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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism and mortality: Death rate soars for middle-aged US workers [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)outside the sanitized version - for years. DU's own Octafish has been my inspiration, rabbi and guide; he's been at it for decades.
The next must read that explains just why it has become so hot in this handcart is David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard." Or as I refer to it, How Allen Dulles created and Nazified the US Intelligence Establishment." They got essentially complete control over foreign policy in all its aspects on 11/22/1963. The coup de grace, getting control of domestic policy, was begun with Zombie King Raygun's election and fundamentally sealed for good with the installation of the Little Chimp.
See:http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/book-review-devils-chessboard-david-talbot
ETA: It'snot so much a matter of people being dumb - though this country has always had a disproportionate population of nitwits because of fundy religion - so much as it is the omnipresence and success of the conditioning techniques. The CIA was hip deep in developing and investigating mind-control techniques as far back as the early 1950s. When a pliant and cooperative media asks to participate in the process of mind-controlling the population, as it has since it turned on Jimmy Carter for the purpose of helping elect Reagan, it assumes a less-obvious, almost subliminal character. This was accelerated by Slick Willie's facilitation of the grotesque media consolidation we now see.
We have been turned into
