politics and the world as we know it

It only takes reading the newspaper for me to realize my need for wisdom and discernment in this day and age. I find that I get really frustrated with people who are ignorant about politics but always inserting their opinion. I will admit that I am opinionated, but I also will keep my mouth closed when I am uncertain or feel that what I have to say would just wreak havoc. I have made one discovery and that is that a lot of people in my generation look at the world through rose colored glasses. Oh sure, they know that there are people starving in Africa, they know about human trafficking, etc., but they fail to realize the corruption present in our own government, in our nation. And it greatly upsets me, bcuz I used to look through those same rose colored glasses. I used to think that we were always the "good guys", we were the "A team", I mean how could we not be. Everything we read in the media declares our innocence. But, what if? What if, there were other forces at work behind the scenes...manipulating...their own game of monopoly. Power and Greed are strong motivations. What if everything we see in the media today is filtered by the powerful, what if everything we have believed to be true is just a lie, propagated to make us more dependent on the government...They slowly lull us to sleep, they frighten us into giving up our very rights and liberties, they program us to think that the government is supposed to provide for our every need. We are moving from a democratic state to one of socialism. By the way, if you doubt the truth of what I have said thus far, just investigate it. Check out the Northwoods Operation, the Trilateral Commission, The Bilderberg Group. There are greater forces at work here than just a couple of guys attempting to get the presidency that's for sure.