Don't be a Regime-Change Dupe with Ben Norton
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Listen now (76 min) | I feel like it is ground-hog day. The American left keeps falling fo the same old regime change propaganda over and over! Today, Ben Norton from the Grayzone joins us to talk about how not to be a regime-change dupeAll of these refer to regime-change propaganda used by official US Sources

I am currently working on a follow-up to the episode "How not to be a regime-change dupe" with a quick guide on **Don't Fall for the Same BS over and Over **

For those of you who were liberals, why did you repeatedly fall victim to regime change propaganda? Why didn't you mistrust all newssources after the first lie?

I know this question is loaded, but I have always been in and out of the US, so I could always instinctively understand when BS was peddled at me. So, I am trying to get into a mind of a liberal who falls over and over for all propaganda points so I can write this essay and I am unable to do it! I could use some help in earnest!

I apologize for calling the regime-change dupe an idiot. It was wrong.

  • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    Not sure I have too much to add, but when I was an aimless young lib I had maybe an above average understanding of the concept that War Is A Bad Thing from having read some Kurt Vonnegut and stuff in high school. Nevertheless, it was pretty easy to convince me that some supposed dictatorship was starving its people and that war would be better than continuation of that status quo. So I guess my ideology was more like War Is A Bad Thing, But Sometimes Necessary For "Liberation" where my positive examples were like WWII, the American Civil War, and I guess probably the American Revolution. Even growing up with the vague understanding that the Iraq War was some bullshit to get more oil, I still assumed that most of the time the US went in with relatively good intentions, especially when there wasn't an obvious natural resource angle to the intervention. A vague mix of American Exceptionalism, the "Bumbling Empire" media trope (per Citations Needed), and connecting fed media narratives to all those "just war" examples.