i used to think that both npr and pbs were rational and balanced; but it's become clear that they're not ever i since expanded my feed to outside the united states and independently financed sources like "democracy now" during the election.

now it's bone chilling for me to see that we're so thoroughly propagandized that there's no longer a need to hide it from americans; it's blatantly an out-in-the-open secret that works simply because americans don't read, so they'll never learn from the people who came and tried before them; only our oligarchs have that needful knowledge and they no longer have to bother hiding that education from us.