Thread by @caitoz

Bolivia Shows Why Imperialists Work To Keep Populations Propagandized

"They work so hard to manufacture consent because they need it."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/bolivia-show…

Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales' cabinet Luis Arce has restored power to MAS.
theintercept.com/2020/10/19/bol…

Contrary to what a recent Guardian headline asserts this was not a "stunning comeback" for MAS but a widely anticipated repudiation of the false claims that were spun by western narrative managers that Morales had rigged the election.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1318306444664393728

Which is a good illustration of why imperialists pour so much energy into using propaganda to manipulate what people think and do. If you can't manipulate people into supporting your actions, they'll just wind up undoing all your handiwork.

The great elephant in the room, around which so much of the behavior of establishment power revolves, is that there are many more ordinary human beings than there are sociopathic dominators trying to exploit them.

The fact that we greatly outnumber them rarely enters the minds of the rank-and-file citizenry, but for the manipulators responsible for engineering the continuation and expansion of the imperialist oligarchic status quo, it is always at the center of their attention.

The powerful fear the people. Always have, always will. They are at all times acutely aware that there's nothing stopping the public from using the power of their numbers to take back everything their rulers stole from them and doing whatever they like to their former oppressors.

We're like a giant the size of a mountain who is in an abusive relationship with a tiny little man; we might not think too much about how we could squash him like an insect whenever we like, but he most certainly does.

And that's why the manipulators responsible for keeping the empire running work all day every day ensuring the people never awaken to their true power.

They don't buy up narrative control in the form of media outlets, think tanks, NGOs, political influence and advertising in collaboration with opaque government agencies because they've got nothing better to do. They work so hard to manufacture consent because they need it.

So don't give them your consent. Refuse to be propagandized. Refuse to let your countrymen be propagandized. Work to awaken people to their lies. Work to awaken people to their true power.