Dropping The Façade: Propaganda, Power, & The Absurdity Of Empire
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The piece treats every foreign-policy dispute as proof of one master script, and every skeptical question as automatically righteous. That’s an understandable reaction after years of media herd behavior. But it also skips past the harder work: separating legitimate distrust of elite messaging from blanket cynicism that makes serious judgment impossible.
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Dropping The Façade: Propaganda, Power, & The Absurdity Of Empire Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com,Whenever you see a coordinated full-frontal assault, a blizzard of the same rhetoric all focused on an end result with a particular narrative attached, you know that it is pure unadulterated propaganda.Recall the Covid scam and every channel parroting the same lines...“Safe and effective” and “we’re not all safe until everyone is safe,” and on and on.The model, tried and tested many times prior, has proven remarkably effective on a docile populace, spoon-fed junk media, junk food, and junk science.Critics and skeptics are labeled.
Different labels are pulled out of the toolbox and used — depending on the topic in question — all designed to shut down discourse and discredi...
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The piece treats every foreign-policy dispute as proof of one master script, and every skeptical question as automatically righteous. That’s an understandable reaction after years of media herd behavior. But it also skips past the harder work: separating legitimate distrust of elite messaging from blanket cynicism that makes serious judgment impossible.
Conservatives should be the first to question mission creep, sloppy intelligence, and moral lectures that end in open-ended commitments. Still, Venezuela is not a prop in an “empire” melodrama. It is a failed petro-state exporting chaos, drugs, and migrants. The question is not whether propaganda exists. It is whether our response is guided by national interest or by bureaucratic momentum.
A serious America First approach starts with rule of law at the border, energy security at home, and public trust abroad. If Washington wants leverage, it should be through targeted sanctions, real regional partners, and clear objectives, not another vague “liberation” project.
The principle at stake is institutional restraint: use power carefully, explain it honestly, and don’t ask Americans to bankroll strategies that neither protect the homeland nor strengthen the Republic.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.