People like Bill Clinton say you can’t fight for your agenda unless you’re in office, and you have to be better than the next guy if you ever want to win office, because its combat. But the truth is you can’t win the battle because the game is fixed. You can’t motivate folks if you can’t get the message out to them, and even in the internet era, you can’t get the message out to them unless you can get it past the gatekeepers. Who are the gatekeepers? Aside from those of us who live in the world, whose strings are pulled by our own self-interested as filtered through those of our employers, the gatekeepers to public opinion are the corporate media — television, radio, newspapers, even the movies. But these media entities are all corporate entities first and foremost, operating for profit. Therefore, they are slaves to the power of money, not the bastions of truth that they and the people they serve would have you believe. People like Bill Clinton and Al Gore and John Kerry operate within the box. They believe that there is a consensus out there that largely agrees with them, and all they have to do is get the message out, and they’ll win. The funny thing is they’re right. Any working person, any minority or any right-thinking woman would be a fool to vote Republican, given their agenda. But such people do vote Republican, in droves. Why? It is because their belief systems are constructed, managed, manipulated and maintained, intentionally and consciously by an immense establishment. An establishment so vast, so wealthy, so powerful, that the people who operate within it aren’t even aware of its existence, even as it delineates their actions.