We see an influx of celebrities recording anti-gun PSA’s in the wake of the elementary school shootings in Connecticut. We see some famous folks defending their violent movies and music lyrics as well.

You have to be a special type of idiot to not see the stunning amount of hypocrisy. Political pundits, as well as others entrenched in pop culture, are stating that they’re offended that people are pointing fingers at their craft. Pop culture is called that for a reason. Popular culture is a collection of all that is hip in the present time, and it’s all from what is influential.

What I find offensive is an actor passionately defending shooting up villages in a war movie, or a rapper stating that his lyrics have no effect of culture whatsoever. I was a kid once. I remember former friends of mine walking and talking like the gangsta rappers of the 90s; and sadly, some of them still do. A colleague of mine was so influenced by ‘Goodfellas’ and the ‘Godfather’ film series that he started up an online mafia game/clothing store/magazine. Some people are actually influenced by those movies to the point of trying to emulate Michael Corleone or Big Paul.

Celebrities know they have influence. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be recording political service announcements or fundraising for politicians and their favorite causes; and they certainly wouldn’t be bragging about things in their songs or interviews. Current TV wouldn’t be playing ‘Bowling For Columbine’ after a shooting if they didn’t think movies could influence the public.

Media outlets wouldn’t openly state their right-leaning or left-leaning views if they think it didn’t sway people’s thoughts or actions. Propaganda is a strong tool; and advertisers, politicians, and celebrities know it.

What’s worse is not everyone realizes this. What can we do to help open some eyes and teach people to think objectively? We need to have a different influence…a new pop culture. We need a culture of people who think with logic and not emotion. One of the best benefits would be fewer celebrities being hypocritical ignoramuses.

Having lived in the realm of politics for some time as a commentator now, I have become aware of the many hypocrisies involved. We all know the usual flip-flopping, the straight-out lying, and the failed promises of politicians and their mouthpieces in the media. The one thing that really frustrates me the most isn’t from the politicians, though.

Sheeple. They are people who soak up the misinformation and lies by politicians and their propaganda arm, the mainstream media. Even if a person states something that I can agree with, but they can’t explain their reasoning for coming to that conclusion, they are a problem as well.

Worse are the people with selective outrage. They have come to conclusions based on emotion and not logic, usually from soaking up a politician’s or media network’s agenda-driven BS.

Selective outrage is exploding all over the country in light of the tragedy in Connecticut. Emotions always run high after a senseless incident like a mass murder or a terrorist attack. Now that politicians see an opening to force a policy change down our throats, they are in high gear with shaping the emotions of sheeple. Emotional thinking is void of all logic.

Here’s an easy example. After Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast of the US, there were wide area cases of looting.  The media had no problem showing signs in front of houses with sayings such as “You Loot, We Shoot.” (I actually like those signs, but that’s not the point.) Now after the senseless killings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, the establishment determined it’s the perfect time to disarm America. Emotions are running high. The anti-gun crowd is out in full force. “Tolerant” liberals are threatening the lives of gun owners and the NRA. (That’s another story, but it all ties into selective outrage.) It’s citizens’ hypocrisy as a result of the establishment’s hypocrisy. The same folks who are screaming now about banning guns and demanding that our President ban guns are the same crowd that sat silently as President Obama’s administration ran guns into Mexico resulting in the deaths of teenagers there.

These same all-of-a-sudden anti-gun folks sat silently weekend after weekend as gang members killed one another, along with innocent citizens by the dozens. They’re also the people who didn’t care about the fact that the Obama administration is supplying countries and terrorist organizations in the Middle East with money and weaponry, who then use the materials and cash to kill our soldiers and allies.

It’s the worst kind of hypocrisy in my opinion. These misinformed, know-nothing, hypocritical, selective outrage sufferers are a great threat to our republic because they vote. They vote based on their emotions. They are the reason social issues have become heavily entrenched into political discourse. Social and economic issues are now intertwined, and it’s eroding our traditions. As long as the same career/establishment politicians are in power, and the masses continue to fund the mainstream media that indoctrinates them, things won’t change.You can thank the sheeple for today’s social and political climate, and I’ll thank you tomorrow when you join me in changing it.

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This week, in an interview with ABC, President Obama said some things that troubled me.  I mean… they’re not things that I already didn’t know, but they are things that his ignorantly blind supporters will not notice. Is it denial, stupidity, or both?

This past Tuesday, Obama stated “When you look at the evidence, it’s not clear that it actually saves a lot of money. But what I’ve said is, let’s look at every avenue, because what is true is we need to strengthen Social Security, we need to strengthen Medicare for future generations, the current path is not sustainable because we’ve got an aging population and health care costs are shooting up so quickly.”

There is so much wrong with that statement, and most Obama worshipers won’t notice it. He stated “We need to strengthen Medicare for future generations, the current path is not sustainable.”  Why did Obama say in the debates and throughout the campaign that his 700 billion dollar cut to Medicare meant “savings”?

When asked about raising the Medicare eligibility age, he stated, “when you look at the evidence, it’s not clear that it actually saves a lot of money.” What the President fails to mention, and I guarantee his legion of worshippers don’t even know, is that he agreed to raising the age in the failed negotiations nearly two years ago. This becomes a bigger problem for me because for any Republican to even entertain the idea of raising Medicare eligibility along with possible tax hikes proves that my hunch about the Republican leadership is correct. They are establishment progressives, and these ideas only advance the deterioration of America’s economy.

My point is that too many people don’t pay attention to the hidden gems buried within politicians’ statements. They are very telling, and it troubles me that many people can’t read into them.

Leadership on both sides of the aisle are in a power struggle and are NOT representing their constituencies, and we need to clean house in the upcoming elections if we want to change course. Down with the establishment!

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