Reddit mentions of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century

Yes, there are plenty of "paid shills," plenty of voter rights abuses, etc. Your mistakes are as follows:

1. Believing OP was a paid conversation steerer as opposed to just some fucking guy.
   
   
2. Believing you, and perhaps your buddies/kindred spirits on whatever dark corners of the web you frequent, are the only "enlightened" ones aware of the problems in our world.
   
   
3. Believing that there has ever been a "pure" thought completely free of influence by externalities.
   
   
4. Believing that the thought leadership effects of propaganda/advertising are some kind of secret that only you are aware of as opposed to a well-researched topic of study.
   
   
5. Believing there's a "real" reality.
   
   
6. Believing there is such a thing as a global cabal -- or, in other words, believing that every powerful bad actor in the world has the competence, willingness, and resources to work in concert together on some kind of unified world domination plan. Not everything about the world we live in is an intended consequence, you know.
   
   
7. Sincerely believing that "divide" is spelled "devide"
   
   How about instead of reading conspiracy theories online -- which could possibly be posted by anyone, even these scary bots you refer to -- who don't you read an actual book from a credible source? Try:
   
   

• Edward Bernays' Propaganda
  
  
• Sherry Turkle's Alone Together
  
  
• Stan Goff's Full Spectrum Disorder

Stan Goff explores this concept a little bit in his book Full Spectrum Disorder. Be forewarned though, he is pretty jaded by his military experience and might be a little much for you. It does however force you look at your experiences in a very different light. Good read.

Just wanted to jump in with some specifics. The US military is mostly white but still has a good 30.3% who self-identify as minority: http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2012_Demographics_Report.pdf

However that's total military, and video games typically focus on special operations units. While demographic data on those is hard to come by thanks to the Department of Defense, anecdotal evidence suggests it is almost entirely white owing to systemic racism: http://www.amazon.com/Full-Spectrum-Disorder-Military-American/dp/1932360123/ and http://www.amazon.com/Hideous-Dream-Soldiers-Memoir-Invasion/dp/1887128638/ by former US Army Sergeant Stan Goff expand on this.