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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"He's going to lean in to culture war the more threatened he feels" - Chris Hayes
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He's going to lean in to culture war the more threatened he feels and it will get far far uglier.
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Kilgore Trout?
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"Sir, your Cabinet is falling apart & Mueller is closing in"
"What if I banned transgendereds from the military via twitter cliffhangers?"
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)maryellen99
(3,791 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)All-In
(312 posts)Show the pee pee tape!
WoonTars
(694 posts)If that tape exists, please let it 'leak' soon!!!
This is exactly where we're headed.
Stand by to be appalled. You haven't even imagined the nefarious wonders that are coming.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)employed classic propaganda techniques, pretty much gleaned from the father of modern marketing, Edward Bernays:
(i) name-calling
(ii) Glittering generalities
(iii) transfer
(iv) testimonial
(v) Plain-folk
(vi) Card-stacking
(vii) Bandwagon.
Each of these devices makes an appeal to feelings rather than to reason. They rest upon the premise that emotion or feeling has certain strategic advantages over the appeal to reason. These propaganda devices need not be used singly; they are usually employed in combination.
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So easy to use on a gaggle of ignorant, hateful rubes, so insecure they need a scapegoat for their loserdom
Then comes a carnival barker who promises them a panacea that only the most benighted mark would swallow
Too bad there were tens of millions
The ones who weren't fooled are the same
ones who fooled mostly the same crowd of suckers since reconstruction
Only the sophistication of the messaging has changed
Fwiw, Bernays was the nephew of Freude
leftstreet
(36,119 posts)Come on Crooked Trump, do it!
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