16. I think the answer to #2 is (what passes for) our media.
Lookit how it's presently portraying the tea partiers as mainstream Americans out en force and contrast that to the much larger anti-war demonstrations (a position held by many more Americans) that go virtually unreported.
It's perception management. Even differences of race, religion and origin can be overcome as we saw in the 60s. But then, the Noise Machine was still on the drawing board.
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