I simply cannot believe that in the United States of America...

[Codifer]

49. Easy.

Set up a system of propaganda AM radio available to rural areas. Nurture the ember of hatred innate to everyone. Fan that into flame with freaking rush limbaugh government bitching and badmouthing. Feed the marks a constant stream of fear and lies. Tell them their wives and daughters will be raped by (insert group name here, commies, minorities, democrats ..... what ever) and their jobs and homes and farms will be taken by an evil state and given to someone with a deeper tan.

Keep up this barrage for fifty years and preach it on Sunday too.

Then you can tell them who to focus their hate on. They will then fight your enemies for you. You will own them. For you they will sacrifice themselves in battle against "gummint" and destroy programs that were designed to benefit themselves; programs that were the result of long struggles and bitter combat against company thugs and ignorant militias and paid for pocketed politicians and greedy asshats.

Then you will have won.... something. For a while.

edit to add: Zombies. Or at the carnival; rubes.