Honestly, I agree with and understand a lot of what...
Right, and those examples are very tragic. But "deregulation" as we perceive it doesn't necessarily come from brainwashing. That word is rooted very deeply in the American consciousness which, as previously mentioned, has been very much against any form of top-down control since the nation was founded.
In the most basic of American binaries -- less "intrusive" government is, as a rule, positive. The concept that people sometimes
actively seek to deregulate the government at
your expense has emerged at numerous times during our history.
First, it broke trough when Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" elucidated the horrible industrial conditions of the guilded age.
Then, it resurfaced when the Great Depression hit and people blamed the crisis on big bankers (the
actual reasons being a bit more complicated).
That attitude more or less sustained itself until the late 60s and early 70s, when Vietnam and Watergate shattered faith in public service and central government -- and that slowly mutated into the Republican deregulation credo we know today. The ongoing conflict with the Soviets is another big social factor. In the Cold War, American citizenry defined themselves in diametric opposition to everything that the Soviets were. They are atheist...we are god-fearing. They are big government...we should be smaller government (smaller than they are, at least).
Same thing goes for health care. Americans dislike top-down change and, after the 70s, they REALLY decided to hate it. America was an economic superpower, so it felt comfortable in NOT adopting institutions of other countries too quickly, believing that its own were naturally responsible for their superiority.
When you look in the history, you find a much richer and nuanced reason than "The b*stards hypnotized us." Part of the American mythos sold to immigrants was ," Work hard, hard, hard! You'll become a millionaire!" So a lot of people threw health in the bushes and stopped caring about the food they ate. Americans don't like excessive (with the definition of excessive being subjective) subsidies, so we don't pay people to live in the countryside like they do in Germany (maybe France, dunno)-- where those people presumably make artisinal foods with a pretty penny from the state. We want to keep going and work because we think there's a big American dream at the end of the tunnel.
What I'm saying is that historical and sociological background trump "brainwashing." The only reason people want to call it "brainwashing" is because they're absolutely convinced they're right. In some cases, they're very clearly right and it will take time to re-adjust the sociological boundaries of a nation and make a change. Others cases, not so much. We have problems because our societal principles and consciousness are running into problems they've never had to deal with before, so they're slowly going to adjust. Brainwashing isn't in the picture unless you believe that all bad situations form non-organically through brainwashing and not from cultural defects that have years of historical precedent. Those people in government are part of the historical milieu. Do you think they go to bed at night thinking THEY'RE the bad guys?
When you see a North Korean documentary whose main criticism is war/the entertainment industry, and it flashes pictures of the Pope? The Pope who has nothing to do with the movie? THAT'S brainwashing. It's important to distinguish pure propaganda from
social ills In fact, we could use some MORE brainwashing. I'd love the federal government to take a WAY more active role in public schools because it's fukking ridiculous that we let each state do its own thing in the 21st century. But that'll take time, and we'll have to reach that point OUR OWN WAY -- same as Middle Eastern countries reaching good representative government THEIR WAY.
I'm going to bed now.
Their propaganda is explaining our propaganda. I think they do it better...
at "narcissistic parasite" I'm fukking dead but 
I need to leave this country for a while for real. 
at that "The Swan" show. This country is more awful than I thought. Capitalism at its finest eh? This documentary is reawakening as fukk. Shows that everything here can be sued to make money. 
) opinions of yours, but you need to step out of your little holier-than-thou arrogance bubble and realize that other people live other lives that demand 24/7 attention. And you probably follow the same damn pattern I just described. 
at me seeing obese 4 year olds, already addicted to Mcdonalds. 
