Are you kidding me? We have two political parties in the USA with very powerful propaganda arms designed to tell people exactly what to think. They use half-truths, flawed statistics, and exaggerations. These lies are not difficult to refute, yet people willingly accept the lies just because they're so willing to gravitate to the political echo chambers that are Fox News and MSNBC, among others. In a republic, if a representative is able to control what his/her constituents think, he has essentially become dictator-by-deception. Thought control is here, it's just that people have become willing recipients of the propaganda.
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Are you kidding me? We have two political parties in the USA with very powerful propaganda arms designed to tell people exactly what to think. They use half-truths, flawed statistics, and exaggerations. These lies are not difficult to refute, yet people willingly accept the lies just because they're so willing to gravitate to the political echo chambers that are Fox News and MSNBC, among others. In a republic, if a representative is able to control what his/her constituents think, he has essentially become dictator-by-deception. Thought control is here, it's just that people have become willing recipients of the propaganda.