Are we a nation of organized fear-mongering propagandists to maintain the status quo or shall I say, to maintain our “global imperialistic powers” to one day be the “New World Order”? If you hear the American-Neo-Nazi march in the back of your head, ask yourself the following questions that challege the above. If God and Right-wing fascists rule the United States media, then….
- How do you explain this???
- How do you explain this?
- Why is America so bitterly divided?
- Why do the majority of Americans consist of liberals and moderates?
- Why does Bush have the lowest approval rating in recorded history (23%)? (In 2005, it was in the 30’s if I remember correctly?)
- How did Obama become the president?
- Why did Sarah Palin have the lowest approval rating compared to any other running VP in recorded history?
- Why are the conservatives always complaining that our media is controlled by the liberal elite?
Granted, many Americans were brainwashed to believe that there were WMD in Iraq and that the Iraqi government was truly a threat. No doubt about that. Most of us supported Cheney’s invasion from the very beginning for reasons to protect us as a nation rather than a sinister goal to “police the world” as some Americanophobes would suggest all too often.
In the years between 2001 and 2003, most Americans were vulnerable enough to persuade as we had just gotten attacked on 9-11. It was very easy, back in those days, to use the politics of fear to manipulate us into believing that if we didn’t “take care of business in Iraq” that we’d be a target yet again. That explains why 70% of Americans took the bait – in the beginning. Not because 70% of us were violent and just supported the invasion because we love blood, gore, and imperialism as suggested by those western countries that despise us.
But that didn’t last too long. Although not fast enough, information leaked out pretty fast through our press. Progressively, we Americans had come to find out that we went to Iraq under false pretences, hence year by year Bush’s approval rating was found to have been sinking, and sinking and sinking.
Forty-eight percent of our voices didn’t get heard in the 2004 election. That’s one year after we had occupied Iraq.
So, you can definitely say that a good 70% (in 2003) of us from the get-go fell for the scaremongering propaganda. Thanks to the liberal media in the US, we learned the truth thereafter so much as to get even Bush to admit in the end, somewhat indirectly, that we did make a mistake regarding the initial purpose to invade Iraq. And that invasion was organized and orchestrated brilliantly yet sinisterly by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Americanophobes consistently resort to hyperbole to attack the American people. Right-wing propaganda has been replaced by blind nationalists in other countries with their own Right-wing propaganda AGAINST the United States. And just how 70% of us believed that going to war with Iraq was justified, so are many citizens of the west believing so many lies about the American people.
What does this prove? It proves that most of us, out of fear and/or insecurity, believe what we hear if it suits us at the time.
Is this part of human nature? Or is it more part of human nature to question incoming information? We’ll leave that for the cultural anthropologists to answer. In the meantime…
One of my German friends wrote this post on propaganda. It’s worth a read.
The Age of Informational Warfare – Propaganda
What’s my personal opinion? With the exception of talk-radio (aside from NPR), our media is liberal/middle-of-the-road depending on what television station you are listening to in the United States. Our media, as evident here, is the least “controlled” media in the world.
Don’t forget to add to your list, virgo, that Congress also has the lowest the approval rating in American history. In fact, Congress Critters have a lower approval rating than Bush does or ever had in his 8 yrs. They slipped down to 9% once and are still in single digits. Bush doesn’t make Laws like Congress does. Bush doesn’t have control over this Country like Congress does. I can also guarantee you that when the America people finally realize that the obamunist is nothing more than a reheated version of jimma his approval ratings will be very low too and our country will be WORSE off after nobama is done with it! Those who forget history are DOOMED to repeat it.
Don’t worry. My Russian spies and I will be watching Obama very, very carefully.
God bless Russia!!
My thinking is that we are about to go for one hell of a sleigh ride… Down a double black diamond slope. The Russians, along with their compadres will be watching with glee.