[bitt]

"And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry."

[marktwain]

So, who is the author?

Ivey... but which Ivey?

His opinion sounds much like Victor Davis Hanson.

It is not Podesta writing, but Ivey.

[exDemMom]

The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly.

He is mistaken on this, by conflating the unaware with the non-compliant. The unaware are compliant; the aware gave us the fighter Trump.

[I want the USA back]

“unaware and compliant citizenry”
Has worked very well.

[Freedom4US]

Now you know what all the gazillion or so “think tanks” have been doing all these years.

And it also indirectly illustrates the role of the press. No wonder everybody hates them.

[ptsal]

After reading the original article, dive into the comments.

And so we see, just as a minor point, the blacklisting of Prager University videos at Progressive-activist corporation Google/YouTube. Can't have the unwashed masses hearing counter-narrative history, for example. It also explains the overall rewriting and teaching of history and the lack of basic economics education in high schools. So yes, mission accomplished.

[snip]I think his concern was not that "they were no longer blindly accepting the left's BS "messaging."", but rather, someone else had managed to co-opt the communication line to these befuddled masses. In other words, the are still mindlessly watching television, they've just suddenly realized there might be more than one channel.

[litehaus]

BTTT

[piasa]

The Center for American Progress received money from Russia via a kind of front company in the Bahamas...what was it, Sea Change?