Why is it so easy to cow us into war?

[whatchamacallit]

Blind faith? Blinding fear? If the first casualty of war is the truth, how many times do we have to view the smoldering truth wreckage in our rearview mirrors before we stop letting politicians and their handmaidens in the media drive us down this road? Invariably, half of what they tell us ends up being bullshit in retrospect, and yet... Is it an ingrained deference for institutions and authority, from all those early years pledging allegiance and reciting whitewashed history from school texts? It's crazy that despite the endless loop of buying and buyers remorse, one way or another the PTB always get enough support to get their war on.