Propaganda

Whether or not you know it, you see some form of propaganda in one way or another. On television you see Pepsi and Coke companies both trying to influence their buyers to buy their product over the other. On many news channels you find an outspoken, usually racially biased, person claiming that people from our neighboring borders are illegally coming into our country and are ruining the American way of life. These people try to gather as many people to their cause as possible, using fear tactics that our country will be damaged in some way by these border jumping people. Many people are influenced by their view on the situation whether they join the cause or not.

Our own president is always busy trying to convince the citizens of the United States that our part in the Iraqi War is not only going well for us but that it is our obligation to be there. And many people believe everything he says without actually knowing some, if not most, of the actual events and facts that are taking place there. Propaganda is all around us, and the worse part is that it is designed so that you don't recognize that it is propaganda. The only question is, are you buying into it?