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Is Tyranny Breaking Americans: Broken and Giving Up?

In an article titled “Are Americans a Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression” author Bruce Levine raises some good points that can be observed these days but not much commented on.

He asks: Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?

And goes on to imply the answer by asking another question:Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?

It sure seems so. I do hear this myself, people frustrated with the daily disasters in Washington and Wall Street that keeps going and it seems to them there is nothing they can do about it.  And I see the despair and even the passive, dis-couraged situation people are in.  My friend asked me not to tell him any bad news at our scheduled lunch. I stopped doing that, so I am included. People don’t want to watch TV for more bad news.
The author goes on to imply that the government and those in control are actually doing this on purpose over and over again, in full view, so the population just gives up any resistance at all and would rather be illusioned and entertained rather than face their dire reality.

Well I do agree that the effects he described are present.  Not sure I agree on the causes are that calculated, but they could be. What do you think?