Is there some subliminal messaging happening over at the MSM?  I am getting irritated by the references to populist anger every day.  What I hear is a taunting media luring the sheep to anger with some high school jab.  "Why are you not angry?  You want to be populist, don't you?"  Another jab, "Are you going to the Tea Party?  Why?  Aren't you a patriot?  A real American?"  It's the MSM bully taunting the little people, it seems to me.

This taunting also comports to the latest Christian strategy that we have probably all seen, those e-mails insisting you will be damned if you do not forward them to all of your friends.  Putting your eternal soul in jeopardy if you fail to forward some challenge to your faith is a seriously demented form of torture, in my humble opinion.  I see many Christians as individuals struggling with themselves to believe that they are good people.  Many of them are sincere people wanting to be good people.  Then there are the Christian manipulators who see these pilgrims and prey on them with Big Box religion, media masterpieces of populist worship, and those e-mails. 

One thing that was true of the Bush Administration.  w came right out and told us he was repeating the propaganda to make sure it worked, and he was planning things to sell the American people by timing when he would initiate his campaigns to create popular support.  The Bush Administration announced that he was playing us.  The MSM knew how to report the news from there.  Now, we have this unorganized MSM, still trying to play us.  Goading us with their adolescent taunts, "Be angry.  You want to be populist, don't you?!?  Everybody is doing it!"  But the poll numbers show Obama has terrific public support, so what gives?  IDo they have their own agenda now? 

Which means, rather then being #1, or a superpower.  We are ordinary.  We have managed to fall off the pedestal that was once the greatest nation on Earth, bar none.  We were there for a while, during Clinton was probably the apex.  Now this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice

Maybe we can now get the Right to stop crying about what we may lose.  We have lost it.  Now it will take all of us working together to recover our prestige and power.  The magical market has failed.  Those other countries noted in the article needed the IMF to bail them out.  We have no such luxury.  We are our own rescuers, or we perish.  If this nation fails, we can look to the Right, for they refuse to admit in these dire times, we have to share, we have to work together, or everything is for naught.  Not because of the ideology of the Left, to share, but because of the Right, who refuse will this be lost.