{"id":9011,"date":"2019-11-10T18:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2019-11-10T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T18:50:42","slug":"propaganda-method-recycle-old-stories-that-are-years-out-of-date-the-american-dream-is-killing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/11\/10\/propaganda-method-recycle-old-stories-that-are-years-out-of-date-the-american-dream-is-killing-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda method: Recycle old stories that are years out of date-“The American Dream Is Killing Us”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This very long opinion column argues life in the U.S. is terrible and getting worse and “The American Dream is Dead”. The date on this is way at the bottom: October 2, 2016. It’s old. That this was very old was not apparent until encountering this:<\/p>\n

Despite Obama\u2019s impressive proclamation that he\u2019s halved the unemployment rate since he took office, most of the drop in unemployment since the 2008 crisis has come from part-time or low-skilled jobs, and from people leaving the workforce altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: The American Dream Is Killing Us<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The author of this makes a living focused on negativity, with book titles include “Everything is f*cked” and “The Subtle Art of not Giving a F*ck”. His goal is to persuade you that life is terrible, not fair, and getting worse.<\/p>\n

By every metric – education, literacy, unemployment, health insurance, housing, crime, war and yes, even the environment in the U.S., on an on, we in the U.S., and globally, presently live in the best of times in world history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recycling an old opinion column by an author who focuses on persuading you that life is miserable, not fair and getting worse – is an interesting twist on propaganda. The date – its old -is not presented until a footnote at the very end of the very long column; the column was written during the recovery from The Great Recession, immediately after significant economic turmoil. This is the media’s usual focus on negativity by an author who makes his living on negativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,32,34,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-mental-health","category-mind-control","category-other","category-propaganda-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}