Excellent dissection of how consent is manufactured. A decade or two ago veteran Black Panther Larry Pinkney put it this way “The constant fake battles between the Democratic and Republican parties [i.e. the Republicrats] are meant to distract, dis-empower, and manipulate everyday people, keeping us in a perpetual state of dependence and servitude to these corporate political parties.
While some “liberals” can see through the coded rhetoric of the right-wing, they utterly fail to recognize the convoluted and misleading rhetoric of their own “liberal” leadership. They repeatedly buy into the ‘lesser of the evils’ mythology, which in turn, fosters the continuation and perpetuation of systemic control and manipulation by both the Democratic and Republican parties [i.e. the Republicrats]. This too, is pathological.”