because that technology already exists. It's called the news.

The primary purpose of the news in the current era is to make it harder for you to make decisions. Am I wrong about that? That feels to be the primary purpose of news now. I feel like it used to be some kind of a public good where we'd become educated, we'd become better citizens and everything, but it's not that anymore, is it? It doesn't seem to be that it has any kind of public good purpose. In fact, it seems like some kind of a virus that the public is having to deal with.

So if you follow the news, as I do, you're in the same boat that you're willingly submitting to a technology that is designed to make you less able to make good decisions, because it's designed to confuse you. It is propaganda by design. It's not accidental.

Speaking of propaganda, the Jussie Smollett case, I think you've all realized, is much bigger than a case about one person. Because our brains are organized in such a way that we like to think any one example of something is really representative of the whole. And the Democrats had this very successful, let's say, narrative going on that Republicans were a bunch of racists and you live in a racist country and a bunch of white nationalists were doing a bunch of racist stuff. And you really needed to understand that before you voted.

But because this Jussie Smollett thing became such a big story, it's kind of the first thing you're going to think about the next time you hear that some Black person is alleging that there was a racial crime against them. Am I right? It'll be the first thing you think of, just because it's such a high-profile case now. That's not fair, right? We live in a world where awful things are happening all over all the time, and they're real. They're not fake. There's real awful stuff happening. But your brain is going to automatically go to the most shiny object, and that happens to be this case.

So if you were a Democrat and you were thinking at the highest level of strategy, you'd be a little bit worried about this, wouldn't you? That this one case makes it look like maybe their whole narrative was, I'm not saying it is, but it's going to feel like it. And that's really damaging to their whole story that they're the good guys and the Republicans are the bad guys.

So how do you fix something that absolutely can't be fixed? Because this is unambiguously a hoax. Unambiguously he was trying to frame MAGA people. Unambiguously it was anti-Trump supporter. Unambiguously it was designed to make people hate Trump supporters in a way that could be violent in the long run. I mean, if you believe that this sort of thing was happening, it would be easy to get violent in response to it if you thought it was real, if you thought it was part of a trend. That's what the news was telling you.

So given that this all blew up in the faces of all the people who thought it was real, how do you fix it? And I saw David Axelrod tweet that is so clever. And I mean that legitimately. I think there are only maybe five people on the Democrat side who could do what David Axelrod did in this tweet. Now it's not good enough, and I laughed for ten minutes when I read it, but it is such a good try in the face of an impossible task. It's such a good try.

I'm going to read it to you because he's operating at sort of the highest level of communication and strategy within the Democrats. He's one of maybe five people who can do this sort of thing. And this is what he said. He said that Jussie Smollett inexcusably slandered our city, meaning Chicago, to advance his career. Today a jury held him accountable for that scheme.

So it feels as though David Axelrod is very cleverly trying to make us look like, make us think that the problem here was not tha