Bad for America?

[PatrickforB]

32. It IS a clown show, for sure.

We must never underestimate the purposive brainwashing of the American electorate, though. Since Powell's Manifesto in 1971 to the US Chamber, and Reagan killing the Fairness Doctrine, which was designed to prevent demagogues like Trump from rising to power, we have had massive corporate propaganda that has essentially dumbed down, and brainwashed a huge segment of Americans.

I know you know this, but people really ARE fully capable of very high level reasoning. Just listen to a sports call in talk show and you'll see how very sophisticated people are...until someone mentions politics.

Most Americans really ARE aware what dirtbags these Republicans actually are, but they still persist in voting Republican. Why? It is this phenomenon our messaging must address.

Rich people really don't need government. They can take care of themselves quite effectively. It is the poor and middle class who need government. We desperately need a government that functions.

When Reagan said that government was not the solution but the problem, he began a systematic chipping away of our trust in the institution of government - our belief in a government of, by and for the people. We don't really have that now, do we? We have a government of, by and for billionaires and corporations. Look at our tax codes. Look at this year's $858 billion war budget. Where is our healthcare? Where is our expanded Social Security? Where is the affordable debt-free college for our children and grandchildren?

While it is great for the country to see the Republican disgustingness and amorality close up, we have to figure out how to message more effectively to break through the hard-core 'ignorant and proud of it' mentality of too many Americans.