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(32,139 posts)every one of us should be outraged.
It is creepy to live in a propaganda state. These are tactics associated with totalitarian governments. They have no place in a country that purports to be a representative democratic system of government.
And we certainly pay for it.
The relationship of the people to the US government has been fundamentally changed, and in a profound way. Perhaps we have not lived in a free country for some time now, but they have destroyed any remaining illusion of our real relationship to this government most of us were taught to believe was our own.
These are the tactics of a totalitarian state manipulating and exploiting its own people, not something any of us should have to associate with the United States of America.