There are a lot of reasons for anti-war voices that get buried. For one, it helps stimulate the economy. America has one of the largest weapon supplies on the planet. Compared to its population, America has more guns per person. With this, they can use basic supply and demand to sell guns. As long as there is a conflict in motion, America profits off of all the war without taking part. They can even play both sides to gain maximum profit off the guns.
Even if America is actively involved in the war, they can
use pro-war voices to fuel factories to produce things. These things can actively stimulate the economy
to help the amount of money in circulation.
The increase in production can even help prolong a depression in
America.
Another thing that there are so many pro-war voices in media
is to help their campaign for re-election.
If there are so many pro-war voices in circulation, then most of the population
will be pro war as well. This will cause
many of the acts that they pass that are pro-war will be viewed popularly among
the public. This is called skewing the Overton
Window. This will help him win
re-election because then the policies that he passes are popular.
The last reason that there are no anti-war voices is because
they often are viewed as anti-American. America
has the potential to be viewed as the bad guys by its own citizens which could hurt
American patriotism. There are many beautiful
places that have been permanently destroyed by American battles. If the masses got hold of how badly the places
that America struck than there would be many anti-war voices. A good comparison is how America news casted
the Vietnam war. By viewing the war that
went on, they viewed the horrors and protested.
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