ate: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:36:14 -0500
From: Karen Crowell
Subject: let the mud-slinging begin!
Well, no wonder Chathammatters is channeling his/her/its anonymous self. It’s the start of political campaigning season! He/she/it must be warming up for the mud-slinging! And we certainly can’t be honest about who we are if we want people to vote for us!
Apparently the mud-slinging target of choice is the Pittsboro Matters people – not the evil Coalition who used to take the heat for the Democrats – but they might as well be, because they are being referred to over and over again as if they were one and the same.
If you repeat something often enough, people will actually believe it. Just ask Bush how he got everybody to think that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction”. Or ask Fox News how they got everybody to think Obama wasn’t really a U.S. citizen. Or ask the oil companies how they got everybody to think “climate change” was just a hoax. Makes you wonder, why go to so much trouble? Clearly something serious was – and in some cases still is, at stake: A) political parties, B) corporations, or C) nations who stand to lose a lot of a) money, (b) power, or c) all of the above.
Things aren’t quite so bad here in Chatham County. If we’re being misled by Chathammatters, it probably isn’t going to do us a whole lot of harm. Mind you, if we were talking about coal ash in our drinking water, then that’s a whole different story. But let’s not go there. Plenty of time to address that subject in thenext go round.
I was merely pointing out the timeliness of Chathammatters’ attempt to have us all swivel our attention backwards in time and consider how much worse off we all were when someone else was running the show. It just
seems a little pathetic to me. If you can’t rely on your own record to convince people to vote for you, you have to look around and find someone else to bad-mouth instead. Certainly not anything new in the game of politics.
But it would behoove all of us to leave the mud-slinging to the pigs and focus on the Future. It will be here before we know it. Let’s decide what we want it to be and move in that direction!
Karen