How can the Americans who follow politics so closely not see (or realize?) that both parties of the American political system are very highly likely lying fakes, and continue to blindly, and boldly follow their "leaders" and attack the other side?

No mention of how far to the Right our media has gone since Watergate. Where Democrats are matter-of-factly referred to in the media as "liberals" and leftists".

The national discourse has a "forest for the trees" problem. Where its idea of what "liberal" or "left" really is has been perverted by corporate-owned media. What the average mouth-breather thinks is "leftist" really just slightly to the Right of center (moderate conservative).

Sorry to say but there really are people above the fray - who correctly see the whole "Democrat vs Republican" thing as a charade. But you never hear their voices because of the very nature of corporate media.

People in other countries always wonder why Americans aren't rioting in the streets. it's simply because corporate media doesn't allow for counter-culture/progressive ideas to go mainstream.

They've successfully set up this "leftist straw man" -- who in reality is just mildly less conservative than someone on The Right.

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