The manufacturing of public opinion in America. [View all]
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But how is it possible for a man whose first term in office was, by any measure, the single worst Presidency in all of American history, and who committed waves of crime with mountains of evidence produced in two major investigations, able to get the kind of support this demagogue has been able to maintain among a base that represents about 30% of registered voters? The man is a buffoon, an image, a fraud, a phony, a grifter whose old age dementia requires much more management of his appearances than the media claims about his predecessor. How is it that he has the kind of support that he does?
It's because we have no free press left in America, and because he is a public figure who has a specific identity, and whose obsession with money, which leads him to place financial value on every aspect of life, is exactly the kind of President the billionaire class in America need to be able to run the country their way. They control the media, having turned it into a for-profit venture like everything else they touch. So with money as the bottom line of everything, they have conducted a four year media campaign to re-elect Trump as President.
A sizeable chunk of the population doesn't get its news from traditional sources that still follow some kind of journalistic ethics. They get it from a virtually unregulated media with a plethora of websites and podcasts all aimed at cornering a niche to make money. There's little regulation, as far as the standards of the FCC are concerned and ethics, integrity and honesty are no longer values of media sources, including those who claim to be "Christian." Some of them are the worst violators when it comes to truth and integrity.
It's up to each individual American to do the hard work of research, to determine where the truth lies without being distracted by appeals that are based more on their monetary value or commercial appeal than they are on any set of human values. Read books carefully, noting the author's perspective and background. Listen to podcasts with discernment, applying those critical thinking skills learned in school, if those are even being taught anymore, and pass these skills along to your children. Otherwise, we become victims of propaganda doing the will of someone else who has the money to purchase the means of manipulation.
Our freedom depends on it.