The Power of Propaganda By Hank Silverberg I have a friend on Facebook who is educated and in general, a nice person. She's a relative of a good friend and we have been communicating over the last few years during much of the Trump Administration. She has totally bought into much of the Republican propaganda that has been raging since 2015. Every time she sees something she thinks is new, she sends me a direct message trying to prove once again that President Biden is bad and Democrats are ruining the country. The latest one she passed on, though a few months old, is the claim from much of the GOP that a spike in the murder rate in some major American cities is the fault of the Democrats who run those cities, and the only way to fix it is to get rid of them. Crime has always been a political issue. Richard Nixon used his "law and order" theme to help him win the presidency in 1968 after a particularly violent period in our history that included some anti-war protests a