Internal Exile

Tonight I watched Oprah as she discussed the topic "Truth in America". She had Frank Rich as her guest. He has written the book "The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina". Let me say right up front I haven't read the book.

However, the discussion which took place on the show was eye opening. The majority of the audience said they didn't believe the propaganda prior to the war in 2003. Most of them knew Hussein had no connection to 9/11.

Let's take a step back for a moment. If a person has not been taught to recognize the difference between the truth and a lie, whether by teaching from a parent or simply by life lessons, we probably cannot expect the citizens of this country to comprehend when their government is telling them the truth or feeding them perpetual lies.

I also believe you have to be a person who reads and reads A LOT in order to be able to separate the truth from a lie. Most of the studio audience for the Oprah show doesn't believe what they're being told in the MSM. Thank goodness! We are bombarded with news from every source imaginable and it's up to us to decide what we believe and what we don't.

In this new age of technology, we have numerous sources available to us in order to seek out the truth. I can't begin to comprehend the state of mind the majority of Americans would be in right now if we didn't have the internet to help balance out the information we receive. Television news has become an amazing source of yellow journalism across the dial. We see stories pop up daily which we know are NOT the truth yet these networks choose to buy into the propaganda in order to serve their own agendas. Accountability and integrity have flown out the window in the name of earning big bucks by pushing nonsense about celebrities, politics and daily occurrences.

After six continuous years of lies, spin and propaganda, I believe the tide is beginning to turn. People who seemed to be duped easily in the past are waking up. When somebody shows you who and what they are, believe them. The entire Bush Administration has been keeping their spin machine alive and well for too long. The public is starting to see through the veil of secrecy, lies and deception. I say it's about damn time!

There have been times in my life over the past couple of years I just wanted to stand on my front porch and yell, "WAKE UP AMERICA"!!!!! I was getting so frustrated and didn't understand why so many people choose to either buy the lies, ignore current events altogether or choose to be deaf, dumb and blind.

I feel a lot of these attitudes people choose in their lives is usually based in the lessons from the past. Conservatives who have been raised in conservative households, progressives raised in progressive homes, traditions handed down from generation to generation influences way too many people in this country. So many choose to not think for themselves. They follow down the same path and line of thinking their parents and grandparents had during their "impressionable" years.

This is not what happened to me. My entire family was staunch Republicans. I can remember watching current events on TV with my mother and grandmother. They would be making comments out loud about the topic and I always seemed to have the opposite view. It was like that throughout my childhood. Even today my mother has opinions completely opposite of my own. Needless to say we have agreed to disagree and do not discuss politics.

I'm glad there are more people waking up to the truth. It's taken too long for the majority out there to comprehend when they're being lied to by the people they want to believe is telling them the truth. I have done my fair share in writing to network television, local newspapers and my representatives in Washington. Each one of us has a duty to let those sources know when we disagree with their stories. If every American simply sat back and never questioned their government, there would be no accountability.

Keep writing those letters! Let your voice be heard near and far! If more of us did just that, maybe we'd actually see some results. It takes all of us working together in order to see change. Otherwise I fear the U.S. is doomed.