
So sings country legend Merle Haggard, who used to place those who said such things on "the fighting side" of him.
Let's get out of Iraq,
And get back on track,
Let's rebuild America first.
See and hear Merle sing it.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~Noam Chomsky