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For many Americans like Napolitano--salutary as their dissent may be--unplugging from the Matrix is a very arduous process.

And make no mistake, America is the Matrix--one of planetary reach and penetration, given the American soft power industry from Hollywood to pop music to social media to sports to celebrity worship.

It is much easier to embrace ignorance, as ignorance is seemingly bliss.

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And post 94 the internet with US owned social media. It's the battleground for owning the truth which the empire and its proxies are now busily moving towards censorship regimes. You may be aware that when a critical percentage of population believes something to be true it becomes a majority belief, a quick search turned up this summary "scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute discovered a tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. Specifically, when just 10% of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society"

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Recent Gallup poll on media credibility is a case-in-point. Essentially, the Establishment Narrative no longer works as designed.

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