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WARNING: LONG POST
Collectively, idealists are making progress. But there’s counter-intelligence (sic).
No one really knows who is winning the AI propaganda war.
Nonetheless, here’s a quick summary of fear-and-force atrocities: currently, of 20 to 25 years ago, and 52 to 57 years ago, that have or had a negative psychological and / or physical effect on millions of (not just Americans’) lives.
WAR-RELATED
CURRENTLY: Trump and his gang (teaming up with Israeli leader Netanyahu) launched a war against Iran; domestic goon squads are roaming the United States rooting out foreigners, touching off rioting and even more protests in a vicious cycle; not to mention extreme retaliation against anyone on Trump’s enemies list.
20 TO 25 YEARS AGO: Cheney, Bush and their gang (in 2003 teaming up with British leader Blair) launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; there were offshore torture chambers in Guantanamo Bay in which some 500 to 600 Middle Easterners (accused “terrorists”) were detained and denied the previous American version of due process.
52 TO 57 YEARS AGO: Nixon and his gang continued destroying Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; protests stemming from various dissatisfactions among Americans, and political assassinations, touched off rioting and even more protests in a vicious cycle; not to mention: extreme retaliation against anyone on Nixon’s enemies list, and the Damocles sword of conscription hanging over every American male– teenage or older, and his family.
COMMUNICATIONS
CURRENTLY: There is electronic surveillance everywhere, 24/7 of very nearly all Americans, plus instantaneous communications of propaganda. Trump has touched off an orgy of litigation regarding “free speech.”
20 TO 25 YEARS AGO: Computing power had yet to reach its peak, so that Big Brother apparatus and assembly of spying infrastructure had yet to be completed.
52 TO 57 YEARS AGO: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his gang created and tried to maintain an overwhelming number of physical files (or dossiers)– with typewriters, on paper– an extremely inefficient system. Nixon, in controlling the FCC, attempted to intimidate the leaders of the limited number of communications outlets across the United States. He got mixed results. Nixon himself was the one who wanted to record all audio goings-on in the Oval Office. For posterity.
ENVIRONMENTALISM / HEALTHCARE
CURRENTLY: Hypocrisy and greed rule the United States. Unfortunately, cancer treatment is more lucrative than cancer-risk minimization.
20 TO 25 YEARS AGO: Hypocrisy and greed ruled the United States. Unfortunately, cancer treatment was more lucrative than cancer-risk minimization.
52 TO 57 YEARS AGO: A few “Cassandras” were telling the world about disasters, past, present and future, eventually spawning a movement. Yet politicians know that raising taxes (even if warranted in order to pay for an ounce of prevention– to minimize damage from an inevitable future “Hurricane Katrina” type disaster) will get them voted out of office. So they don’t raise taxes. They just hope a Katrina doesn’t happen on their watch.
IN GENERAL, CURRENTLY
All previous abuses of United States politics have become concentrated in one big, excessive system of dishonesty, hypocrisy, greed, incompetence, chaos, etc.; some of which will dissipate or turn around. Time will tell how soon. The turnaround will happen in baby steps. In connection therewith, one baby step is the election of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. The smear campaign against him shows he’s a good threat to the status quo. Here’s a song that elaborates on that.
THE COMMIE-MUSLIM
sung to the tune of “The Loco-Motion” [the original version] with apologies to Estate of Gerry Goffin, and Carole King, and to whomever else the rights may concern.
Fox is doing the same old rant now.
C’mon haters, boo the Commie-Muslim.
They’ll turn-you against Mamdani, with his tax-the-rich stance now.
C’mon haters, boo the Commie-Muslim.
The little scared minds boo him with ease.
It’s easier than checking facts to see-him SINcerely.
So come on, come on, boo the Commie-Muslim dumbly.
You gotta ask specific questions now. Come on haters.
Hurry up. Talk back. Oh well, critical-thinking is what you lack.
You’re so quick to boo him, let’s play “telephone” now.
C’mon haters, boo the Commie-Muslim.
But-but Jeff Bezos’ actions are well known now.
C’mon haters, boo the Commie-Muslim.
The rich will leave New York now, it’s out of control.
With Fox’s provocation, this line gets old.
So come on, come on, boo the Commie-Muslim dumbly.
He’s got Hochul’s approval, that Commie-Muslim.
C’mon haters, boo the Commie-Muslim.
His big plans have got Democrats buzzin’.
C’mon haters, boo the Commie-Muslim.
Fox always has a rant that’s easy to do.
It’s fun to smear Mamdani. He hates the Jews.
So come on, come on, boo the Commie-Muslim dumbly.
C’mon, boo the Commie-Muslim. C’mon, boo the Commie-Muslim. C’mon, boo the Commie-Muslim…