Reply #46: It's The Big Stick vs The Big Lie, problem is people don't like to admit their perceptions....

[Echo In Light]

...by and large are not their own ... that their mindset and worldview is shaped by scores of various, agenda-setting rhetoric and propaganda of vested interests who seek to limit "democratic interference."

To acknowledge that is too unnerving for many as it removes the macho affectations of the so-called rugged individualism that many Americans fancy themselves as encompassing - when the reality is, most of the groundwork for our perceptions comes from external sources w/ulterior motives.

This is the biggest obstacle for people overcoming the tyranny we face: too many have been brainwashed into not being able to appreciate their imprisonment, and the various divide and rule machinations used to effective result, and will - as seen even here at DU time and again - vehemently attack those who fly this flag as being wingnuts/delusional/conspiracy theorists.

That's much easier than examining how their belief systems are built on empty rhetoric in a world which contains countless examples to the contrary.