My Name is Jason and I disapprove of US Government

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Originally Posted by Stormieweather

Every shop owner was virulently anti-Obama, claiming he was trying to take away our gun rights.

Of course. Limbaugh et al tell them how to think. That alone was sufficient to know it was true. That is why politics have become so extremist.

But again, we are back to cigarettes. Most people knew smoking cigarettes increased health. Advertising told them how to think. Documented facts and numbers were ignored. That meant learning why before the conclusion is created.

Extremists (also called ideologues) cannot be bothered to first learn facts. Brainwashing works, in part, because so many don't even realize how easily they are brainwashed. Simply tell them something (ie Saddam had WMDs). Then a majority will automatically believe it.

A majority of 1950 Americans just knew cigarettes increased health. Only a minority, who always ask why, were informed. We all witnessed same with Saddam's WMDs and Mission Accomplished. Some of us saw same with Vietnam. So why do so many still make the same msitake again and again?

So easy is to manipulate a majority who really do not want to learn; only want to be told how to think. And who deny they can be so easily brainwashed.

How many are so brainwashed as to believe any terrorist must be Al Qaeda? Same people who were told that Obama would take away their guns. The myth successfully increased sales and profits.