the American people are simultaneously the most propagandized people on earth, and yet believe themselves to be more immune to propaganda than any other group of people on earth. This monumental achievement of tyranny over the people can be attributed to the privatization of media. By making sure media is packaged under several different "brand names" like Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, AT&T, Viacom, CBS, Walt Disney, etc. it ensures that the consumer of American propaganda believes themselves to be a curator of diverse sources which disagree with each other. But in reality these sources are neither diverse, since they are traceable to a handful of media monpolies which themselves receive a significant bulk of their non-investigative information from the US State Department, nor are they in any disagreement when it comes to the details most useful to American foreign policy and intelligence objectives. They are all state propaganda masquerading as independent media. Conservatives and liberals, imagining themselves to be opposites, vote for a single capitalist party masquerading as two opposition parties, and they drink media from the same trough, only slight hints of biased flavor has been added to satisfy their instincts. Both Fox and MSNBC will engage in pro-war propaganda, but one will do so with a xenophobic and fascist glee, while the other will appeal to the so-called humanitarian instincts of the liberal. Between these two extremes, which are not extremes at all, are a litany of "centrist" outlets that mix fascist glee with pseudo-humanitarianism.

—@Eugene_V_Dabs@hexbear.net