Look through propaganda

I recently watched a political ad on TV about a man from an Eastern European country that he said socialism had ruined, and that we were headed in the same direction. Let’s check the facts.

The fat cats on Wall Street – lobbyists, special interest groups and the military-industrial complex that are now in control of our government – will never allow this country to become socialist because they would lose their wealth and power. This political ad reeks of Karl Rove and the Republican propaganda machine.

I can only guess what they will come up with next. Maybe they will dig up Sen. Joe McCarthy and have him tell us that there are Communists hiding under our beds waiting to take over the country.

Propaganda only works if the people are gullible enough to believe it. The people of Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s were duped by government propaganda, and their country was reduced to rubble.

Please don’t let that happen to our country. Look through the smoke and mirrors for the truth.

Rick Johnson

Spokane