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about the state of affairs in America today.
The media lie to us regularly; there is no more truth value in CNN or the network broadcasts than in Pravda in the Bad Old Days, and for pretty much the same reason: the ruling classes use lies and partial information to shape our beliefs and emotional responses to their will.
Even when the public uses the so-called power of the vote against their abusers, the People In Charge simply miscount the results and, through their control of information, convince the people that the election was honest.
We watch in horror and incomprehenskon as the ruling classes strip the nation of its wealth, raiding the public treasury on a grand scale, entangling us in wars across the world that serve no interest of ours, but merely advance the interests of the plutocrats as they play their game of global empire.
The mechanisms of the police state grow stronger day by day under the guise of orotecting us from foreign and domestic enemies. The government hones its skills at torture, even building an interrogation chamber in the White House before (can we doubt this is coming?) they turn their dark arts upon us.
Nothing we do has any effect. We watch ourselves sink into despair and learned helplessness.
Like I said, talk me out of this mindstate. Please.
Explain to me why I shouldn't be totally cynical.
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