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In reply to the discussion: Social Justice is the ONLY Path to Economic Prosperity for Workers in This Country [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)In tandem with the assaults on journalism (The US has now plummeted to an abysmal 49th in press freedoms!), they have built and implemented a propaganda machine to deny reality itself.
Hillary stands for the malignant corporatism that is, quite literally, dismantling our Bill of Rights, implementing mass surveillance, criminalizing investigative journalism and whistleblowing, looting the masses into poverty, and protecting a criminal, warmongering elite. Her "trade agreements" are antidemocratic and fascistic at their core, because they are *designed* to allow predatory corporations to override our ability to use our own democratic systems to defend ourselves against predatory corporatism.
Yet we get a drumbeat of "2+2=5." We get Cass Sunstein and campaigns of lying disinformation and smear. We get insulting labels like "neoliberalism" and "centrist" for what is nascent fascism.
We live with the creepy voices of propaganda now. We marinate in it. Amd it tries to tell us that what we observe with our own eyes and live in our own lives isn't really being done to us.