So, Good evening. It's Tuesday, October 24th. Welcome to a new episode of

System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday

at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull the free speech alternative to

YouTube tonight. In mid 2016 the Hillary Clinton campaign released its first campaign ad, complete with sinister

music and shadowy images and a deep baritone voice full of innuendo, explicitly stating that Donald Trump

harbored disloyalties in a secret allegiance to Moscow.

And I assumed wrongly, as it turns out,

that most Americans would recoil from such a familiar and

discredited script copied as it so obviously was from the most extreme

witch hunts that came to define the notorious McCarthy era.

The same thing happened when Russia invaded Ukraine, and I assume that Americans would

instantly recognize that they were being subjected to the same template of war propaganda that has induced them to support so many wars

over the last several decades, moralizing fairy tales about how the US is merely a

benevolent power which yet again is involving itself in a war for purely selfless

reason simply attempting to defend democracy from the dark malevolent

forces of despotism. But this was the same script that induced Americans to support the invasion of Iraq,

and that war advocates the media insisted that the U.S. fights wars to spread democracy, even

as our government openly funds in arms the world's most

repressive tyrants from Saudi Arabia to Egypt meant I assumed that Americans

would not fall this time for the same primitive and tawdry propaganda.

But the reason I was wrong in both instances with my expectations is because I overestimated

the extent to which we remember and take with us the lessons from history.

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