Now, when it’s way too late, everybody has discovered the phenomenon of Russian propaganda. I can’t turn on the TV or pass by the grocery register without noticing hysterical headlines. It angers me because this milk has not only been spilt, it has gone rancid about a decade ago.
For years, I’ve been begging people to believe that this is happening, to stop linking to garbage articles about “neo-Nazis in Ukraine”, good Soviet chickens (use the search function to your right), Russia’s unhappiness about the NATO expansion, and the impoverishment of Russia by Milton Friedman’s shock therapy. But no, this is a drug nobody could quit. And now that they have extended their oligarchy into the White House, everybody is suddenly going “OMG, how could this happen?”
The only way out of this – and it will be a long and painful way – is for everybody to start asking themselves what it is that was so attractive about this message for such a long time.
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Maybe a need to believe the world, as a whole, is on par with our beliefs and idealistic mindset. That “people anywhere aren’t so different afterall”.
…or something along that line.
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