“Fortunately for me, as a former Intelligence Analyst, I know how to read between the lines, read differing views, and formulate my own analysis and conclusions.”
Maybe so, I’ll take you at your word, but the vast majority do not have the training you have, although they too believe that they have the same skills to discern truth from fiction, see through the fog of distortion.
Nobody is completely immune to the influence of the constant propaganda, the purposeful subtle distortions, it is a matter of degree.
I observe people who self-identify as conservative who accept parts of the leftist agenda without thinking, especially PC thought, and strenuously deny any influence in that regard. The incremental nature of the efforts, through time, is effective at changing peoples thoughts in subtle ways, building gradually. Only in retrospect do the changes become starkly evident.
The efforts to influence thought through manipulation of information works very well, and people like you who see more realistically do not matter to any degree. The converted, the convinced, the deluded, will deny your point of view in favor of their own, the official approved one, and if you do start accruing too much influence, start convincing too wide of an audience, you will be made ineffective, silenced somehow ……. maybe child porn will magically appear on your computer, at just the right time.
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