Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
At the same time -- *cough* -- there are some people who seem to believe that Americans are complete suckers and blindly swallow all the jingoistic Red Dawn propaganda that the government dishes out, and yet... Russians and other non-Americans are sharp-eyed, enlightened skeptics who are much too smart to believe the propaganda from their own governments!
I hate to say it, but yeah, I do believe that the majority of people are suckers. Not just Americans either. It's just that Americans - by and large - do not seem to realize that they have been propagandized! And not just by the government, but by the media and corporate lobbyists.

As for Red Dawn, the government didn't produce that film. It was produced in Hollywood, where the majority of movies having to do with Russia tend to portray Russians in one of three ways:

1. Evil villains (A Good Day to Die Hard, Red Dawn, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull)
2. Cannon fodder, oppressed (The Hunt for Red October, Enemy at the Gates)
3. Comedy relief (Armageddon)

I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here. I am trying to be honest. There is much I love about my country, and much which frustrates me too. I will not white wash it for the sake of false patriotism. My belief is that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. If we do not speak openly about the problems, how can they ever change?