Dear Editor

Propaganda is not new. What’s new, is the enormous population of Americans that are now complacently vulnerable to the influences of propaganda and who stake their future, and their children’s futures, on political myths and illusory authority.

Historically, hard-times give rise to demagogues who promise to improve the human condition. From Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” to the insanity of the Third Reich, people have tragically believed that bread is more important than freedom and that man is a pathetic weakling unable to realize peace and happiness until he submits to the control of the few superior beings who know what is best for him.

It is not surprising that we now find ourselves led by a president and congress who openly subvert The Constitution and defy the will of the people in order to push a utopian vision of green jobs, social justice, universal health-care, hyper-regulation, and the redistribution of wealth. Sadly, millions of Americans, threatened by the deteriorating social conditions that surround them, leap into this totalitarian lie of hope-and-change that, by design, seeks to hide the eventual economic ruin that is necessary to transform America into a country that is no longer America.

Hope is misplaced when it rests on a lie. Most Americans are good. Most Americans want what is best for the country. Americans have to be deceived to take the wrong path. They have been. And, no matter how many times the progressive lie is repeated, it remains a lie.

The Republic will soon be returning to the polls to determine our future. This time, let’s cut through the hope-and-change hype and vote for the preservation of the Republic.

Brett Merryman

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