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In reply to the discussion: Reading between the lines, the government is preparing for doomsday. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)But in my years and years of activism, I learned most people are stoopid.
When friends and I would canvass a neighborhood, to give out brochures that showed the harmful effects on their children of using the over-the -counter pesticides to blanket yards and gardens, people would hand them back and say, "I have to have a nice looking yard - my children will just have to suck it up."
We learned it was more effective to tell people the stuff was killing their cats and dogs than to talk about the harm it was doing to their kids! If that is not very very sad, I don't know what is.
Then when the MTBE issue came about (MTBE being the toxin added to Calif's gasoline) -- I studied the way the Mainstream Media handled the issue. What I found out inspired me to put it all down in detail and post it here and on various website. The article is still up over at DailyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/06/22/540267/-The-TRUTH-Versus-the-Mainstream-Media
Remember the quote William Casey made, to a band of new CIA recruits right after he was appointed to that agency? It went along the lines of "Within a decade or two, everything the American people believe will be false." That mission has been accomplished in spades.