re: #42 Fozzie Bear

It’s influenced the fabric of American culture profoundly for the better part of a century. It’s just that, before the last 30 years or so, it has been used to maintain cohesion, rather than foster division. The “duck and cover” videos of the 50’s, Rosie the Riveter, “I’m just a bill”, etc. were all propaganda.

It’s just that, like any tool, propaganda has constructive applications, and destructive ones. But lets not pretend that the US hasn’t been very good at producing quality propaganda for a very long time. It’s for whom, and to what end, that has changed.

For example of “Good” Propaganda look no further than everyone’s favorite kid book author Theodor Geisel … as true today as it was 70 years ago.