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Short answer: this dries up any dissent. But if you think THIS is what stops people from organizing politically then you're wrong: the intelligence agencies hav
by littletimmy 11y ago
Short answer: this dries up any dissent. But if you think THIS is what stops people from organizing politically then you're wrong: the intelligence agencies have done a lot worse. They've dabbled with human experimentation in the 50's, sabotaged civil rights movements in the 60's, propagandized anti-Soviet literature in the 70's, and so on. This is another step in the long line of government abuses in the land of the free.
- cryoshon 11y agoYes, I'm aware of COINTELPRO and the like-- and I know that similar programs exist now as well. Kind of odd how the "bastion of democracy" can't stop doing unabashedly anti-democratic things over the course of decades.
- littletimmy 11y agoThe thing is, democracy doesn't work on a scale as large as the United States. (By not work I mean the people are far to the left of the elite with their redistributionist policies, and that's unacceptable to the people in power.) So either you have countries directly managing public opinion like China/Russia, or you have countries covertly managing public opinion like the United States. Essentially, you have to choose Brave New World or 1984 if you want to manage a "democracy".