US successfully repressed or ultimately free?

[RadioRaheem84]

Michael Parenti went into a notion that I found quite profound. He was quoting a Black Panther when he mentioned that the US is the most successfully repressed nation in the world. What he meant is that usually repression of dissent in third would nations is expressed in brutal force, which means that repression of dissent and propaganda is not working, so they have to bring on the blugeon.

Chomsky touched on similar elements saying that he is always in awe of how strong propaganda is in this country. He used the example of how citizens in this country are quick to believe that little nations like Cuba, Iraq or Grenada can be huge threats to a juggernaut like the US.

It's also amazing at how much of an alternate reality the media is allowed to construct, reaching far beyond anything dreamed of by other elites in the West.

What do you guys think? I am not doing any justice to Parenti's or Chomsky's excellent insight into political repression but I hope I at least tried.

[ContrarianLemming]

I agree with them, the US citizen is free to choose his or her ruler, the US citizen has been succesfully convinced that they are free and equal to the rulers. It is the most austoundingly succesful piece of institutional deception in history undoubtably. The propaganda system of the US is amazing in it's scope, in it's half truths and unreprted actions.
Like the above says, how many americans actively feared Iraq or Cuba or Libya? People were actually convinced that these nations were threats that could end there freedom.