As Murdoch’s News Corp. discovered first in Australia, then in Britain, and now in America, the rewards of controlling the policies of powerful federal government regulatory and administrative agencies are immense.

No wonder that people like Rupert Murdoch have obviously decided that any and all means must be used by his media to maintain this control.

Murdoch, and others like him, need an instrument to allow them to garner the necessary votes at election time, from people who have no material interest in supporting their policies. That instrument is the culture war – with this weapon, they have won the last two Presidential elections for Bush/Cheney and Co.

Ironically, their charged-up rabble is now demanding more – such as control over conservative press organs. That explains how Christopher Buckley could be so quickly thrown overboard by the National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father, William Buckley, for his “mavericky” decision to back Obama for President.

The rabble is even demanding slots on the Republican Party’s national election ticket – the equivalent of a place at the conservatives’ private dinner table. This is the background from which the candidacy of Sarah Palin for Vice President of the USA emerged.

With the incessant culture wars has come the complete breakdown in the ability of our political representatives to conduct discourse and dialog with citizens of differing political views.

That breakdown has been most pronounced among the career pundits (hired hands, and well-paid cheerleaders, actually) employed by the right-wing media, people such as O’Reilly (of Murdoch’s Fox News), Hannity (originally of Fox News, now also of May’s Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), and Limbaugh (of Clear Channel Communications, Inc., and recently on Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal). These are the people charged with waging this culture war on a daily basis.

Anyone willing to spend an evening in front of their TV observing this phenomenon on the Fox News Channel will realize how complete the breakdown of discourse and dialog in our society has become.

Today, no one wishing to think objectively or independently can consider him- or herself safe from attack and destruction by these power-obsessed culture warriors, as the Christopher Buckley case sadly proves.

This process, however, contains the seeds of its own destruction. Just as nonexistent regulation led to the meltdown of our financial system, the never ending ranting and ravings of Fox News and Clear Channel pundits has resulted in a meltdown of their influence.

These past months have proven that huge numbers of people, previously under the sway of Fox News, now understand they have to discount, even completely ignore, what they are being told to believe on Murdoch’s Fox News Channel!

This represents nothing less that the beginning of the end of the culture war era of US politics!

McCain, Palin, Murdoch, Mays, O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc., are working themselves into a frenzy, spewing their negative messages out over the airwaves 24/7. But Americans have had it with this negativity, with the fear campaigns, with the policies for the few, sold by Fox/Clear Channel to the many.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 4th, we will have the great democratic privilege to put an end to this sickening era of Rove-style ploys, stunts, slime, sleazy robocalls, racial hatred, inciting of violence, and culture wars.

But – we must go to the trouble of actually voting! So, citizens, please vote early, or plan and allocate enough time to vote on Election Day, Tues., Nov. 4th!

Remember – we need a massive turnout of citizens, and a landslide victory, because we know the Republicans will again try to steal this election at the polling stations, just like in 2000 and 2004.

And starting Nov. 5th, we can begin the hard work of repairing the immense damage these thieves and scoundrels, among them Rupert Murdoch and the Mays family, have done to our country and our people.

People, find the strength and courage to vote Obama/Biden into office, and return honesty, decency, and integrity to American politics! Vote tomorrow for Obama/Biden!