The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria

 With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a spate of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.

Those who want safety at all costs are clamoring for more gun control measures, widespread mental health screening of the general population, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more CCTV cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more "See Something, Say Something" programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do random bag searches, more fusion centers to centralize and disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, and more surveillance of what Americans say and do, where they go, what they buy and how they spend their time.

All the while, the government continues to amass more power and authority over the citizenry.

When we're being bombarded with wall-to-wall news coverage and news cycles that change every few days, it's difficult to stay focused on one thing-namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law-and the powers-that-be understand this.

This is what happens when an entire nation-bombarded by reality TV programming, government propaganda and entertainment news-becomes systematically desensitized and acclimated to the trappings of a government that operates by fiat and speaks in a language of force.

Since Americans have by and large become non-readers, television has become their prime source of so-called "News." This reliance on TV news has given rise to such popular news personalities who draw in vast audiences that virtually hang on their every word.

While these personalities often dispense the news like preachers used to dispense religion, with power and certainty, they are little more than conduits for propaganda and advertisements delivered in the guise of entertainment and news.

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