Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
If as many as 1/2 of the population are not brainwashed, I would be very pleased (and surprised). Unfortunately I think most people are fairly brainwashed. Not just in the US, but everywhere really. Some countries have it worse than others. America has it pretty bad I would say. And a big reason for that is apathy. They are comfortable just trusting the mainstream media, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, etc. They are not trusting or comfortable with news sites like Al Jazeera, RT, BBC, Le Monde, etc because those sources are "not American." Most people are extremely provincial and they get their information from very limited sources.

I should add, I think there is a spectrum of brainwashing going on. Some are so far into not being brainwashed that they go over the edge into conspiracy theories and so on. The other extreme is, of course, the guy who watches FOX "news" 24/7 and thinks everything else is "librul propaganda." No one can ever know all the truth about everything, of course.
Yeah, I saw a thread last night from a girl that thinks the Navy base shooting was a conspiracy. Yeah, like nobody would ever shoot anyone except for a conspiracy, right? LOL! I mean, if anyone had real proof that something happened (like Snowden) then yeah, I believe it. But conspiracy theories are mostly just really lame so i never waste time on stuff like that.
But i will waste time wondering why so many people have so many misconceptions about Russia. I mean, there's so many awesome places in the world so I don't get why anyone wants a cold war. It just locks out about half of the European continent and no way I'm gonna miss out on all the cool stuff like Lake Baikal, the Caucasus mountains, Amur oblast and the new Cosmodrome, and all that awesome snow! People that want a cold war just really needa get a life!