Bombarded by shameless liars and fake outrage on a daily basis, Americans have lost their ability to connect problems in their lives with the politics and public policies which affect them.
Our condition is excellently laid out in this article by Henry Giroux linked in truthout.org
My angle on this is that regular Americans have been told by Fox and Fakes that they should be mad at liberals and democracy and equality -- and that your misery is their fault, not yours.
Simple is so easy to sell -- there is no heavy lifting or thinking involved. And, to salve the populace that nothing is their fault -- all your problems are caused by "them" -- is both a relief and a cop-out, a gift that serves up a rationalization for choosing ignorance. In other words, "You're off the hook. Feel better?"
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