No one is buying the media this time around.
Good!
The Soviet Union abruptly withered and died when enough people decided they didn’t believe in it anymore.
I have been posting that Americans need to examine their news the way Soviet citizens once read Pravda. The truth was contained in Pravda, but you had to de-code it by reading coded messages “between the lines” and from putting an isolated story into the context of a series of stories over time. By so doing, most Soviets actually knew something approximating the “truth,” but of course they were not allowed to speak it openly.
Americans need to master the same ability, because we are being fed our information the same way Soviet citizens got theirs. We can no longer accept what our media shoves at us at face value. It has an agenda, it has spin, it is mostly propaganda. It is deliberately designed to yield a public opinion result.