[lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sat Feb 19 06:18:24 PST 2011


On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:46:14 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
>
> On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:56 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
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> > On Fri, February 18, 2011 5:56 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >>> Tahrir Square has demolished the ideological underpinnings of
> the
> >>> Terror War.
> >>
> >> For whom?
> >
> > For ordinary Americans bamboozled by US elites.
>
> 1) I'm not sure of that, but in any case, they'll probably go back
> to "normal" pretty soon. And 2) So what? Since when do the imperial
> managers care what the masses think?

When I think it's more accurate to say that the imperial managers don't care about what the masses think, in the sense that they do not and will not conform their actions in accordance with what the masses think. But at the same time, the imperial managers do care very much about public opinion as evidenced by the fact that they spend large sums of money every year in propoganda efforts that aim to "manufacture consent," as Walter Lippman put it some ninety years ago.

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