The government manipulates facts, as does Fox, MSBNC, and so on. They're very skilled at it too. People under 30 in the U.S. have grown up in a conservative era. They don't remember what it was like in the 70s and earlier when the country was in a more liberal and volatile era. They've gotten comfortable what the government tells them. People like Moore are needed once in a while to jolt the general public out the patriotic malaise that's been instilled in them by the government. .