Do What You Lament (Song Title?)

Griffin laments the ignorance of ordinary citizens regarding foreign policy. He and
Zbigniew Brzezinski are correct that "the American public’s understanding of world affairs as 'abysmal.' We are probably the least informed country in the world, he says." Americans are as ignorant of domestic affairs as well. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings former Democratic US Senator from South Carolina wrote a book, Making Government Work. In it he laments the failure of journalists to keep citizens informed. Many journalists are propagandists, advocates as the New York Times admits. In this essay Griffin tells us about Brzezinski's biography and the book but does not explain any issue about the world that would help us understand what policies are needed and are being implemented. How often do public officials reveal to ordinary citizens what and why they do things?

Much of foreign policy is done in secret. It is a conspiracy of public officials and media companies that keeps us ignorant. How can citizens force the bozos to share what they know? Currently Obama and the elitists, as Harvard Law Professor Duncan Kennedy calls them, are remaking the United States into a subservient nation to global government. They are erasing the borders between the US and Mexico and between the US and Canada. None of this is done with the consent of the governed. Even when citizens are aware of what they do officials lie, deceive others and use psychiatry to discredit the few citizens who are aware. Noam Chomsky calls it "Bewildering the Herd."

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Griffin: Americans ignorance of foreign politics hurts U.S. foreign policy
By Richard Griffin/Growing Older
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Feb 25, 2012 @ 06:39 AM