1 posted on
07/16/2019 10:45:41 PM PDT by
bitt
To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...
"And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry."
2 posted on
07/16/2019 10:46:33 PM PDT by
bitt
(US intel is there to protect the safety and security of Americans. It is not a political tool.)
To: bitt
So, who is the author?
Ivey... but which Ivey?
His opinion sounds much like Victor Davis Hanson.
It is not Podesta writing, but Ivey.
7 posted on
07/17/2019 3:31:21 AM PDT by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: bitt
The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. He is mistaken on this, by conflating the unaware with the non-compliant. The unaware are compliant; the aware gave us the fighter Trump.
8 posted on
07/17/2019 3:34:10 AM PDT by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: bitt
“unaware and compliant citizenry”
Has worked very well.
10 posted on
07/17/2019 4:27:50 AM PDT by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: bitt
Now you know what all the gazillion or so “think tanks” have been doing all these years.
And it also indirectly illustrates the role of the press. No wonder everybody hates them.
To: bitt
After reading the original article, dive into the comments.
And so we see, just as a minor point, the blacklisting of Prager University videos at Progressive-activist corporation Google/YouTube. Can't have the unwashed masses hearing counter-narrative history, for example. It also explains the overall rewriting and teaching of history and the lack of basic economics education in high schools. So yes, mission accomplished.
[snip]I think his concern was not that "they were no longer blindly accepting the left's BS "messaging."", but rather, someone else had managed to co-opt the communication line to these befuddled masses. In other words, the are still mindlessly watching television, they've just suddenly realized there might be more than one channel.
14 posted on
07/17/2019 5:39:50 AM PDT by
ptsal
To: bitt
16 posted on
07/17/2019 7:08:21 AM PDT by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
To: bitt
The Center for American Progress received money from Russia via a kind of front company in the Bahamas...what was it, Sea Change?
17 posted on
04/01/2022 4:21:41 PM PDT by
piasa
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