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Silver Bear's avatar

I fear that very soon we are about to witness the fall of this once great nation. Over the last several years. I have tried unsuccessfully to wake people up. Maybe because I am in my sixties, and no one will listen to this old woman. My heart breaks for the children. Their future is being stolen.

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Jo Highet's avatar

I believe the greatest propaganda campaign achieved against the American people was convincing so many that Donald Trump is an existential threat -for all the reasons we hear repeated day in and day out from MSM and the Elites. This has been more successful than the “safe and effective” campaign. I’ve attempted, to no avail, to show friends and family how easy it is to be propagandized by having them watch the  well-known psychological studies that prove it (Ashe conformity, Stanford Prison, Milgrim Experiment etc) with zero success.  I did this because providing factual receipts was not persuasive. It’s extremely frustrating to have raw, unfettered facts outright denied or dismissed. So with all this said, I honestly ask, how do you explain the truth about, say Trump, to all the educated retired liberal people - like my parents – who read the Wall Street Journal, or NYT’s or Atlantic and listen to NPR.  I even went so far as to share information on the media with my mother, using all the normal videos showing the anchors parroting the same lines, proof that fact checking orgs are owned by big tech, the Twitter files, etc. What was my mom’s response? A combo of Wikipedia citations and the age-old question, “but WHY would they do this, Joanna?!”  The answer to that question is a bridge too far for her.  So, I’ve given up on waking her up - I love her but she’s too far gone. Like so many others. This cannot bode well for our future. 😞

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