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  • "The only question now is: How long have we been listening to, watching or reading government approved propaganda?"

    Walter Chronkite was a Bilderbecker. I am sure other mouthpieces preceded him since the days of Woodrow Wilson.

    • The only advantage we had, up until the 70s was that there were a lot of independent news magazines and papers that did do a decent job of presenting both sidesof a story.  during the 60s large,government controlled, conglomerets started buying up all of the independents.  and the government backed the change.

    • That's how it happens, each generation comprehends less what freedom meant. 
      While I was living under communist rule, I didn't think it was horrible or scary, it was normal..I was born into it and knew nothing different. A dream of going somwhere in the world was just that, forever a dream, you knew you never will! As a child I dreamed of going to Singapore, I knew I never could, until I was an adult living in the USA did I get to do that!

      Having to have papers at all times to prove who you are  was normal, soldiers with arms at the railroad station was normal, closed borders, checkpoints, not having the ability to leave was normal, receiving letters from the west opened and read by the government was normal, having to dress in uniform and march to the soviet anthem was normal, being told how to feel about everything, and parrot what we were told was normal, not being able to speak freely even to relatives was normal, if you did have someone you trusted with your life, your conversations were behind closed doors, shades down, and in a low whisper.......and it was normal. 
      In your gut you knew, you felt something was off, but you ouldnt put your finger on it, that's how you lived. Not until my father defected did I have a better understanding, a lot of questions because of how we were treated by the government, and it's because of that that I could see the wrong and began to fight for my freedom.

    • It happened, the government had full control over who get educated and who doesn't. When my father defected the first thing they did was make sure I would never go past 8th grade. I would hand in a perfect paper and the teacher would give me a 1=F. One of the reasons I started procedures to leave. It took me 5 years to get out and wile in high school here, some thought I was a teacher not a student.....but I wasn't going to allow that regime determine my future, I did what I had to do to advance!

    • Thats true! I recall the change being noted in popular entertainment plots of the time.

    • Certainly even in newsprint. Remember the term,"Yellow Journalism"?

      That was the color the cheap paper turned, as used by turn of the 20th century quasi-fictional journalist publications.

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    Why is this such a big thing? Because the communist left and their handlers do not want a free exchange of ideas. They want to continue to control what narrative the public is given. Media heads were literally exploding all over Twitteryesterday because they do not believe the public should be allowed to make their decisions based on ALL information. Nope, they want controlled information.

    What they seem to fail to realize is they have proved what we have been saying all along - we don't have a free press. We have government controlled mouthpieces who dutiful cite the approved narratives for public consumption and manipulation. 

    The only question now is: How long have we been listening to, watching or reading government approved propaganda?"

    It is a big deal because without free speech we are controlled, people are brainwashed, look how far they can take it....it is obvious when we look at North Korea!
    Imagine if the only information we could get came from MSNBC, CNN, and others like them, and the same would come through the internet. 

    For Elon to do this is nothing less than trying to save the country, and only somone like him, with his kind of money can do this.......and he is willing to fight, he's from South Africa, he clearly understands!

    You ask how long we have been told and listened to government propaganda? Decades!!!! When I came here in 1969 during the Vietnam war, they were already telling the people what they wanted Americans to hear and believe. America was not in Vietnam to win, just like we were not in any war since then to win! They sacrifice our kids and then they build a monument to make the people shut up, and future generations to believe they actually cared. It was back then they started with "free love", when abortion became something to be proud of, when going to church was sort of dorky, when getting high made one cool, when welfare lost its stigma, when fathers became disposable, etc. To me, coming from a communist country it was obvious this was not leading anywhere good, and those talking to the people sounded like communists-light to me. 

    i have been warning born Americans for four decades that we are sliding in this direction, they always told me there's no reason to fear, this will not happen in America. I still get shut down today with all that is happening, many born Americans still think they know and understand communism better than someone who lived it. As I said before, one can take a horse to water,  but cant make him drink! People either choose to hear the other side of the story or refuse it, it's much like when parents try to warn their children because of their own experiences..... but the kids rather do it their own way, and realize too late that learning from other's mistakes is easier. 

    Hope and pray that Elon can pull this off, it would be a game changer, that's why the commies are freaking out because he is not trimming their horns back he is cutting them off, through this he will expose them for all to see what they have been planning......and there's nothing they can do becuse he has more money  and through his 10% purchase more power than the rest.

    • I so fully agree with this statement.  Also having been born in a forgeign land, where naturally evil men can control public  thought, I  believe this is taking place in the United States and many are are "woke" because it truth they are asleep.  Where I was from the native saying was: "there is nothing more difficult to do that try to wake a person pretenting to be asleep".

      Elon Musk is one of the shining lights that has come up in these troubled times of darkness.  I only hope and pray more like him step up, band together and rally us all against the forces of evil.  And soon hopefully, because this evil is unrelenting.  God is on our side however and that is huge.

       

    • "there is nothing more difficult to do that try to wake a person pretenting to be asleep".

      That is so true, so many are afraid of the truth and rather hide their head in the sand, too many everywhere! I pray God is on our side!

    • I'm familiar with Yuri Brezmenov, thanks.

      We are on the brink, immigrants like me have been watching it creep in very systematically, but when we voice it we are looked at as emotionally damaged by where we came from. I suppose for most Americans it is impossible to imagine, some things one has to live to fully understand. 
      I'm glad someone finally helped you with he "understanding". There is a level of liberation in even the ugly truth!

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