Book review: ‘The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth’

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6. They know what's going on, and so long as they believe they benefit from it, and there is no real

alternative, a large percentage -- a hard core, perhaps 30 percent --supports practically anything that the national leadership does. Even when it's obviously against most of their own self-interest, such as cuts to Social Security. The captive corporate press is a force-multiplier, and can make that 30 percent look like 60 percent within 48 hours and 90 percent if given six months to "prep the battlefield."

But, it all comes down to the hard core 30 percent -- 5 percent conservative rich people running this system protected by the 25 percent flag waiving, heavily-armed true-believers -- the fact that the majority who don't agree with this system do nothing to directly challenge it is understandable, because it can get you fired, it can get you killed.