What I Did After Police Killed My Son

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59. I 'm not sure what you're getting at here.

First, the U.S. public is not appreciably more or less smarter than any other group of citizens anywhere. MOST groups of people "aren't smart enough to recognize sloganeering and demagoguery" -- refer to Edward Bernays, any psych manual, any advertising agency. If sloganeering didn't work, there'd be no such network as Fox. There'd be no ads anywhere. There wouldn't be the farcical 'debates' we suffer through every election season.

Second, the police are more conservative individually than the rest of the population, so no, they aren't going to vote for a black man for president, esp a black man being smeared as a socialist on Fox. They would certainly not vote for him because they wanted a police state! They vote for the Republican who is more likely to give them that!

Why would anyone need a police state under those conditions? Well, they wouldn't, of course. It is arriving by stealth, not by coup, and not by votes. It's the difference between the police state in Orwell's 1984 and the police state in Huxley's Brave New World. We'll likely be more comfortable and be able to keep our toys in the brave new world, but it's still a police state.

IMO, the U.S. suffers from a severe lack of true leadership. Any sincere leader is handicapped by the need for millions of dollars to run a campaign; the media, which can highlight or hide gaffes, 'screams,' and broadcast outright lies, etc., to tilt the playing field deliberately; voting machine irregularities; deliberate vote suppression by Republicans. The idea that the people themselves can fix all this is pretty weak in practice. For sure, more people are going to have to be living under bridges before things change any.