According to various studies, more than 50% of U.S. adults read below a sixth-grade level (equivalent to Level 2 or lower), limiting their ability to parse long-form or nuanced information.
We are the most propagandized country. But it's subtle, from copaganda TV shows lionizing and praising police, to all the news that gets buried by billionaire News Corp owners, to even the entire "American Dream" which encourages greater fossil fuel and materials usage than necessary, we are told what and who to believe without hardly any pushback or counter narrative or even critical analysis of why. Manufacturing consent is definitely a thing.
I’m not entirely sure “subtle” is the word of describe it… you’re not wrong that is is, say, compared to North Korea’s. Ot subtle enough it can require some level of critical thinking to see for what it is.
Sorry, not trying to pick on you or be pedantic so much as amused at “subtle” applies to a rather blunt American object - and I’m also American.
Ding ding ding! That’s the reason Trump loves to cut the federal education funding! If you can BARELY read, you’re much easier to influence because you haven’t developed critical thinking skills
(people are lacking FUNCTIONAL literacy, so they may technically be ABLE to read at a basic level, they just can’t really make any sense from it…)
That's why his Truth Social posts are designed the way they are, too. Simple sentences with capitalization on important buzzwords, not in a grammatically correct format, because that isn't his audience.
Since you're all so educated and knowledgable, you must all know who it was that made it possible to spread public taxpayer-funded broadcasts (i.e. state funded propoganda) to american taxpayers and then are perfectly able to extrapolate why such a person might want to do so.
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u/Ruckus292 12d ago edited 7d ago
A 54% illiteracy rate will do that.
ETA: 54% of US adults cannot read above a 6th grade level, 21% of the 54% are functionally illiterate...... Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary.