People should just listen.....

I don't really understand how people can just ignore the things around them and think their life is just peachy. Do these people not listen? Let me give you some background as to why I might bring this up, and then we will move into whether I think people really know what they are hearing or how to apply it to their lives. I have been anti-war from the day after 9/11 and have stated many times to friends and family that the pretenses used for the war were lies, to which they just replied I was being unpatriotic or paranoid. Fast forward 6 years and now everyone knows that the weapons of mass destruction and the "War on Terror" are shams, and yet no one contests what they are hearing. Instead you have all these news anchors spouting that "everyone" was fooled and "everyone" agreed with the reasons for war. I'm sorry, but I know for a fact that Bushes approval rating never broke 90%, so I guess that 10% doesn't count in the term "everyone".

My question isn't that why aren't these people being asked to make their opinions known, but rather why we still listen to the morons who tricked the majority of the people into thinking the way the government wanted them to think? Many just sit their complacent to the media, not even paying attention to the fact that these same people LIED to them some years earlier. Even someone such as John Stewart has become less critical of the government and his fellow journalists. It astonishes me that someone could be so uncritical of information at one point, then be told they need to be more critical and that people lie, and then continue to be completely uncritical! This is one of those confusing posts that doesn't really have a point, but just something that I need to say.

The fallout from all these problems and peoples misunderstanding of current situations and opinions, is that they get themselves stuck in a rut where the only thing they have to look forward to is the nightly news which will just continue to lie to them and spew misinformation onto its own people. These events will affect the market and make it an inhospitable environment as analysts are using the news to lie to the people and keep them in a state of fear and indecision. They are turning the common investor into a sheep, and preventing the economy from recovering. Let the market run its course, and the companies will be punished accordingly. Instilling fear into people is a good way to increase market volatility over the long term, and can prevent proper healing. Just take a breath and THINK before acting, LISTEN to the information being spat at you, and ASK the questions that matter, not whether or not Brittney will get her kids back from K Fed!

It's almost embarrassing to be considered the typical American that the news makes us feel like. The media is trying to confuse people into thinking the thoughts they had previously didn't really exist. Trying to tell me that I didn't think the way I thought, but instead that I was one of the sheep. STOP FEEDING THEM! You need to start being skeptical of the media and these politicians as they will LIE to you repeatedly in order to keep you off balance and to make you second guess yourself. Don't be fooled any longer and this will end properly, instead of the fairytale ending the government is predicting for itself.