Yes, we were ignorant to the machine being manufactured against him. We knew the elite and the powerful like launching and supporting nepo kids. But we didn't know they would actively try to sabotage an outsider. This has been eye opening.
I made an analogy to one the greatest intellectuals in the world Noam Chomsky. In his book "Manufacturing Consent" he wrote how the politicians and the media work together to actively make people believe in a certain narrative. Or make it mediocre petty issues are the ones that need to be paid attention to not the important ones. That how people bought into the Iraq. It got related to 9/11 and WMD by the media. The defense contracts who were also in the Bush administration helped. That is how Hillary Clintons campaigned for universal healthcare got stopped. Insurance companies who make millions off of people getting sick in America paid the politicians and worked with media that she was going to turn our into a Communist dictatorship. How much are people who have their own lives, their own families to blame? Versus people actively and knowingly creating this propaganda is another story.
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