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Originally Posted by DGB454
I have heard people get criticized for not supporting the troops and rightly so, but I don't recall anyone being called Anti-American over it. Of course I haven't heard everything everyone says about it so it's possible it happens.
Watch those jokes. People around here tend to get a little touchy about that kind of thing.  |
hmmmm....well that last sentence just contradicts your first paragraph. The point is that portions of the American government is so effective at using propeganda and persuasive tactics that it has manipulated huge portions of its population to being blindly pro-American and 'patriotic' to the exclusion of any effective criticism of the actions of the government.
Of course the government is relying on the compliance of large portions of the population to help it meet its agenda.
You will do your country a service by agreeing less with the government and criticising more.