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NNadir

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7. It has always been true that masses are susceptible to propaganda. Democracy cannot function in the presence...
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:02 PM
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...of a politically monolithic media pushing propaganda.

I have a book, a Christmas gift from my son, Fears of a Setting Sun, The Disillusionment of America's Founders on the subject of the disappointment of our founding fathers on the functioning of the US Constitution. I have not found time to read much of it. Their work, the Constitution, survived more than two centuries, despite the primitive times in which they lived, almost disintegrating under the weight of their acceptance of the treatment of some human beings as if they were no more than farm animals.

I don't think that any of these men could have anticipated that the ultimate collapse would be in the face of raw stupidity, ignorance, and a system of mass disinformation, and a stupid and ugly man less worthy than a circus clown in a run down carny. They were subjects of "The Enlightenment" as opposed to "The Darkening."

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