This quote says it all:

"If you allow yourself to be seduced into this contrived “reality” pushed by MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WashPost and other toxic media outlets, you are subjecting yourself to toxic mental poisons pushed by Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Jimmy Kimmel and other purveyors of hatred and falsehood."

What he doesn't say is 'turn it off!'.
Just turn the TV off and it will all start coming together so much clearer. It did for me.

By the way, the news aggregator he recommends, http://censored.news/, looks like a clone of this one http://drudgereport.com/.

I know you are talking about mass hypnosis, but I have been hypnotized and while under, I had my wisdom teeth removed without bleeding or pain. In fact, I was aware of everything going on around me. A few years later, I delivered my first under hypnosis... again lacking in blood, pain, and I was up and tending to him in 10 minutes. worked so well, that I routinely use it when I have a headache or can not go to sleep. I have also used acupuncture for minor pain, like when I broke my leg. I do not use pharmaceuticals if they can be avoided, and I find that most of the time (in my case) no store bought medication works better. Plus, I seem to heal quicker than most people. I think this is because I have not interfered with the body's natural responses by slowing the brain's reaction to healing.

I am not saying that I do not recommend doctors or anyone should not take their medications.

Well I guess I've been hypnotized. Grew up on a farm, all we had was family. Everything we ate, we grew. Including animals. Chopin and pickin cotton. Still believe everything my Mother taught me how to be a man. Remember everything my Dad told and showed me to be a man. Remember the preacher hell fire and brimstone, and telling what Christ says about being be a man. I spent 38 years of my life in the military because I believed in the hypnosis that raised me. I believe in God, Family and Country. Nothing and no one will change my beliefs.

Most of what you say is true, but not V****g plays into the hands of the PTB.
Ever read None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen?

There is much more than v****g to do. Wake up others. Support those fighting the fight.

BTW: The Good Guys win in the end. It is written.

Ephesians Ch 6:10 to 6:18 > especially 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of the world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Nevertheless, your line of questioning tags you as trying to undermine our system of v****g in the minds of your audience, wh**ever your stated and actual affiliations. I have my doubts. You are doing a fine job all by yourself.

Most adults have gone through your doubting questions fairly early on, and made a decision to v**e their mind despite the possible difficulties up and down the chain. Most rational people do what they can to support the system and to make it better; and quite obviously some do not.

Further, once you realize that to v**e the man and not the party is often to effectively destroy any chances for a coherent party platform to succeed, as well as your own ideas of what is needed, you then revert to v**e for the closest party and candidates that represent your ideas. This is a system where the majority rules and you want your selected party to be in that majority. Today, that v**e is plainly necessary since the two parties are nearly equal in number, and vastly different in ideology, intent, and even allegiance to our Constitution: a counter v**e is mandatory in this instance. I assume here that the v**er in question has a well-defined agenda he himself supports, and he desires the platform and candidate he v**es for to align with his own agenda in considerable detail. It is apparent, however, that some v**ers have no specific agenda of their own...or an agenda that is off the wall, or even a single issue is all he v**es for.

As for doing research on the candidates, that is a given to the extent you can find reliable information in this era of spin and lies. Most people develop a few well-informed sources whom they trust to help in the whole process. Paying attention to a candidate's promised agenda as he campaigns for office is an excellent guide when the positions stated are very close to your own, or diametrically opposed, and whether you can believe in his success and ability to carry out his promises. This meeting of promises reinforces the necessity for a strong party alignment.

Nothing says you must v**e for someone you believe to be unfit, either, but there are times when you hold your nose and v**e anyway; the gain for the party, and hence your ideas of what is needed, outweighs your objections to a particular candidate. Or, as is sometimes the case, you are v****g against a candidate you do not like for concrete reasons, no matter who the other candidate is ---he must be the better choice! By and large, though, the best results for your ideas to take hold is to v**e for the party candidates you believe in.

By your thinking we live in a r****d semi-democracy where the citizens need not v**e because the outcome is foreordained. Platforms mean nothing; the rhetoric is ambivalent; and power is shared in some hidden process not under v**er control; not a government of, for and by the people. That is the antithesis of Constitutional government. Further, we would be helpless to change how things work, and my liturgy of ills I stated before will remain. As it stands, all I do have is one little v**e now and then to try to change things, and even if 75% of the e*****rate v**ed as I do, it would make no real difference.

I will remain true to my belief in our republic and I will v**e for what I believe is right. You are welcome to your lack of faith; I choose to be with, by and for the people; and with the Constitution.

On v****g: as a Conservative I tend to follow the Republican party line as it is the best bet to realize my objectives. It is virtually impossible for me to properly vet an individual candidate all by myself, especially when the noise from the opposition drowns out other voices. My faith in the v****g process grows as the v**er margin for my candidates grow; and it suffers when the margin is razor thin.

On government, it is again my Conservatism that bemoans the outsized bureaucracy, the Progressive and Liberal damage done; the real decrease in Freedom and Liberty that has t***spired; the irrational attacks on Christianity and the Constitution, the Moral Relativity of Liberals and Progressives; the entire idea of M**************m and Diversity; the Ruination of our schools and the Minds of our Children; the Tax and Spend predilection of Democrats; the downsizing of our Military; the Obstructionism of Democrats against fixing real problems in an effective way; the real push to marginalize the Family as the Main building block of our society; the use of Alinsky/Gramsci/Cloward-Piven trilogy to undermine our society and prepare the way for a Socialist or Marxist/C*******tic takeover; the Penetration of Islam into the Nation with it growing threats of Sharia; I could go on for a long time. When a candidate seems to stand up strongly against these devastating ills, he gets my v**e.