Unfortunately, the discussion continued to devolve. After me trying to describe the Canadian Healthcare system, he brought up his other grievances against Canada, like gun control and our government not supporting the US against Iraq unless they showed proof of weapons of mass destruction. He got more agitated and noticeably louder whenever I would repeat words like liberal or socialized, or if I tried to say gun control wasn’t about responsible users, but simply the correlation between the number of guns in a society to gun deaths unless there was a long and formal process to gain gun ownership. Even the word statistics seemed to raise his blood pressure. Another Green approached me and I excused myself.

What I find most amazing about the programming of these masses of people is how those running the media and controlling government agendas were able to convince whole swaths of population to support political and business practices that were clearly against their own self-interest. Things like accepting sub-par healthcare while insisting it was the best on the planet, a lack of gun control that made the cities they lived in unsafe for their families, an educational system which I’ve heard described by many Americans as “Educate the best and forget the rest,” and more.

Here’s a simple self-test for you to see if you’ve been a victim of such social engineering. Ask yourself, have you ever had a visceral reaction to other people’s point of view on a political subject, a reaction that causes your blood to boil and makes you want to shout down the other side without listening to them? If so, you are a victim of early-childhood conditioning.

I try to watch a broad range of news programs from around the world, to get a balanced viewpoint, but I find it almost impossible to watch a few minutes of FOX opinion programing (as opposed to news). I’m told a large percentage of FOX viewers have the station on in their house the whole time people are up. It’s like in Aldous Huxley’s novel, 1984, where government propaganda runs constantly in people’s homes. When I said this to a friend who was dating a FOX devotee, and got the reply that the liberal media was just as bad, I countered by saying that in the past all news in the USA had to be balanced because of the 1949 legislation the Fairness Doctrine. But in 1987 new lobbyists successfully had the law repealed.