In the waning months of negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran, nearly a two-thirds majority of the American public were supporting the idea of a nuclear pact. When the deal was signed a still-strong majority of 56% were supportive of the pact, despite politicians already preparing to make it a major political issue.
Then the ad campaigns started. Various Israel Lobby groups, notably AIPAC, started bankrolling a lobbying and media campaign that cost tens of millions of dollars, putting advertisements demanding opposing to the deal across television and newspapers, making misleading statements and at times flat out lying about Iran’s intentions.
It has worked too, with the latest poll showing only 28% of Americans still comfortable backing the exact same deal, while 57% are opposed to the idea. 58% say they believe it makes the world less safe, which is of course what they’ve been hearing on TV.
The anti-pact ad campaign appears to be rapidly becoming a case study in how to buy American opinion on an issue, and has been all the easier because many of the presidential primary candidates are parroting the ads, hoping to secure the funding from the lobbying groups and their deep pockets.
Interestingly, when polls actually lay out the terms of the deal, the American public generally still supports the pact. When the poll simply asks about the pact, however, people seem to default back to the scare campaign and oppose it.
While it was initially seen as virtually impossible for the US Congress to get a two-thirds majority to block the pact, the malleability of the American public in these polls will make it a lot easier for “undecided” Congressmen to sell their vote on the matter, and the highest bidders seem uniformly against diplomacy.
The polls suggest the public is by and large being led around by the nose on the issue, and is willing to believe whatever they hear in commercials, and not asking questions about the agendas of groups which in many cases are overtly trying to foment a US-Iran war.
Sure, there have been and are a bunch of really smart americans, but an overwhelming majority appear to be utterly stupid. The fact that they cannot see how israel and its toadies are clearly against american interests, is ample proof of that.
I wonder when the much touted downfall of evil empire will start to manifest itself clearly and solidly. That is, when every other country on earth will give the finger to empire, and do whatever business they feel is in their best interest.
It has already started – started when Bushco illegally invaded a sovereign nation and then thumbed their noses at the Geneva conventions.
Most Americans are just yo-yos.
American people are flying by the wind, depending from which TV channel they get their advertised political understanding, last week the very same majority of American people were forir the Iran deal, but this week they are not, but there is weeks to come, so we wait until next week.
Jason – you gotta stop reading and believing these bogus WaPo neocon/likud polls! Telephone polls with 1600 people with questions formulated to get the answers they want to hear. How about a poll that asks people to choose between the Iran deal or WW3? What do you think people will answer?
We gotta stop paying attention to this Jewish media, and the Israeli occupied congress, and all the treasonous Israel-firsters that want us to go fight Israel's enemies and take the focus away from Israel's war crimes and their clandestine nukes.
Screw all those bastards! It is time to take our country back. I want to see us go to every town meeting that these treasonous politicians go to and challenge them in public about their dual loyalties and demand to know why they hold public office if they are going to put the interests of Israel above those of the US. Name 'em and shame 'em this election cycle.
Folks – we are many and they are few. Enough is enough!
"Name 'em and shame 'em this election cycle. "
Excellent idea. I've been advocating this approach for years.
To become a public thought controller it’s simple, you just use an illusion of good to hide your evil intent. But be careful that your good sucker-bait is something the public will fall for hook, line and sinker.
Take our voting majority for example, they being the educated upper half of society, surely they know that Israel is of great benefit to our economy in the way it maximizes profit for our oil industry and war materials industry. So, the Zionist illusion being that God wants us to be enriched upon the misery of the Palestine people, because Muslims are such anti-Christian people, such sucker-bait is most perfect as most Christians believe that God wants his Christians to fight his wars of righteousness and rid the world of evil.
Problem is, God is a pacifist and the Promised Land shall go only to those who are such pacifists that when enslaved by occupation, they do nothing more violent then throw a few stones.
Americans now understand who pushed for war against Saddam ,how they did,and how they hid their palm prints .
The weird thing is that a larger proportion of Israelis than Americans want the Iran deal to go through, It is like the very Zionist Dad of a friend of mine who keeps marveling that, "the Christian Evangelicals love Israel more than the Jews do." It is a marvel – can't tell if it is the truly astonishing level of American ignorance or a truly marvelous job of selling shoddy goods.
"the Christian Evangelicals love Israel more than the Jews do."
-that's some slick propaganda. Christian Zionists in the end want to see Israelis transformed into Christians, and if you ask any Jew, they hold CZ's in complete contempt. It's more like a mutual parasitic relationship they both engage in. Where's the honesty?
I'll take Buddha over those schemers any day of the week.
They "love" Israel for a truly malevolent reason and are not concerned that they may take the entire world down with them…because they know what is best for the human race.
Spot on–Chomsky!
Superstitious Zionist Christsins are the underpining of US war monger I g. A comfortable 40 million with their mega churches are bombarded with Zionist propaganda expertly mixed with spiritual and religious claims. Hallucinogenic writings from Revelations related to Roman rule are shoved down the throat of literate but supestitious American population in mega doses. A new reincarnation for each aggression and war against the defenseless people of the Middke East expertly manipulated by Israel Firsters.
To our US political leaders and majority of its degreed citizens; in the words of Solon to his political contemporaries;” Each of you may be singularly bright, but as a group you are a pack of fools”.