the road to yugoslavia- politics and secessionism

"politika and rtv belgrade became hollow vessels which milosevic's bureaucracy filled with seductive nonsense, designed to manipulate and feed the gullible and disoriented serbian people with a diet of suspicion and intolerance. the role of televion during the election had been especially tendentious." "fake news" "alternate facts"...other ways of saying propaganda and viewpoint...and the raw material of media, be it corporate or social...fox news and the n y times may not be overtly selling hate ( or they may be...depends on your "alternate facts" )...but they are both selling fear for all they are worth in an effort to manipulate thinking...and a lot of what they are saying is pure nonsense...distortions designed to play on perceived identity...or to divert attention from what is going on in front of our noses...and if you look closely enough they are all mediocre magicians with corroded slight-of-hand skills...an incumbent president who...

"butler flamed away and threatened a dissolution of the union with regard to his state, as sure as god was in his firmament!" willam maclay's journal of the first congress, june 11, 1789___________________________________the federal government has been deeply unpopular among various segements of its polity since its beginings ( butler was a sneator from south carolina...the roots of secessionism run deep there )...personally i don't have an issue with government provided it is reasonably representative ( there are always compromises ) of the needs and iterests of the people it represents...the current federal government is no such thing...it aims for a utopia of sameness by impoverishing us all and leaving us subject to the owners of the debt ( read the elite and their sycophants in congres and the white house...whores to an individual ) in perpetuity and all our generations...debt is the clealry the vector for this impoverishment and it is the cause of a legislativ...