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In reply to the discussion: Well, we have one more Senate seat to try to win back [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I agree with you about social brainwashing. Faux News and HateRadio (which is 98% if not 100% right-wing) are the reasons why too many Americans are unbelievably ignorant and just outright stupid. It's a harsh thing to say, but it's backed by evidence that we now see all around us in the form of voting for a political Party that's trying to take every penny they can away from us while protecting the vast wealth of the millionaires and billionaires in this country, and rewarding a political Party with more power in our governments for having done nothing for us with the power they had before. There was a time when political Parties were punished for that behavior by losing power. Now they're rewarded. Does that make sense to anyone??
The lazy culture infesting this country plays right into the hands of skilled propagandists. These people's sole purpose it to keep the 350+ million American people distracted and uninformed so that we're kept divided in order for the top 1% to keep control over us. To them, a united people are a dangerous people to their power and their astronomical wealth.
That's why it doesn't surprise me that the United States holds second place (see chart below) for the most ignorant country in the developed world, according to an Ipsos-MORI study that was conducted last October in 14 countries with 11,527 participants.
Tactical PSYOPS that the wealthy use via propaganda outlets cleverly posing as our 4th Estate news media was launched against the American people when they saw how well it worked in Vietnam (where it was born), and it's been highly successful, effectively lobotomizing a large segment of the American people. Once upon a time, Americans of all colors and creed used to take to the streets and protest injustice-and did it effectively. We'd otherwise not have a civil rights law or weekends off, for example. But now we appear to just sit back and take injustice each and every time - except for minorities like Blacks and Latinos, that is. They still take to the streets against injustice against their own. But then again, they don't listen to HateRadio and they don't watch Faux News.
