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By Vichara

And now a commercial message from our sponsor…Not feeling good about yourself? You don’t feel like you are fitting in with the rest? Well our product will make you look good, feel good and give you all that you need. Sounds familiar? The majority of commercials that bombard us are meant to make you feel like if you don’t have this thing that you are not good enough and missing out. You need to buy this thing they are pushing at you or else. By the time they graduate from high school an average child will have seen 360,000 commercials. 360,000 times they are told they are not good enough. Let’s have our own non-televised message to each other, broadcasting 24 / 7, that you are good enough and between us we have everything we need…and you don’t need to make a call in the next 10 minutes or send three easy payments!

fifth column • \FIFTH-KAH-lum\ • noun
: a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders

Example Sentence:
In the 1950s the Communist Party was denounced in the United States as a fifth column, and many people were unjustly blacklisted as Communist sympathizers.

Did you know?
"Fifth column," a translation of the Spanish "quinta columna," was inspired by a boast by rebel general Emilio Mola during the Spanish Civil War. Mola predicted Madrid would fall as four columns of rebel troops approaching the city were joined by another hidden column of sympathizers within it. In an October 1936 article in The New York Times, William Carney described those secret rebel supporters as the "fifth column," and English speakers seized upon the term. It gained widespread popularity after Ernest Hemingway used it in the title of a 1938 book, and it was often applied (along with derivative forms such as "fifth columnism" and "fifth columnist") to Nazi supporters within foreign nations during World War II.