01-09-2017, 04:08 PM
I started reading "We The People" and this text sums up where we are at.
Trump supporters have bought into the concocted fantasy by the extreme right wing "news groups" and Trump himself that you can't trust anybody except Trump and other Republicans. College is deluded with false info, the mainstream media is full of dishonest liars and cheats and they just toss there extreme ideas back and forth and end up being even further removed from reality. There in the midst of being manipulated and it's not hard to see if you take a step back and see.
How would you control a mass group of sheep? You discredit every source except a handful that are propping up your message. You dumb them down. This is how Trump gets away with the laundry list of awful things he has said, refusing to show his taxes and so on.
Quote:The journalist Walter Lippmann worried that most citizens are unpre-
pared to play the role democracy assigns them. They live in the real world
but think in an imagined one. “While men are willing to admit that there
are two sides to a question,” Lippmann noted, “they do not believe that
there are two sides to what they regard as fact.”
In a self-governing society, citizens are expected to act on behalf of themselves and others.
But how can they govern themselves if they are out of touch with reality?
Trump supporters have bought into the concocted fantasy by the extreme right wing "news groups" and Trump himself that you can't trust anybody except Trump and other Republicans. College is deluded with false info, the mainstream media is full of dishonest liars and cheats and they just toss there extreme ideas back and forth and end up being even further removed from reality. There in the midst of being manipulated and it's not hard to see if you take a step back and see.
How would you control a mass group of sheep? You discredit every source except a handful that are propping up your message. You dumb them down. This is how Trump gets away with the laundry list of awful things he has said, refusing to show his taxes and so on.
