Have We Become THAT Dumbed Down??????

With the Presidential debate a few hours away, a shockingly surprising thing has happened...... the polls in America and "swing states" have tightened dramatically. As if by some magic, Donald Trump has erased his treatment of grieving parents of a dead soldier, his comments about the reckless use & proliferation of nukes, treatment of women..... even demeaning their appearance with a dead raccoon atop his head, that Black & Hispanic voters have now decided that they "don't have anything to lose" since their lives are so bad in the first place (doo-dah, yas boss) and the myriad of other outrageous and untruthful things that spout from his mouth every "3:15 minutes" have somehow all been forgotten by America!


Yes we are a "dumbed down America" from the 1960's, but not that dumb! So who would profit from a tightening Presidential race? Pollsters can sell more polls. Networks can get more viewers and charge MORE for their advertising because of it. America stays interested & concerned over the outcome, watching MORE television news and commentary, who then charge MORE for advertising. Newspapers, the few people still buy, will sell more. Magazines will sell more. On-line blogs & news sources like the Huffington Post, get more hits and MORE MONEY.

There is a trend here. The race may well be tightening, but not to a "dead heat" just in time for the first debate! Are we now THAT dumb?

Many years ago, in my "political infancy" a "pundit" whose name I have forgotten said very wisely, something to the effect that: "One Party could nominate a turnip and the other Party could nominate a pumpkin and they EACH would get 47% of the vote because that is where the American electorate sits. 94% are set in their party! SIX PERCENT of America is undecided and it is these Americans who decide the election."

That statement made me determined to always be one of the six percent and I was...... until the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the theft of the 2000 election from Gore, the hijacking of the Republican party by christian radical fundamentalists and the total obstruction of the entire Obama Presidency, cured me forever of Republicanism!

So up to 100 million Americans will watch the "Great Debate of 2016". This will earn millions of dollars for many people, not during the debate, but for the few days after and leading up to the election. I predict the polls will remain tight and will move back and forth between now and then and in January we will have not just a new President, but cable news networks, newspapers (on-line and traditional), networks and all the "sellers of soap" that advertised between now & then, will report record fourth quarter earnings...... thanks to these polls and the concern they generated!

Republicans will pray for for a rainy day nationwide on November 8th, because Democrats don't vote in as many numbers as Republicans do when there is inclement weather. Democrats will hope that as in 1968, Nixon's "Silent Majority" will again rise up and the six percent of us that decide elections, will move to the saner of the two candidates as they did then and again in 2008.

Whatever happens, America again has been done a disservice through the media being a "controlled media", this time and every time..... driven like so much in this new millennia, by the bottom line!