Divide and Conquer: The Propaganda Machine Fueling Right-Wing Rage
It's not because voters changed their mind on their own - it's because of propaganda
Link to CNN article that prompted my article, here.
“They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.” ~John Milton, Areopagitica,11-23-1644
In Areopagitica, a pamphlet distributed by John Milton, argued against censorship and for the freedom of the press; suppressing knowledge and then blaming people for ignorance is both hypocritical and oppressive. This is what is happening in Rural & Working Class America today.
Joe the plumber didn’t wake up one morning and think to himself, “I should vote for the right winger this election!”
Joe didn’t wake up one morning and start to think. Nope. Joe doesn’t think. That’s the problem.
Someone thinks for him. Joe’s a good listener. He’s loyal and obedient. A red-blooded American. He listens to the millionaire White men in suits on Fox News and other networks owned by Billionaires. Joe watches Fox News. He’s angry. He imagines killing one of these liberals. All of them. Why don’t they just leave this country! 50 years ago, Joe was Archie Bunker. In Joe’s small town, things haven’t changed much around town or inside people’s brains.
They’re angry! They rant and rave about threats that they know nothing about. The war on Christmas. Wokeness. CRT. DEI. Black history month! What about White history? Black lives! What about White lives? Invasion of illegal aliens! Cancel culture. They’re coming for your guns! Voter fraud. Stolen elections. Socialism - they’re coming for your paycheck! Attacks on Christians. Shia law. Liter boxes in school bathrooms. The globalist agenda! A one-world government! Hollywood elites! Indoctrination at public schools. Sex changes at high schools. Eating the dogs, eating the cats! Defunding the police! Kneeling during the National Anthem! Tax increases! The Climate change hoax! it’s endless.
Joe doesn’t question anything. He takes everything Fox says at face value. He doesn’t think. Joe is gullible because he’s loyal. He is proud to be loyal. He is embarrassingly loyal.
He is also full of pride. A proud man. So proud that he can never admit he’s wrong. He’s always right. When he knows he is wrong, he doesn’t say anything, he gets quiet. He knows his wife and kids know when he’s wrong. No one says anything. They protect his pride.
Billionaires wants more money. They want all the money. They want to control everything. They don’t want to be bothered with regulations. They don’t care about other people, their health or well-being. Billionaires develop a delusional disorder where they are grandiose. They believe they are special. They feel like the main character. They can pay anyone to work for them. They fire people from a distance. This discard people like disposable packaging.
Billionaires plot. They conspire with other billionaires to make more money, gut regulations. Get tax breaks. Get subsidies. Get government loans. Get government grants. Socialism for the rich. They deserve it because they think they create jobs.
Billionaires hate democracy. It costs them money. They have to pay political candidates to pass the laws that they write for them to pass. They have to bribe people. They have to pay for ads for their candidates so that voters know about them. They have to hire lawyers and campaign managers. They have to hire people to make catchy ads for their brand of candidate. They have to compel voters to vote for them.
Propaganda is expensive. That’s why the working class always loses. They can’t afford to pay for political candidates. They can’t afford to run for office. There’s only one working class Congressman - AOC. Joe hates her. Only because he’s been told to hate her. She’s got brown skin and she’s from New York and Puerto Rican. He’s got nothing in common with her. He’s looks at Bill O’Reilly and he’s an angry White male. They have something in common.
Joe’s lives paycheck to paycheck. Billionaires don’t. That’s because Joe votes for Billionaires, not working class people. Joe has dozens of very well paid propagandists to related to: Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Dan Bongino, Steve Bannon and a hundred others.
Vladimir Putin is one of the richest men in the world. He may have been the world’s first Trillionaire; we’ll never know for sure, but Russia was an oil and gas rich nation and Putin benefitted financially from this, as well as robbing the Russian economy in other ways. Putin and Trump are extremely close friends. Putin bailed out Trump in the 1990’s when Trump was going through many bankruptcies. Trump was in the process of building a Trump tower in Moscow prior to the 2016 election. Putin has also started to work with Elon Musk through Gazprombank.
They know Joe doesn’t like Billionaires, so they attack the most liberal they can find - George Soros and Bill Gates. They push racist and bizarre conspiracy theories about them, looping in hatred towards Jews and Antivax conspiracies. Funny thing is that neither of those are very liberal - they’re both Capitalist investors. Meanwhile, the Billionaires funding the anti-working class, anti-union laws operate in secret: Rupert Murdoch, Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk (the greatest welfare recipient in American history), Charles Koch, Peter Thiel, Sheldon Adelson, Ken Griffin, Larry Ellison, Stephen Schwarzman, Harlan Crow (supreme court owner), Rebekah Mercer, Timothy Mellon, Joe Ricketts, Richard Uihlein, and Isaac Perlmutter.
Joe doesn’t know that he is a victim of propaganda. Like the Devil fools people into sinning, the Billionaire fools the working class into voting for their candidates. They look like Joe. They’re White. They’re tough. They carry guns. They sound angry and all have the same complaints - it’s the immigrants coming for you job - the job you never worked: picking lettuce on a farm from 5:30 AM to 8:00 PM six days a week.
Joe has been shaped over the years into being closed minded and hating Democrats. While Fox News has conditioned Joe to associate being Republican with being manly tough, and independent, he also learned to associate Democrats with being weak, snooty, and needy.
Immigrants are a perfect enemy of the working class White man. Pick on the people who are poor and desperate, who have darker skin, and different religions. It lifts Joe up. Someone’s got it worse than Joe, and they’re a threat to Joe’s job. Joe goes to work and complains to his coworkers about the immigrants. They all listen to each complain, call them names. “They should deport them all.” “Those goddamn libtards and they’re open borders, what’s wrong with those people?”
Anti-immigration propaganda works extremely well around the world in all countries where White men are a majority. Billionaires fund right wing candidates to complain about immigrants. They’re complaints line up or match with the complaints on the news, radio, and podcasts. That’s no coincidence - billionaires run about 95% of all news outlets across all formats. Joe would have trouble hearing an opposing viewpoint if he tried.
Across the Western world, the Right Wing is making gains. It’s not because Joe thought it would be good for him. It’s because he has been told it will be, over and over again. When the economy starts to have problems, Joe latches onto the cause - fighting immigrants. Don’t let them in - deport them! The problem is that this will not help the economy. Joe won’t make more money. In fact, with less immigrants, Joe will probably make less money and possibly lose his job. Immigrants grow economies. However, the Right Wing won’t really do too much to prevent immigration, nothing drastic, nothing permanent. Right wing leaders know that they need cheap labor for construction, farming, and other areas. Immigrants are also big consumers of everyday products, foods and services, and they pay lots of taxes that help fund the endeavors of the wealthy. Immigrants also become soldiers to fight in wars for Billionaires.
Oil companies are behind the growth of the Right Wing. Behind the anti-immigration propaganda is the goal of keeping Oil on top of other alternatives, especially renewables. China is leading the world in renewables and plans on building dozens of nuclear power plants as well. China will be independent from Oil.
Meanwhile, the West will be stuck in the 1900’s dependent on Oil, transferring it’s wealth to the Middle East, Russia and a few corporations in the United States, mainly ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Conoco Phillips.
ExxonMobil is one of three large funders of Project 2025. They are supporting Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy American democracy and replace it with an Autocracy, or worse yet, a CEO leader as written about by Extreme Right Wing Ideologue, Curtis Yarvin - friend of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
Peter Thiel wants to build a city in Greenland under the startup, Praxis. Praxis was co-founded by Dryden Brown. They aim to establish a techno-libertarian city in Greenland to "restore Western Civilization." The project has secured $525 million in funding from investors, including those linked to Peter Thiel. However, the Greenlandic government has expressed opposition to selling land for such developments, and no formal agreements have been reached.
Propaganda is expensive. When you watch News shows from major Media, you have to remember that it’s coming from super rich people who have plans that don’t include you. They need you to believe in phony enemies so that you vote for their candidates who then pass their bills to take your money for their profit.
We all know that Russia helped Trump win in 2016, but they also did in 2024:
Right-Wing Influencers Unknowingly Involved in Propaganda Operation
In the months leading up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, an indictment unsealed in September 2024 revealed a sophisticated Russian-funded propaganda operation that involved several prominent right-wing influencers. These individuals were apparently unaware of the true source of their financial backing, were apparently inadvertently involved in disseminating content designed to sway American public opinion in favor of Russian interests.
The Tenet Media Connection
At the heart of this scheme was Tenet Media, a Tennessee-based company founded in 2022 by Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donovan. The company received nearly $10 million from Russia Today (RT), a state-controlled media outlet, with the funding facilitated by RT employees Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva. This substantial financial backing was used to produce and distribute political content strategically aimed at influencing U.S. voters.
The content was crafted to align with conservative narratives popular among American right-wing audiences, like anti-immigration rhetoric. By using Tenet Media's platform and the voices of well-known influencers, the operation effectively disguised state-sponsored propaganda as independent political commentary.
Conclusion: A Call to Wake Up and Reclaim Democracy
Joe is not the enemy. He’s the product of a system designed to manipulate him—designed to keep him loyal, obedient, and angry at the wrong people. He is bombarded with narratives crafted by billionaires who fund news networks, political candidates, and think tanks, all to protect their wealth and power. These narratives are repeated relentlessly, seeping into his consciousness, shaping his identity, and directing his anger away from those truly responsible for his struggles.
But Joe is not beyond hope. No one is. The truth is, Joe’s anger is real, his frustration justified, his struggle undeniable. He lives paycheck to paycheck, working hard and feeling disrespected, unheard, and left behind. His loyalty, though misdirected, is rooted in a deep desire to belong, to protect his family, and to preserve his way of life. These are not flaws; they are his humanity.
The challenge we face is not merely political; it’s a battle for truth, for empathy, for understanding. It’s about breaking through the fog of propaganda and revealing the real enemy—the billionaires who buy elections, who write the laws, who control the news, and who manufacture division to maintain their power.
The fight is not against Joe. The fight is for Joe. For his right to know the truth, for his right to think freely, for his right to vote in a democracy that serves people, not plutocrats.
We are at war—not just with Russia or China, but with powerful corporations and the billionaires who control them. It’s a war fought not with guns or armies but with ideas, narratives, and influence. And right now, we are losing because they have the money, the platforms, and the reach. But we have something more powerful: people.
To win, we must educate, empathize, and engage. We must bridge divides, dismantle propaganda, and create spaces for real conversation. We must challenge not just what people think but how they think. We must replace fear with curiosity, division with solidarity, and despair with hope.
It’s time to wake up. Not just Joe, but all of us. It’s time to see through the smoke and mirrors, to recognize who really benefits from our division, and to reclaim democracy for the many, not the few.
This isn’t just about winning elections. It’s about fighting for truth, for justice, and for a future where no billionaire can buy our voices or our votes. It’s about fighting for Joe, for his kids, and for every American who deserves better.
The war is here, and the stakes are high. But the outcome isn’t written. It’s up to us. It’s up to you. All of us as voters have a responsibility to think past the well crafted political ads and speeches and look at what politicians are doing - what bills are the writing and what’s in those bills, what votes do they cast, and who funds their campaigns.