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"Before the invasion in March 2003, polls showed 47-60% of the US public supported an invasion"
by peteretep 11y ago
"Before the invasion in March 2003, polls showed 47-60% of the US public supported an invasion"
- x5n1 11y agoManufactured Consent talks all about that. With propaganda you can get any group of people in the world to attack some other random group. Does not mean anyone actually supports it, just that they can be coerced into doing so. Polls as justification for popular mandates is itself a sham. Polls lie.
- peteretep 11y agoThis reduces to all elections being non-binding as they're subject to manufactured consent, and thus doesn't stand up.
- Retra 11y agoThat's right. "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” - W. Churchill
- hackuser 11y agoMaybe, if not for various manipulations, more people would have supported the invasion.