Poll Finds Nearly Half of Americans Realize the Empire Has No Clothes
The Independent breathlessly reports that 47% of Americans feel neither Trump nor anyone else can restore the country's former glory. What the 'shocked' journalists fail to mention is how much their own industry has contributed to this cynicism. When outlets like CNN spend 11 months avoiding terms like 'ethnic cleansing' while showing endless images of suffering in Gaza, only to finally 'discover'
civilian casualties, the disconnect becomes palpable. The public is not blind; they see the political charade, the endless wars funded by their tax dollars, and the performative outrage that never translates into meaningful change. Perhaps the 'shocking' part isn't that Americans have lost faith, but that the corporate media still believes anyone is listening to their manufactured hope. While
pundits debate if Trump or Biden will 'unite' a divided nation, millions understand that the system itself is the division. How many more 'last warnings' about the 'death of the American Dream' (as The Independent puts it) are needed before they grasp that the dream was always someone else's nightmare?