America's New Political Power Tool for the People, the American Press is Losing/Taking a Backseat to the Net, in Influence over American Politics:

The Internet Revolution; America's New Political Power Tool for the People, the American Press is Losing/Taking a Backseat to the Net, in Influence over American Politics:
By Marc Chamot

It was back around November 1986 when then former President Ronald Reagan signed America’s first immigration amnesty law, a law that was being pushed by the majority Democrats in congress at the time. It was a law which the majority of Americans did not support.

Back then we had a sold out media press corps, who were asked by these politicians to sell to the American people, to sell the idea of amnesty for five million illegal aliens running loose in this country, but those were the times when Americans had no computers, no emails, just a lowly typewriter and the U.S. snail mail services, which most Americans didn’t have the time to fight back.

To sell the idea of amnesty to Americans, it was pretty simple, let’s promise them that we will shut down the border with Mexico, and this will be the last of illegal immigration we’ll ever see in this country, we promise.

Then Reagan and congress passed this new law, against the better wishes of most Americans at the time. American’s voices weren’t being heard by these politicians, we were all screwed.

The only thing that disgusted Americans could do was bitch and moan in local bars, or at work, then someone would cry out, “Well hell man, that’s our government, they can do whatever they want, right? Didn’t you know that man?”

Well, yeah. I guess.

Let’s fast forward to 1994, the year of the Republican revolution in the U.S. congress.

That was under former President Bill Clinton. These Republicans wanted to begin enforcements of an agreed past trade treaty between Canada, Mexico and the United States, NAFTA. Most Americans were dead set against it, but these politicians, coolly beckoned the American press corps once again, to sell Americans on the cool things about NAFTA, like being able to by your next drill set for half the price you’ve been accustomed to paying for. Imagine folks, what the cheap labor will do for you, you’ll save a whole lot of money for future consumer goods. Your money will go a very long way.

It was quite ingenious really! Basically government pitted American labor vs. American consumers, it was a great strategy, and government let Americans with their greed to have affordable imported products win over American labor and lost jobs.

Bill Clinton and the Republican congress signed this into law, the NAFTA bill against the better wishes of most Americans at the time. And once again, American voices weren’t being heard by these politicians, we were all screwed again.

But guess what folks? These cheap prices for those drill sets never materialized. These corporate magnates were wowed, by the extra cash from cheap labor which provided them, they decided to keep their prices the same at Wal-Mart and other places, they racked in billions of dollars in pure profit!

But those were the times when Americans just started with computers, with the Internet, and emails, but these services were in its infancy.

The only thing that disgusted Americans could do was bitch and moan in the local bars, or at work, and then someone would cry out, “Well hell man, that’s our government, they can do whatever they want, right? Didn’t you know that man?”

Well, yeah. I guess.

And now in 2009, 24 years after the 1986 amnesty bill, our 5 million illegal immigrants who got amnesty, most got their citizenships, while our borders were never sealed, and now we’ve got a bursting 12 plus million more illegal aliens in this country.

In 2009, 15 years after the 1994 NAFTA bill, our manufacturing job loses have exceeded 4 million lost American workers. China has benefited the most, and they are the country of origin of most flooded products that is found on most of our store shelves around this country.

But something very interesting happened right before President George Bush’s second term, in 2004.

This was the time the Internet began to get into high gear. Political blogs, political message boards, political discussion boards, political community boards, and political websites were beginning to blossom. That is where it all began, the negativities on former President Bush and the Republicans.

While the usual mainstream media and the suck-up press stayed on the sidelines to watch, the Internet was becoming relentless and ruthless on President Bush and his Republicans. The majority of the people on the Net were so punishing hard, and unfortunately when the press began to catch on; George Bush was into his second term as president to affect his re-election.

In 2005, the negativities on Bush and the Republicans began to spill unto the mainstream media, which caused the toppling of the Republicans majority in both the senate and U.S. congress in 2006.

Then in 2009, walks in the Internet and media savvy, President Barack Obama.

Barack Obama won the presidency, not only it was because of the mainstream media who were eating out of his hands, Obama also had the gazillions of Internet volunteers who were trolling around the net posting his messages all over. He had the best of both worlds in that election.

Things were once pretty rosy for President Obama, and it still is with most of the mainstream media around, but what I am now seeing, are more of the same Bush negative strategies being deployed on the Net against President Obama.

All of this can be a devastating jobs approvals killer and a popularity killer for any president, and for the political party in power, especially when Americans are not being heard, ignored, and issues facing most Americans are not being met.

It’s quite noticeable, while the mainstream presses are trying hard to suppress some of Obama negativities; the Internet is on fire with them. Why is that?

Well folks, I’ve got great news for you all. We all through the Internet; we now control what we want done in our country.

We through the Internet can also raise armies of voices and allies in matter of hours, we can flood all of our elected politicians with millions of monthly emails if we have to, it’s all something that was virtually impossible to do in the past, under traditional letter writing campaigns and snail mails.

Most Americans have totally disavowed the traitorous press, which is why their circulation is dwindling at an alarming rate; Americans now days go to the Net to read like minded opinions and articles, mainly about the ills and wrongs happening in this country.

Take the racial issue with professor Henry Louis Gates as an example, when Obama made his negative comments on the cops, Obama’s press, his media darlings, covered it up for hours, and they were hoping it wouldn’t ignite on the Internet, but it caught fire on the Net anyway, and the press could no longer ignore the story.

And the latest Obama healthcare reform is a big example on how Americans put the immediate brakes on an insane deficit busting healthcare program, which Democrats were blindingly going for and still are.

If you don’t believe me about the power of the Net, check out how the Internet almost brought down the totalitarian Iranian regime, and others. China is doing all it can to curb, restrict the net from creating a rebellion against their own communist and anti-human rights government.

This is no longer 1986, or 1994, it’s the new age of the Internet for Americans.

The Internet and most regular Americans will now rule America, whether these politicians and their media corps of cronies like it or not. The Internet is our new domain and source for power, and we are going to be heard this time around. We will no longer tolerate contrarian Washington decisions being made against our wills, ever again.