>That's undoubtedly true, Chris.
>But the question is how do you get people to understand the TRUTH? And an even bigger question is how do you even know if something is true these days?
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>It looks to this outsider that as long as you have only two REAL political parties, with all the coziness that this invites between corporate or union interests and the politicians themselves, you are doomed to manipulation.

I don't know if there is much that can be done. It's apparent that some people are going to believe what they want to believe. It was widely reported in our press after the 9/11 Commission report that there was no evidence of collaboration between Saddam and al-Qaeda, yet many Bush supporters still believed it. They believed it largely because the Bush administration used the term "links" when describing the relationship.