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"It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That's the way to soften up a democracy."― J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit
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Nothing is real," observed John Lennon, and that's especially true of politics.
Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir's 1998 film
The Truman Show, in which a man's life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in
the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population.Take the media circus that is the Donald Trump
hush money trial, which panders to the public's voracious
appetite for titillating, soap opera drama, keeping the citizenry
distracted, diverted and divided.
This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.
Everything becomes entertainment fodder.
As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer's seat, we'll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.
Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch — and I would posit that it's all reality TV, entertainment news included — the
more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.
"We the people" are watching a lot of TV.
Comment: Since the US has much autonomy at the bases they occupy in various European countries, and have weapon systems that can carry nuclear weapons, denials from officials like the Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorsky and Jens Stoltenberg are of little merit.
1) For the US Government and aligned people, it is of advantage to maintain high tensions in Europe. Besides turning attention away from internal issues, as Peskov suggests, increased defence spendings amounts to more US produced weapons being added to the European shopping carts, and money going away from the EU economies, thus supporting the US economy cannibalizing the European.
2) The EU and NATO have invested much in Ukraine, some countries so much that their identity is becoming fused with the need to keep the fight going.
3) Comparing the Wikis for Enlargement of NATO with Generalplan Ost reveals a few similarities, of which depopulating parts of Eastern Europe is a common result. And would not some of the architects of Operation Barbarossa have applauded the high number of dead descendants of the Soviets?