Actually, Rachel, it goes a lot deeper than that.
Faux-noise didn't CREATE this situation. They just took advantage of the pro-war, pro-capitalist, pro-growth (at all costs), irrational, emotion driven USAmerican propaganda machine that has been constructed over the last century and a half of Empire.
As Michael Moore has pointed out the essential values of a large majority of USAmericans are "liberal" to "Progressive". When it comes to fairness, equality, "live and let live", anti-corporate sentiment, etc. the masses of citizens are solidly WAY to the left of the shit that comes down from Washington and state houses in this country.
But most buy into the story, the myth that the conquerer's propaganda machine has been pushing since the beginning of Empire (actually since the beginning of the invasion in 1492).
It's the myth of USAmerican exceptionalism. The myth that if USAmerica does it; torture, dropping bombs, firing rockets and machine guns at civilians, it's all for a good cause because USAmerica does it.
The myth that USAmerica is the "greatest country on Earth" when it's demonstrably true that by every important measure; wealth differential, health care, incarceration rates, happiness index (low) and fear index (very high), USAmerica falls FAR behind the civilized world.
It is only in GDP and the size of the war machine does the USAmerican Empire leads.
Oh, and the numbers of people USAmerican terrorists maim and murder in the name of "democracy".
While they put up with a corporate-funded oligarchy running things inside the belly of the Empire.
And the myth goes on; we must bail out bankers and car companies and call it rescuing the financial system, we must shovel $Trillions into the coffers of the health insurance mafia and Big PhRMA and call it "health care", we must keep 150,000 combatants and the largest armed camp mislabeled an "embassy" in Iraq and call it "withdrawal", we must escalate the never-ending war in Afghanistan and shamelessly justify the act while picking up a Nobel Peace Prize!
So, no, faux-noise didn't have to do too much because the sheeple have been well programmed by their capitalist masters and the politicians and media that serve them not to ask the important, hard questions. You're just supposed to accept as a given that the industrial growth paradigm, long work weeks with little or no security and perpetual war are just "the way things always have been and always will be."
A few $Billion from the far right and the whole thing tipped toward fascism.
Quelle Suprise?
On edit: Thread that brought this on...
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