Propaganda is everywhere: Why Americans are susceptible to Russian meddling

I'm currious why Russian Meddling is front page news? Were we supposed to assume they weren't? An enemy acting like an enemy seems reasonable. Sanctioning Russia and expelling 35 diplomats I guess is an appropriate response. I can't qualify that opinion, not really my realm. Should we also expel Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton, Hillary and her IT department? I'm less OK with our own government meddling than Russia. But I don't know that. I resorted to watching Antique Roadshow instead of the 24 hours of news/not news blood pressure ass whipping. Still looking for 360° of resolution on 2016 election for no other reason than... it doesn't pass the smell test. Admittedly though, my effort to educate myself on the circus didn't go much further than a Sofrep subscription. And with that in mind... a no BS assessment from Sofrep on the back alley tarmac meeting, the reported disappearance of 30,000 emails, and a reality tv star's rise to power would be a good read. Because frankly, due to what you are speaking to in this article, I lean not solely, but very heavily on Sofrep as a NEWS source. Is that wrong?

Great article, Alex. I have to laugh a bit, because it’s not like the current political parties don’t already have propaganda of their own and they have for years. Anyone else old enough to remember the 1992 election and how both parties attacked Ross Perot? They managed to make a third party candidate, who was a smart, well respected businessman look like a short, weird guy with a cartoon character voice who could never lead the US.

Another excellent article Alex. I've been saying it for about a year now: this nation is little more than a successful KGB/GRU, et al. intelligence operation dedicated to dividing us from within. This is made all the worse because there are so many of our own countrymen who don't consider why things operate the way they do...they merely accept the shiny object at face value. Some are so far gone that they even know the truth about this sewing of discord and hatred (coming largely from outside our borders) but they go along with it anyway, to score cheap points which will make them more prominent, more wealthy, and more influential. This is evil by its very nature. While I certainly have a strong political taste of my own, I am a critical thinker (as I like to think most of us are here on SOFREP) and am not about "team sports," "binary choices," or even the much vaunted shiny objects. If we don't start choosing not to play the game (a la War Games) things will...they must get worse. Start to care about everyone again. The propaganda is strong with many, but propaganda is nothing but the bombardment of information toward a specific aim. Often, it is wildly misleading. So many believe what they do because they hear and have confirmation bias. In this case, though they really aren't doing their due diligence, I can almost forgive it. After all, one can be wrong or incorrect without being evil, its called ignorance and that can be cured. This all changes when violence is injected into the matter, but otherwise, we should opt to win by not playing the game. I do thank God we have writers such as yourself who are willing to be honest with themselves and us. Keep up the good work.

It all depends on the "education". Sociology for example, has become infested with neo-marxist racial collectivism. There is a replication crisis going on in science at the moment, and that is a huge problem! I find that many people hide behind "science" to push garbage. If a claim has been made, I try to verify it through multiple sources.

Interestingly I notice many of the same people saying "you believe everything you read" that tend to be the same ones who believe everything they see on tv and online.