# Propaganda Redirects Economic Pain Toward Its Chosen Causes by Susan Kokinda > “The Empire ran a propaganda campaign against Americans, pinning the pain people felt in their pocketbooks on the Iran war and tariffs rather than on decades of globalist policy. For a variety of reasons, people fell for it.” > **— Susan Kokinda**, *The Saturday Wrap-Up, November 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 00:47–01:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=47s). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** Kokinda identifies the alleged propagandist, the American public, the economic pain being interpreted, the causes emphasized, the policy history displaced, and the campaign’s asserted success; [recording, 00:47–01:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=47s). Direct contiguous passage preserving her political characterization as her claim. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Susan Kokinda|Susan Kokinda]] - [[wiki/Deception|Deception]] - [[wiki/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The Empire ran a propaganda campaign against Americans, pinning the pain people felt in their pocketbooks on the Iran war and tariffs rather than on decades of globalist policy. For a variety of reasons, people fell for it.” — Susan Kokinda, The Saturday Wrap-Up, November 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-susan-kokinda-propaganda-redirects-economic-pain-toward-its-chosen-causes ```