Quote Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity
propaganda has little to do with the sensational, it is most influential when it steadily drills into the public the fundaments of an agenda until people begin to believe in that agenda without question. by harping on those few things wrong with the workings of capitalism, the media has convinced a majority of the population that the entire system is at fault and has handed us the socialist ideology of the ivory tower left as our only salvation. with that ideology they also handed us our next president.

the desperate attempts by his opponents that you have pointed out were never enough to stem that tide of propaganda and even those were ladled out in such a fashion as to appear ludicrous. the anti-war machine has painted the democratic party as the great opponent of our foolhardy venture into iraq, even though they too profit from each bloodbath, and the republicans as blood crazed fiends, intent only on the accumulation of power through the force of arms. the media has given us our imminent ecological and social demise, blaming both on the uncaring greed of those evil corporations. while showing us the altruistic motives of a liberal establishment, intent on spreading the nations riches and forcing harsh penalties and restrictions on business; they have also given us the conservative faction as the henchmen of a callous capitalist empire, whose only goal is wealth at the expense of nature and the poor. if you cannot see the intent in all this, then i fear you have already become one of the true believers that these streams of information were made to create.

the intent of this propaganda is not merely the election of some temporary political animal, but the promotion of an entire ideology that runs contrary to the goals of this country as a whole and is designed to limit the freedoms of its people as individuals. it is another attempt to end this experiment in individual liberty and replace it with the outmoded concept of each man as just another member of the complacent herd. seldom is any mention ever made of the inherent corruption of the massive bureaucracy needed to control such a herd, that might give us a glimmer of the truth behind the rhetoric of change.
What, exactly, are the goals of this country? I'll bet you ten bucks my goals are vastly different from yours.