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The very effective dumbing down; distracting; mis-directions of . . . the masses by the media, entertainment, universities, . . . arts . . . for many decades.
And that doesn’t even get into the claims by some that there are massive chemical, radio-frequency etc. tin-foil hat stuff about supposed puppet master mass mind control efforts to insure passivity & submissiveness on the part of the masses regardless of events and idiocies.
Good explanation for the Klintoon Mystique.