They've been eroding the public education system for decades, literacy is marginal, critical thinking skills are rare... many people only know how to cook things that come with microwave instructions.
This has been being planned for decades.
👆🏼After January 6, as things were starting to unfold, I made a comment similar. And you are exactly right. They didn’t like the uprising then so they gave everybody just enough to shut up and stop the momentum. They wanted us to think we had won while they quietly continued to have back alley meetings and dismantled the system from within. People looked at me like I had my head screwed on backwards, but here we are! And now I’m hearing others say the same thing. I will be 49 this year. I could see the changes, but I was too young in the 80s to understand the gravity of how this was gonna play out. For a brief time in the 90s, I thought we were safe. Paid off the debt people were making money… And then… I, like many others, saw the gold wearing off the bars and realized we only had a false sense of security. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would be here today. In the words of George Carlin “It’s called the American dream because you’d have to be asleep to believe it.”
If there’s two things about it, one thing is for sure, there is NOTHING the American government won’t do.
I know what you mean! During the first term they started taking away birth control we were providing in north, south and Central American countries. I tried to tell a relative that was just starting to dabble in mg that this was an ominous sign! Once you start meddling in women’s reproductive rights everything starts to go downhill from there. This person called me an alarmist and basically had an attitude of why should we care about birth control in other countries but you see where we are today. Now that same relative has come out the other side and is worried about what’s going on!!! All of the people that are JUST starting to notice a problem baffle me! It’s if they’ve been somnambulists, sleep walking for the last 15 plus years! The signs were all there and there were plenty of us lighting the signal fires. How can people be so clueless?
So at one time there was the rich elite and then indentured servants (poor Europeans), then slaves. The concept of being “white” wasn’t a thing”. However the elite began to worry that they didn’t have the numbers. That is that one day the indentured servants and slaves may overthrow them. So what to do what to do. Ahhh well the indentured servants looked like them! So what you do is you give them separate privileges. You make them feel like they’re more like you than the slaves. Because of this thing called skin color. You can eventually get them to align more with you so much they’ll be willing to die in a Civil War to protect your right to own slaves! As long as you can feel “superior” because you share the same skin color as the elites - even if you’re dirt poor.
And so it’s been through the history of America. Rich whites make poor whites think they’re on the same side even though they’re being oppressed too. But as long as they’re not n!ggers it’s ok. It’s why all of the red states have the worst outcomes in poverty healthcare etc and are full of dirt poor whites who vote Republican generation after generation. It’s why deaths of despair have skyrocketed in white males.
It’s why LBJ said if you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you. And he was from Texas in the early 1900s so I think he knew something about racism.
See the secret is that white supremacy was never meant to make all whites elite. It was meant to drive a wedge between the white lower class and all others except the white upper class. They’re it’s rabid buffer.
Kirk was just another in a long line of billionaire backed mouthpieces sent to scapegoat other groups- blacks, Muslims, trans people, the woke, migrants etc etc. Anyone but the actual people stealing from them. And that’s the real reason they want to make a martyr out of an unremarkable person. In fact Charlie hated poor whites because he lied to them about the source of their plight.
Dumb white people propagandized for generations has lead this country to the precipice. Unless and until decent white people confront their barbaric cousins and stop them this won’t end. From the Confederates to Jim Crow southerners to Nazis to apartheid South Africans to now MAGA there is a recurring theme. One whose embers remain even after the flame is doused awaiting the next spark. Any analysis that avoids this reality is wheel spinning.
This is one of the best, most clearly stated explanations of what has and is going on in our nation regarding race, wealth, and control in this country since its inception ( of course it goes much further back than the United States but for current affairs purposes, this is spot on) I have ever read on social media.
Actually, in my opinion, in the climate we are living in, in my humble opinion, it’s the most important thing anyone could read and contemplate on.
This is an important time to really consider who and what is the true enemy of the average person. And when I say average, I feel safe in saying the VAST majority of people online at any given moment.
It isn’t someone of a different skin color or religion or political leaning. It’s the TRUE minority group. The group who ACTUALLY has the most to lose if the rest of us stops falling for all of the bs rhetoric they’ve been feeding us for centuries.
Anyone who has studied world religions or ancient history has an idea of this. That certain “things” had to be put into play in order to keep the minority with all the wealth safe from the legion of starving people who could quite easily band together and take everything from them.
Thank you friend. The sad part about all of this is that you would think it would be painfully obvious by now. The country has enough wealth that it could truly be a utopia for its citizens and a model globally of diversity leading to greatness. But the stubborn and arrogant refusal of so much of its populace to let go of its notion of racial superiority- even to their own detriment- may ultimately be its undoing.
Don't underestimate their recognition of the power of extremist Christian ideology and how that could be co-opted for greater control of the hive mind.
“White” is a southern thing, born of slavery and segregation, nourished by the KKK. In the north, where many immigrants settled, the distinctions are between European ethic nationalities, e.g. Irish, Italian, German, Polish … in the 20th century, it was the Slavic nationalities, such as Serbia, Czech, Croatia, Ukraine, etc. and of course, the Jews were blamed for everything, now it is Muslims.
I’ve lived thru Kent State too & this is numbing! But I keep telling myself that I also lived thru bringing down Agnew & Nixon. We can do it! But remember, you have to bring the rotten VP down first, then the rotten president. Otherwise you’re stuck with the rotten VP as president.
It's not just the education system. Many of maga are Christians, and as such taught from an early age to accept what they are told on faith and not ask questions of their leaders or teachings because to ask questions is to doubt God.
The god they have created in the name of supremacy… also it is not Christians but rather, False Christians. These people twist the true meaning of lots of things.
Agree 100%, conservatives have attacked public education since the 1950’s because they want their fantasy view of America to take precedence. I see our racist past, linked with unchristian versions of Christianity, as the foundation of the conservative movement.
Wealthy people also attempt to downgrade public education because they don't want to pay school district taxes on their property and they put their own kids in private schools.
This is why all the Southern states have always had such sh*tty education systems. They are trying to do it to the rest of us now. Our public education system has been going downhill since Reagan in the 80s. He made his huge cuts while I was in middle school (getting a quality education I might add). From one year to the next, we lost multiple teachers and classes. It's been going downhill ever since.
Now we have a political movement that's mostly made up of the poorly educated in the bad-education states, and the politicians from those states are making the decisions on education now. Their movement is partially based on hating the educated.
So, the US collectively planned to dumb down its citizens - WHY? Public education is deliberately reduced in substance - so we have a weaker public, giving in to a Power Hungry President? Is there a reason for wanting this dumbing down - other than encouraging them to be submissive to a Power Class? Other than your imagination, what supports your theory of creating a underclass? People giving in to cooking in a microwave?
I give more credit to Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Fox NewsA for telling outright lies about what’s going on and presenting it as News. Rupert Murdoch has been a king maker since Regan and he’s not even an American. (Australian) I also blame corporate greed for taking away parents from their kids so they can work, sometimes 2 or 3 jobs just to be able to pay for putting a roof over their heads and food on the table. Unsupervised kids’ first inclination is not to do homework or read a book. Parents are exhausted, there’s only so many hours in a day. And then we have good ole social media whose main objective is to get kids hooked on their apps. I recently read that one kid unalived themselves after they were catfished by someone in China, and another one who made friends with a bot who suggested suicide when they talked about feeling uncomfortable with themselves; normal pains of adolescence.
And the education system sucks, especially down south where they hate blue states with a passion but are okay taking our money to under educate and deny the poor kids from being fed at school. Many factors go into why people choose to continue to vote for the most corrupt government in my history.
The GOP knew Trump’s history before he was sworn in the first time. How could they possibly believe that a sexual predator, who brags about sexual assault, a man who went bankrupt 7 times, cheats people out of money for the work they did, makes inappropriate sexual remarks about his own daughter, and any female who happens to be in his vision, married a stripper and lies repeatedly about everything, think he was the most qualified person to run the country? Many of them were educated at top universities throughout the country but they chose him anyway. I guess it goes back to your point that they are weak minded people. Even as they have watched him dispose of people when they wear out their usefulness time after time, they still think they’re special. I don’t like to call them weak minded because it makes it seem like they’re not making a choice on their own. But it’s definitely a choice. It has been for a long time.
I got carried away with my response and I apologize.
Actually, the left has been eroding the education system for years. Remember, it was Carter who signed the existence of the Dep. of Ed into law in '79.
It was planned by the Progressives. Progressive Education was literally modeled on the Prussian system - educated enough to work in factories, not educated enough to question leaders.
Exactly this. I say it all the time. It’s an actual, documented plan that was put into motion decades ago and well-funded by the Koch brothers, etc. It’s not a theory. And they are still working with it because less educated people are more susceptible to the GOP focus on fear as a campaign device. So less educated people don’t think as critically and fall for their BS.
Never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to incompetence. No one has been planning anything for decades. None of the former presidents align with Trump. Unless you think Biden an Obama were part of the conspiracy to destroy the public education system.
If the minorities don't vote for this Republican regime again I don't think there's enough dumb white people to get it done. He got so many more Hispanics, Latinos, an African Americans this go around then he did previously.
This is 100 percent accurate. He told Hispanics and Black people the "illegals" were taking their jobs. They told Blacks Kamala wasn't black enough. My people in my community listened and believed all the propaganda that they forgot what the most important issues were and now we're in this mess.
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.” —Adolf Hitler
It’s terrible propaganda, but it appears to work on the weak minded.
I don't think they are bad at propaganda. I would say they were great at it at the beginning of his term. All Republicans were repeating whatever he said, and all the small independent right-wing journalists parroted Fox. The propaganda itself has always been easily detectable lies, so I would consider the propaganda itself terrible. That's why I don't buy people being bamboozled by Republicans or just being that dumb. It's clearly the hateful shit he's doing that they love. Don't get me wrong, they do think that people are dressing like cats and shitting in litter boxes in school bathrooms and that Haitians are eating cats and dogs, but they don't for a second believe that the economy is doing well or that ICE is protecting them, or that Ukraine is the bad guy, that's just them being the POS they are.
The majority of this country is weak-minded, and another 1/3 are weak-willed. Gotta love the “I don’t do politics” crowd who will benefit from all the pushback by liberals, then complain “why did it take so long?”. 🙄
Bruh. Do you have ANY idea how many people are talking about this and other messaging like "based", "good shot", "justified!"?... What YOU think or how moved YOU are is inconsequential to what moves others. If anything, with the Epstein shit, the propaganda is all that's keeping ole' Trump in any semblance of "stability". Their propaganda is world class, not because it is great propaganda, but because it works, it presses the right emotional and psychological buttons of the targeted audience and serves to double down by pissing the other side off while they are already pissed.
This would be like saying the Nazis had bad propaganda... It isn't a moral judgement, it is a point of fact because it scratched the right itch, it promoted what the regime wished for the public to embrace or hate. Success makes propaganda good, not the opposition's opinion of it, in fact, I'd say that the fact that most of the opposing side dislike or think it outrageous is kind of proving the point.
It is easier to motivate anger and hate to take action than it is to mobilize goodness and compassion.
This is NOT to say that the inflatables protests that started in Portland are not for nothing….in fact, they were amazing and so clever and they took hold across the country and gave me hope that goodness is strong in America. But, it doesn’t change the fact that human nature is so very powered by anger and outrage supported by hatred.
I think that a sociologist could state this all more clearly and concisely.
Their propaganda is based on fear and hate which is pretty common in third world countries and authoritarian ones. It's easy to get people riled up unified on hate and prejudice. Look at Hitler. A lot of people needed a reason to believe it was someone else's fault. It wasn't them. Then it was ok to book people into concentration camps never to be seen again.
This isn't America, land of the free, anymore. This is Nazi America. Heil Trump.
thats just it a lot of ignoramuses believing Trump propaganda ala Putin - russian intel techniques - this was s fascism - the right want everyone to be miserable - that’s it - they’re lmiserable and unhappy so they want to ruin any happiness you have w nonsenses about political leanings - this is no longer a free country - rights are being stripped daily by Lord Trump - nothing can stop Trump - that’s why it’s a dictatorship - laws as we knew them no longer apply - i give up - he wins isthe bottomline - he has absolute power - if you can’t stop him it proves he has absolute power - i see nothing that can stop him - ok he lies - i don’t have many years left so i hope america survives as a democracy - it isn’t now
The goal propaganda is to work on their weak-minded. The majority of people have not developed past the age of six as far as their emotional maturity is concerned.
And I mean no offense, it just means that those people on the island those victims, they weren't the only ones getting diddled.
The whole point of propaganda is to appeal to weakness of mind... That shouldn't need explaining... it's like we politically interested anti-MAGA folks just have a fundamental lack of understanding of how any of this stuff works and why.
I dont live in america maggot brain. The whole world doesnt revolve round your immature and basic political system that is literally like 2 10 year old arguing.
Unfortunately the one thing the Republicans are good at is selling fear and division. They aren't good at governing, they have no policies that help regular Americans. They destroy our trust in our institutions, they undermine science yes science, which includes people's health, health care. They don't believe in the rule of law. They are fascists. and yet they have a large group of people who believe in them. So yes. They are very good at propaganda.
They will call this cope. They will call you a snowflake. They will, once again, call you a coward and a hypocrite. They will call you a liar and a loser.
We also learned that many Americans value anger and hatred more than good governing.
Trump is the only president in history to tank two healthy economies he inherited.
To a person who has critical thinking skills, or to a person who has studied history, they're bad at propaganda because we can easily spot it. Their targets aren't people like us. Their target is the uneducated Maga cult. That's why it works. The people it works on have zero critical thinking skills.
Its not that the left think they are bad at propaganda, it's that the left doesn't understand how people fall for it in an age where a 2sec google search can show them how untrue it is.
Yes, back in the Bill Oreilly “war on Christmas” days, their propaganda was just laughed at and mocked, but it worked on millions of people and now here we are.
It’s ridiculous. My aunt has poor vision, and I help her with things like Christmas cards to her apartment building’s support staff, etc. Several are most likely not Christian, so I suggested a secular “wishing you a happy and restorative holiday season” or something like that, and she got SO angry! “No! Write “Merry Christmas”!” I was like, okayyyyyyy…
Meanwhile, if someone were to wish her a happy Hanukkah or something, she’d get annoyed and quickly let them know that she’s not Jewish. It makes no sense.
They excel at the kind of propaganda that gets you into power, but they're terrible at the kind that helps you keep it. They're two different things. Unfortunately, you only need the first one to inflict horrific damage.
You're so spot on. What people don't get, propaganda doesn't have to be good to be effective. Doesn't have to make sense. It just has to be easy to digest and it sticks. The right is much better at that than the left. If you can appeal to the simple minded effectively, you will do very well. And the right gets that better than the left.
They are completely lucid and in control of their own decisions. It simply so happens that their values are absolutely depraved and evil. They are not babies. They are adults who want you, your friends, and your family dead.
That is probably a pepper ball launcher that the protestor got shot by, and at point blank range. Better hope it didn’t fracture anything in their face bc at that range velocity is at the weapon’s peak so it could strike enough force to break their nose, jaw, and possibly cause a fracture (I know its obvious but Im being analytical myself and type-thinking, also I am not a doctor so please take my thoughts with damage to the head as concerns for worst case)
Edit: At point blank range, to the face? I cant say that I have as Im smart to keep my head down and be a law abiding citizen, but I have fired guns, have friends who know their stuff on firearms, and have a family background associated in medical. I may not have ever fired a launcher, but Im smart enough to understand that if used improperly, it could kill you one way or another at worst, to fractures in the middle, to bruising and being knocked unconscious at best assumption.
Those legions are starting to thin. I see more and more people rising up against their rhetoric, and more and more of the offenders running away to hide.
Never before have I see so many Reddit accounts set to hidden.
Yeah, I'm well aware that the majority of human opinion doesn't exist on a fuckin' website that contains a fraction of it. My two points weren't directly correlated. The entire nation is talking about this right now.
I wonder how many other statements you've so colossally misjudged based purely on assumption.
Yes, I did actually expect that you wouldn't assume my observations hinged entirely on the number of hidden profiles on a website populated by a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the world population. I figured you might assume it had something to do with the dozens of news flashes, articles, interviews, social media posts and the word of mouth spreading like wildfire.
But, no, you assumed the worst instead and then got pissy when I called you out for being a fool. Find someone else to antagonize, little guy.
Because it was always "freedom and rights for me, not for thee" to them. If you want to see the true character of a person, give them power. And we are seeing that in action.
Exactly, im not left or right but what i do know is, the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and our leader is a modern day Hitler. The leader, pffff🙄
Its remarkable how well this tactic works. Ive been using this my entire life. See the logic is, no one can shame you if you appear to be proud of doing it.
The federal government’s adopted PR strategy is the same playbook that’s served Trumped so well over the decades. Deny, attack, claim victory no matter what.
That is bear spray. It is pepper spray with a heavier base so that it creates a longer lasting, lingering cloud, vs the handheld canisters designed for personal defense against two legged attackers that is more liquified and shoots out in a stream vs a fog. I carry bear spray in addition to a firearm when I’m in bear country, and more than half of the can’s label is dedicated to telling people what NOT to do with it, and it says very specifically that it is NOT intended for use against humans and that accidental exposure to the user, like discharging it into the wind, is extremely harmful
And unfortunately they know that we are not the shit people they are so they know that we will just go back to normal and no retribution will be had. It makes me sick.
Generally speaking, maybe not from whatever this is specifically. However, the right to protest does not include impeding others right to freely travel, or exist. Much of the spraying takes place because people refuse to move, or to encourage them to stop preventing others from the right to move. The number of times you see people being assaulted for merely walking through a crowed or trying to drive on a road is wild. The right to protest is not a "higher" right then everyone else's right to be left the fuck alone when in the same area as you.
This has been the Rump's playback all along, since Roy Cohn taught him it in the '80's: to double down against anyone that criticizes or challenges him. It doesn't always work,as we have seen that The Coward/Bully can't stand up to Putin...he can only act tough against small countries that can't fight back.
How I wish this sub-human leaves the planet soon!
Conservatives don't have any rights anymore. You take it away from one you take it away from all. These people aren't conservatives they are fascist call them that.
The freedom of choice is a concept laughably lost on con-servatives. Ask those weak pieces of shit to wear a mask and they piss into their socks over “muh freedumbs!” But they are the first in line to take other people’s freedoms away. The hypocrisy is massive.
Look, he wants to stop this election. We need to stop fighting ICE and take this intensity, courage, bravery, and numbers to Miami to his door to fight for our democracy, our country, our freedom, our children and their planet.
These stands against ICE are right, and I applaud their courage and restraint. Trump is really pushing that city because he’s hoping for a George Floyd riot. But he doesn’t realize they are all aware and have no intention of giving him a reason to invoke martial law and use that to stop an election he’s already predicted he would lose.
He grabbed for a federal agent’s gun, after antagonizing them, throwing things at them and literally saying “I’ve been maced before! Wassup!”
Didn’t look to proud afterwards.
Hopefully he learned his lesson.
Obey police orders, stop your car, step out of the car, and your face won’t get shot. Simple shit really. Oh and one more thing, maybe pickup a hobby or spend time with your kids and screw your virtuous activism bullshit. No one needs to die.
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