Sort of an opposite approach to the Goebbels method. Instead of top down control, allow various flavors of hate to vomit their message and see what resonates. It worked, because now you’ve got hate groups and individuals who might otherwise not be on exactly the same page as their fellow bigots onboard for the common cause, sometimes in the face of their own self-interest or contrary to what their own “beliefs” should push for (ie Latinos for Trump, Zionist neo-Nazis). They didn’t have to indoctrinate people into hate, they just had to make sure haters knew they were all welcome. And most of the haters will never get what they want, their personal desires are irrelevant. They’ll get deported, ground under, discarded like Noem and Bondi, or driven into poverty by the people they enabled because whatever their personal goals, all that mattered was their emotions were a path to power.
I see it more like a new frontier opened up and everybody gathered their supplies and such and headed west.
It was a race to be the first one to set camp and claim land. End of the day it was a numbers game. The left didn’t put up the numbers and in some cases they worked against themselves. This generation saw a new frontier and went “bah” but now those frontiers are where young men and women are getting their information, beliefs and ideas from. They will one day be the next general making decisions. How long until MAGA looks plain Jane compared to the people being raised today
Being middle aged is a weird position to be in. The boomers have refused to let go of their positions of power and have both their “news” outlets plus some level of digital adoption. The youngest generation that’s now adults grew up with digital in their hands before they could read. We may have ridden the divide between analog and digital, but we definitely dropped the ball when it came to voting out career politicians from the silent film era and failing to realize how influential online cults of personality could be in shaping the youth. It’s worth analyzing where we went wrong, what we can adopt, and what shouldn’t be adopted because grasping at what made them successful and trying to copy it is reactionary and desperate. I do think we really, really need to take one last shot at democracy (if we still have it) and run the dinosaurs not just out of their elected seats, but out of the behind scenes positions of power that dictate what “left” is in the US, because what they’re trying to maintain is left only because the right is fascist.
It’s cheaper to lie than tell the truth, easier to lie to the right than left.
Hate sells. Education is boring. Sadly.
But we hate Trump, bigotry, racism.
This can’t be the answer. What is the difference?
Righteous hatred vs fear based hatred. It’s the difference between a John Brown and a Klansman, both hated but the type of hate was different.
The Young Turks are conservative ?
From what I read, the report looked at popularity in general and was not limited to just conservative media.
Prosecute them all like in nuremberg
10 hangings sure cleared up fascism in Europe. /s
But - yeah - I’m onboard with this suggestion.
Who? For what?
Joe Rogan and the like for spreading propaganda
😆 as funny as that would be, not sure what the charge would be.
Would totally love to see some real politicians step up and demand investigations and charges.
There are none. Fox managed to “convince” SCOTUS that “freedom of the press” was to be taken literally. They can outright lie on air with no preprocussions. You would have to find evidence that these propagandist are taking money directly from Russia or Israel, which you won’t since they use US shell corps.
