our countries history. Eventually the two big parties developed a strategy for preventing such things. They look at the political issues which are giving the third party traction and adopt those issues into their own platforms.

The lesson here is that if you want a group of people to not get political power you steal their thunder by taking over the real issues they have.

On the other hand, if you refuse to change your politics or ideology to adjust to these issues you lose power.

Bloggers are getting power because Big media and even Big Politics are too tied to inflexible ideologies to adapt to real world issues which concern the American people. This may actually lead to a successful third party bid for the Presidency in the next 12 years or so.

Decades of PC propaganda about racism and oppression have created a problem in the Black Community. Blacks who make up 12% of the population commit 30% of reported hate crimes. Whites who make up 70% commit 70%. Those were the stats when I looked them up about 4 years ago on the Department of Justice Website. Continueing the biased PC coverage of crimes between the races fans the flames of black hatred while teaching whites to distrust big media and big politics, and even increasing white sympathy with white racist groups because no one else listens or tells the stories.

Big Medias policy of not reporting black on white crime is giving political power to racist groups. This is how wars for public opinion are lost, not won. Big Media, and both political parties are too tied to their narrow ideologies to adapt and they become more polarized each year. This is dangerous and unhealthy for the body politic.

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