et's say your own son or daughter, and that child was young and they hadn't learned much about history and they wanted to know about the United States, let's say they're nine or 10 years old, how would you explain our election system? Would you say well we've got this system where people learn about the candidates, you know they run for office, the news reports everything about them, then these citizens use their judgment and then they decide who they want and what preferences they agree with and then they vote. Then whoever gets the most votes — oh no it's not whoever gets the most votes, it's the electoral college but just a detail. Now would you describe it that way in 2024? Because I wouldn't be able to do that.

If a young child who had not yet learned it in history asked me what our system is, I would say well on the surface it's this pretend republic thing with voting. What it really is is a massive propaganda operation in which one propagandist side goes against the other. The propaganda determines what the voters think and that automatically makes them vote a certain way. So then the 10-year-old would say so it's about voting? I'd say no, no you didn't listen to me. The voting doesn't matter at all. The voting follows from the brainwashing. If you get the brainwashing right, the voting is just automatic. So the voting is the least important part of this process. It's just the final part. The most important is the brainwashing.

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