Are You Dumber than an American?

[BlueCaliDem]

108. Yes, actually I *have* seen commercials in the other countries of the world. Lived in some of.

them, too. But when I mention marketing, I wasn't referring to commercial goods. I was referring to political marketing.

As pertaining to the news and unlike the United States extinct 4th Estate, there is a real journalism still alive and well in those countries despite Murdoch's buying up magazines in the UK. That's why the people won't let the government take away their universal health care coverage, and laugh at us here in the states.

In the United States, corporate media filter and frame the news for broad American brainwashing. There's a reason why half of the country doesn't believe in universal health care or caring for the vulnerable among us. That's why we still have slave-wages (minimum wage instead of living wage), and that's why it's a-okay for powerful people to avoid prison time for stealing billions in fraudulent-but-made-legal trades, whereas people with a baggie of weed are locked up and get a lifetime prison record to hamper the rest of their lives.