Bingo on Gretchen and most people. Look, when you get turned into an NCP against your wishes and turned into a visitor to your own kids ... that's not supposed to actually cause you to SUFFER is it? Nooooo. In fact, it's ... good for you and it's even good for the kid. Yeah, that's the ticket. After all, isn't your freedom what you really want? I mean, you get to lead the wonderful life of pursuing new poot and getting drunk and rocking and rolling any old time you want to and all you have to do is sit down and write a check occasionally -- and meanwhile the longsuffering ex- has to do all the real work. In fact, what on earth are you complaining about you self-absorbed, non-child-support paying, deadbeat? Damn all of you, Hillary was right!
See how it works? Propaganda is the art of getting past your morals and your brain in order to get people to do extremely bad things. Our country isn't full of bad people -- no more than the south was full of actual bigots before civil rights. Our country is full of busy people ... and the kind of thinking necessary to see through propaganda is difficult and time-consuming.
It isn't an accident we're in the mess we're in. But we don't want to blame it on folks like Greta.
