Very true.
The war however, extends well beyond the Government/Media complex into a culture that has been conditioned by virtually every institution they encounter. They, this culture is pressured to have blind faith in their Democrat/Liberal leaders without questions. Questioning their liberal masters is met with a tsunami of political correctness by their peers. For them, it basically boils down to a choice between getting along and being accepted or withdrawing entirely from the politics of the day.
What we are left with is three groups. One that is engaged in the politics of the left, one that is engaged on the right and one, that is willfully ignorant.
The MSM/DNC/Leftist feeds the ignorant.
The Right demands the ownership of fundamental truths of “right and wrong”.
The Left demands the “embrace of uncertainty”.
The Leftist leaders use peer pressure, guilt, group think and political correctness to make voting political zombies from the individual.
As a result of being conditioned in uncertainty, these zombies love authority and they need some authority to tell them what to think.
This is why they descend into personal attacks when their beliefs are challenged. They actually don’t have any beliefs other than what they are told to believe. They don’t own any truths, since doing so would make them judgmental.
The war is a cultural war between the “Confident and the Uncertain”.
You are correct. The way that is corrected is by bombarding the ignorant with the truth. Day in and day out. The USSR fell for two reasons. Reagan bankrupted them and opened up more communications channels to the outside world that overwhelmed the Soviet propaganda machine.
We did that with Fox News, talk radio and the Internet. But it isn’t enough. That’s less than 10% of all media. We need to do more. And IMHO the best way to do this is to go after advertisers and hit them in the pocketbook.
That’s what Reagan did with the Soviets. It is tried, true and proven strategy. He left us with that gift. Time to unwrap it and use it.