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Governments that turn authoritarian are obsessively concerned with public response to what they are doing. Right now our government has been purchased/hijacked by corporatists who find our representative/democratic system of government and Constitutional protections inconvenient to the predatory corporate/economic agenda they seek to impose.
The primary goal of any government implementing policies in direct opposition to the will of the people is to manage public opinion and public response so as to reduce the likelihood of pushback and revolt. Millions of us are being pushed into poverty, and our Constitutional protections are being stripped. Of course great attention and money will be poured into managing public opinion; disrupting, diverting, and dispersing gathering places for activists (both 3D and online); and creating the illusion that the people support what is being done to them.
That is why they pour money into a ubiquitous propaganda machine to replace the free press they are systematically dismantling.
Of course they pay attention to us. The propaganda is relentless and ubiquitous and creepily interactive, such that people who believe they are merely having political discussions with others online are immediately and relentlessly countered with corporate talking points and social manipulation/mocking/bullying when they challenge the corporate party line. And this has happened across the internet.
Yes, they pay attention. But the goal is not to listen to us so they can hear and represent us. The One Percent who now own both parties fear one thing, and that is that the country will wake up, realize our power and our numbers, and unite to stop their looting and hijacking of this country and our Constitution. Their goal is to divert, distract, divide, discourage, and disinform, and to prevent activism and pushback. They want to perpetuate the illusion that our representative system is still intact and functioning. Above all, they seek to keep us as quiet and passive as possible while they fundamentally transform this country for their profit and at our expense.
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