No one is "selling" us a point of view. We are perfectly capable of forming one all by ourselves. We, at least here in Europe, have access to not only all your news networks as well as for networks from a lot of other places (which you don't nor care about). From here you look like a theocratic state not that different from the Taliban, where religion dictates what people can and cannot do. The voices of reason get completely drowned but wacko rhetorics, which are against reason, science and facts. And people THERE actually buy it! Just look at Sarah Palin and her following. Who is being sold what? You used to have a lot of very cleaver people able to accomplish amazing things but these are becoming less and less while the rest of the world has left you far behind. The fact you don't look outside explains it. I will bet you (you I mean generally) can't name a single European politician or a single political issue in any country in Europe. You more likely can't as you don't read anything other than English. Before telling us we are being sold, just think about what you really know about us.