Progressive Era post #6

    We hear time and time again about why we are going to war with some other country be it "To stop communism!" or "To stop the terrorists who attacked us!" but we never hear about the reasons why we shouldn't, let alone the voices of people who are looking into the war and where the funds are going, the real reasons why we are there in the first place be it oil, making money (because war is very profitable) or even just getting a leg up on someone. 

    People that spoke up about war would just get pushed aside from social media, get shadow banned or actually banned, and sometimes even just punished if they reveal the real reasons why the government decides to go to war. Anti war efforts are there to just not put us into something that either doesn't need to happen or shouldn't happen just to stop the violence.

In 2001, the anti war effort soon became a crime, and was considered to be propaganda, enough to go ahead and put someone in prison for saying "We really shouldn't be at war with these people." And even though we very well may be able to come to some kind of conclusion via conversation or non violent methods, these past few years have just been jumping the gun to the violent approaches and totally skipping over the talk it over aspect.

    This is also something that is not limited to the US. Other countries like China are infamous for doing the same, be it Tiananmen Square or just hushing people for speaking out.

    So why do we have to go to such lengths to find obscure information on anti war voices? Put simply, it's probably because the government doesn't want us to know what's really going on, and floods the information systems about all the reasons why we should got to war and all the "benefits" there are to it.