Losing faith in politics ... or ... Losing faith in your fellow citizens

There was a very interesting discussion earlier today about "positive comments at DU", and some DUers commented about "losing faith/hope/interest in politics".

This makes me wonder.

If you are losing faith/hope/interest in politics, are you also AUTOMATICALLY losing faith/hope/interest in your fellow citizens?

A never automatically means B, no matter what the subject.

The founders tried to prevent the formation of political parties (they called them factions) that would only seek power rather than the good of the Republic.

See George Washington's farewell address.

They had more faith in the people back then.

They do not question, think, reason, or fight. They consume and regurgitate.

Obviously there are many exceptions, but the majority of Americans are lemmings.

The world will survive. Our species is optional.

Americans COULD save their country and species, but they won't.

"Aretha Bides" :P

Could we be "re-educated" to question, think, reason, or fight?

...that turned them into lemmings in the first place.

tell me more, tell me more.

How does one undo decades of propagandization without resorting to the same techniques used to get us to this point?

Talk about becoming the abyss....

This is done from the top-down, as to get a greater percentage of the populace on board with the aims and goals of the corporate/state nexus. An unfortunate byproduct of this is that it serves to cloud the ability to abide simple moral truths. From there, as we see, the herd polices itself according to the prevailing perceptions. This is a key component to the Divide and Rule stratagem. Human beings are no more or less intelligent or debased now than they were thousands of yrs ago. Nothing under the sun is new. It's just that the schemes used by elites to control the masses are more elaborate because of the technologies that one, serve our species beneficially, and two, also have the capacity to more effectively imprison minds.

in this society/state?

Nothing ever got changed in this country til the people did something about it...politicans are slow that way.

to bring about change.

And my fellow citizens are too easily duped and led around by the M$M.

What the country lacks is leaders being elected.

a loss of faith in fellow Democrats.

When the nominees our fellow Dems put forward are dissed as being Republican, or DINOs, it's also a diss on the voters.

because the average fellow citizen is neither a politician nor intensely involved in politics.

I keep getting the feeling that something, and I have no idea what, is diminishing Americans ability to think logically. We are continuing to move politics in increasingly destructive directions.
Why would we do that?

which keeps people from thinking logically.

correct. There is no way that fabricated truths can be successful in the battle for survival.

But, the religious component may be a factor in a larger array of factors contributing to what appears to be a steady decline in cognitive abilities of the American people. I'm suspicious of environmental hazards known and unknown.

You've heard the expression "mad as a hatter". It turned out that hatters were working with lead in the hat blocking process and the lead was making them crazy. The Romans were also "done in" by their
use of pewter eating utensils that contained lead.

Maybe it´s genetically altered food?

There's certainly a relationship between the two.