Special Interests manage the media – from theology to economics, from schools to speeches in Congress – in many many ways: and have always done so: long before there were schools or a Congress.
pk suggests that their magic has a single common denominator throughout history: to make the public believe that the public did it: that if anything is wrong with it, the public would be liable. Therefore, nothing can ever be found wrong with it: because, there is no axiom more basic to post-Original Sin political psychology than that the public can do no wrong.
If we stole continents by genocide, well, God must want us to have it.
If we paid taxes to build bombs, to imprison our children, to ensure that the wogs give us their resources on our terms, well ...
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