Countering the Negative

Too often lately I have had to listen to someone say, I agree with Dennis but I cannot vote for him because he is unelectable. Oh really?
What makes people say that? I had begun to think it was about the difficulty Kucinich has getting his ideas out to the public, how often the media trashes him and makes fun of him and his ideas. Then I realized that was not the case, and I didn't realize this because I had some golden and grand insight into the problem, but because Suzanne came up with it this morning and it was sheer genius.
I had be expounding on the clash between the gatekeepers and the people who just think in negative terms. Then she rightly, I do think, saw that it had more, much more to do with the ways in which we have all been infantilized by our government. We never have to see or hear an awful thing, for example, about this war and when we are exposed to it, it is cropped and abridged so the full horrors of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are kept from us. In fact, it is even worse than that, we let those who show us that horror be attacked for being unAmerican and traitors for daring to suggest anything our soldiers do can be anything but the most noble and honest and exceptional only because they are Amerians.
Returning to Suzanne's perception though, it is clear that if we are told that someone is unelectable we believe it. We don't ask why or how that idea came into being. We let them say because they can say it and are in need of keeping someone like Kucinich from being in the White House that he is unelectable and then we all fall into line and say the same thought without ever asking ourselves is that true?
Not unlike what we were fed about the need for war with Afghanistan and Iraq, we tend to parrot what we are told and rarely question whether there is any truth to it. Even now when we have been told so many lies, we tend to continue to believe what the authorities say, because we have been educated that way. Authority figures are the supreme commanders of our thoughts and deeds. In school, we cannot challenge it and as we continue in life, there is no way we can alter that early imprinting unless we are aware that it has happened to us.
Think back as to why you believe that Dennis is unelectable. Just come up with the reasons for them saying this. What are those reasons? Isn't it funny, but there aren't any that come to mind because we have only been sold a bill of goods that are not really there. It is like three-card monty on the streets. You think you see the card that you should bet on but you are just being fooled while your pocket is being picked.
The next time someone says to you that Dennis Kucinich is unelectable, ask that person why. Let him or her try and formulate the reasons and see if they have any more meaning than that they have just been told that so often they believe it.
My response is we should all grow up and learn to make these decisions for ourselves. Vote for the man who does care about you and your needs and then tell the authorities that you are an adult too and can make up your own mind, take responsibility for how this country is governed and in the end of it all behave like the ones who need to make the difference because that is the job of all adults.