Americans Deceived?
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Americans Deceived?
No, not at all deceived, just not well informed. Americas government refrains itself from telling the population the entire truth considering major contemporary political issues, which ultimately leads to confusion as to what rumors are true and which arent, due to the suspicious actions that Americas speakers take.
It primarily starts with the president and other politicians making an announcement about an imperative issue at hand, but before they tell America the whole truth they censor some contents or change the truth a little because all congress asks each other is, “Would this disrupt America?” and similar questions so on and so forth.
As soon as this happens, rumors and theories of conspiracy are developed and Americas society hears nothing but these malevolent accusations towards the presidency. Citizens therefore are left confounded and are tugged to one side of the story and then to the other until they are left with nothing else to believe. Certain questions are upheld, such as: “Why doesnt the government just tell the whole truth to begin with; why is it that we cannot handle the truth?”. Censorship does not enable us to make smart decisions; on the other hand, it just allows us to make rash accusations such as: “If America has done nothing wrong then why censor the bad news out, are they really doing something wrong?”
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On the other hand, there might b reasons as to why the government censors most of its news. One of these reasons might be because of “national security”. If the government were to release more than enough information, we might be threatened by people who take advantage of the situation.
Therefore, censorship should not be used as a mechanism to keep America under control, for it only proves to keep America violent and not even