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Because the truth is only available in small non-lethal doses. Vietnam was never winnable in any non-Armageddon scenario, but that main was suppressed from the American public- enough- to let the Pentagon and WH bull ahead anyway for other reasons. Fair-org went from mere fact checking to the presentation of the news to the systemic curse of any corporate or government run news media. That is tough to follow. Most people only hear the 85% news reports(only in the American MSM) that call global warning a "theory" when all science reports in unison it is an occurring fact. Many many fewer, even of the scientists, understand how and why such media so bend the truth away from the majority mind. Most of your news "choices"(little exercised) lead to deception. The "victory" of majority control over power and money gives a minority a perverse appearance of choice and democracy instead of truth and democracy under constant attack.
In fact, facts are generally out there and in general the odor from the swamp does afflict the American majority with unpleasant truths no cheerleading press can deodorize. Many who remember when the facts burble up out of the swamp know that they could be known, but the overmind of the busy, pleasure diverted nation always is shut down on the six o'clock news and the pablum press.
As in all issues, most people cling to instinct and sanity and goodwill. Even the fact that the majority of Americans gave both Gore(especially Gore, according to tiny news reporting Gore is the president elect) and Kerry the legitimate victory. EVEN if one trusts corporate news and the election count that night Kerry damaged the mandate of this "wartime" hero president irrevocably. But that is another fact, along with massive vote tampering and fraud that squeaks in the night.
Most people don't hear or long remember those squeaks, those flurries of genuine outrage based on genuine facts. There is no recourse or accountability for truth until it makes it to long messy court cases, and even then, those receive less glitzy coverage than a single downhill skier.
Quantity, quality, natural and purposeful slant conspire organically to follow the engine of deception and still crap is crap is crap and most people- unable to discuss, unable to hear, unable to think under this daily suppressive fire, are discontent and fire back that discontent in raw off target decent instincts. But in the test one sees a huge chunk, smaller than the biblical third of the damned, who support glittering lies and the glamor of evil, substituting hypocritical puritanical sexual morality for real moral spirit. because the people do not become a majority in support of the lies the incompetence and madness of the crimes has risen from comic opera to an impossible black hole.
the people want and would settle for so many compromises but none are given in the war upon their freedom and well-being necessary to control their loyalty to what is right and true.
In the end, there is that question that runs counter to the wisdom of those who explained the success of the Nazis and other RW extremists. That the people must be poor, unemployed, afflicted, wounded in pride and despairing of hope in their government. Propaganda feeds on that. The single source propaganda controlled by the state has to be monolithic.
We have no excuses for what has been allowed, none. But because our way of life fits this RW dream machine as well as Communism(a workers' revolt) fit an agrarian, poorly industrialized feudal society, the oppression of reality to support revolution must become mad, insane, incompetent and ultimately a disaster like the rejection of an incompatible heart.
No, in all societies the wisdom of our own revolutionary forebears who foreswore the topdown imposition
of power, applies to the vulnerability of the masses. Against ruthless power they will bend and rationalize and compromise to live out their daily lives in a dysfunctional civil society until the situation becomes intolerable enough for enough people to unite as they should have done earlier in bloodless prevention. Disinformation that shifts constantly in entertaining dances of the seven veils keeps the small citizen from correctly identifying the big problem which is not enough to fit into a sound byte until it becomes cartoonishly apparent. Comfort and small perspective in the small lives against the white noise of deception, the fading of suppressed alarms. Divisions professionally inculcated by a minority who know how to use the worst of humankind's failings because they themselves are the very worst of our species.
And to inveigh against the victims, the spoiled, naive, hate infected, easily tricked, materialistic dwellers in earthly paradise, simplistic adherents of enthusiastic cults, is again a minor theme in the dark symphony kept playing to keep us sidetracked, powerless, divided and guilty and still following the conductor in the overall unity of control.
The darkness of ten thousand years can be distilled in any one country at any one time. We have seen the light of the new century and fallen back into the "normalcies" of history, wondering why, feeling cheated and a failure. We have no excuses now and both the people and the future resist this recurring, glittering lie. It will not succeed as it has in the past, but it can cause all the physical harm and the eventual destruction of any brute tyranny of that obsolete past. A rock smashing glass is still a rock. But we don't have to all cheer the thugs in unison anymore.
People aren't that bad, nations aren't that great, people aren't that hot. The earthly paradise we are "lucky to have in this great nation" is a dangerous emotional delusion any anxious mammal would cling to. The worst of us know that full well and that is how they lead. The wise give people unpleasant truths and controls they dislike. Naive pride and trust gives people tryannies leading to painful rebellion or escalating woes. Justly punishing the perps would be number one. Exercising constant vigilance and unglamourous democratic duties by the citizenry is required- today, for mere survival.
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