He quietly urged other military personnel to reflect on their own positions. “They should be confident in questioning possibly immoral or illegal orders,” he said, “remembering they are responsible for their own actions, and knowing others are asking the same questions.”
“If they have doubts about their orders, they are not alone,”
It’s not that Americans can’t and will not fight, it’s that half the population is illiterate. How do you fight 175 million neighbors?
its 4th grade reading level now, math is probably worst than arithemetic.
Something like 50% of humans are hard wired to follow their gut. They rely on fairh, authority, and feelings to guide their everyday descision making. They do not live their lives based on facts or logic. If they believe something, then, its true.
Right wing media takes full advantage of this. They spent 40 years making people “feel” a certain way.
So, to answer your question, I think we need to stop the constant flow of poison flowing into their ears. The poison needs to be replaced with a better message.
I wish there was a better way to sabotage that signal. At this point, those rage-pundits thrive on embarrassing themselves and can say the most heinous and vile things without their audience turning on them. Heck, the worse it gets, the more their audience shifts into insanity!
Even the fact that they’re filthy rich while screaming at and demeaning their audience with “self reliance” and “rugged individualism” messages hasn’t phased them.
The fact they claim to be Christian but are the most useful tools of hell is simply shrugged off because the Bible is too “hard to comprehend” but this media is always right there, screaming at them to hate and be afraid. It’s “simple.”
But just hypothetically silencing them somehow will lend more credibility to the narrative that they’re the ones with the truth and everybody’s out to get them.
This is literal destabilization PsyOP strategy.
How do we stop a constant bombardment that wires people to indulge in the worst parts of their nature?
I’m not being a doomer here. I lost my dad to FOX’s bullshit and at a point in my life it threatened to take me too. I really want to know how we can counter this at scale…
I generally agree with you, but it flows both ways. And I know we hate this whole both sides thing, and I generally agree, but all news is propaganda these days, it feels like. The constant message I try to spread is to think micro. Stop taking on these world problems and try to solve a problem more locally, try to take an action that you can physically take with your own hands. I firmly believe that stronger communities make a stronger nation.
I live in a place where elections are upcoming, and I see signs of the opposition, but I try to think of these people first and foremost as my neighbors. I truly think that solves a lot of problems, because while the right is thinking of everyone on the left as criminals, the left is painting anyone on the right as Nazi fascists, and this in and of itself is a problem. The other side is not inherently wrong. There is no one correct way to do things. We’re all fumbling through life, nobody knows what theyre doing, lets try to do it without being afraid of each other.