Judith Miller and the liberal rag she once proudly worked for the bastion of journalistic truthyness THE N.Y.T. was one of the PRIME PROPAGANDA pushers for the illegal war in IRAQ claiming that Saddam Hussein was at the cusp of getting the "Yellow Cake" critical for building a nuclear weapon. Any thinking rationale person that read such b.s. knew it was hogwash but because it was peddled by the venerable writer and newspaper the March for war simply sailed by unencumbered and unimpeded and was readily propagated through the masses of the world.
Again, Western mainstream media (MSM) which includes both liberals and conservatives, both pushed for Iraq war propaganda, it wasn't exclusively "liberal media" or NYT that pushed this Iraq war line. Fox, and other conservative outlets pushed Iraq war propaganda too.... so basically ALL Western MSM pushed Iraq war propaganda, it wasn't a liberal vs. conservative thing.
The [Liberals] are far more insidious and dangerous because they say, write, and supposedly stand for all the right things until you realize that your shitty life just got even more shittier than before but at least you got gay rights, gender rights, gender fluidity b.s. are now enshrined in the daily confines of social media and society which means the arc of history bends towards greater bullshitquality and justice.
... and life is shitter than before under conservatives too. Atleast Liberals give you a vision of a better America, the conservatives just give you lower-taxes for the rich and a bit more gov't de-regulation. What vision of America has conservatives offered so far? Nothing. Zero. Nada.
I don't mean to disparage MLK Jr. Famous speech but the notion that Liberals are that much better than regular conservatives (not the batshit re..ds) is down right hilarious.
Liberals in US politics typically refer to 'radical left-wing'.
So it's really not fair to compare the 'radical left-wing' with only centrist/establishment conservatives, while ignoring the batshit crazy far-right wingers.
That's just cherry-picking your comparison.
American Civil rights movement was forced upon the American white establishment by the oppressed African Americans and because of the geopolitical and ideological struggles between America and the evil Soviets America had to swallow a bitter pill in order for their glorious propaganda of equality and all that jazz remains true to it's words. It was done out of politics of necessity nothing more, nothing less; a tool, a means to an eventual end.
The Jim Crow laws and slavery was justified under religious ideology and 'God'. There is nothing Soviet 'You Bad Guys' propaganda would have override the belief that slavery and racism was 'justified' under a religious doctrine. American racists wouldn't even care about Soviet propaganda since 'God' defense overrides everything in their small world and narrow-minded world.
Civil rights movement succeeded due to protesting for equal rights without using violence.... the same strategy worked for Gandhi in India and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Attributing it to 'Soviet geopolitics' really downplays the achievements of black leadership in civil rights movement.
