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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 23, 2010, 08:15:26 PM
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Cetacea (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-23-10 02:06 PM
Original message
Right-wing mass message techniques (eg,"death panels")
The purpose of this thread is to list techniques you have observed and/or theories you may have regarding the effectiveness of the right-wing to convince large numbers of people of half-truths and outright lies.
I'll start. Please feel free to expand:
1) repetition and solidarity on any given talking point and novel ways of attracting media coverage. Phrases such as a "complete government take-over of health care" are repeated over and over again by numerous elected officials as well as TV pundits. Eventually it begins to sound like a fact.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7997001
Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-23-10 02:17 PM
Response to Original message
1. Cons/fundies/authoritarians etc often psychologically project. The criticism they hurl can be....
... self-applied; they attack the qualities they realize they themselves harbor
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
Cetacea (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-23-10 02:25 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. And then repackaged and broadcasted through media.
Good article. Thanks for the link.
Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-23-10 02:59 PM
Response to Reply #2
9. To dovetail on that, Authoritarian Personality & The 'F' Scale test
blah, blah, blah some article from some Yale person projects the Left mindset Blah, blah, blah
izzybeans (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-23-10 02:28 PM
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3. First rule, spread distrust in government no matter the cost and by any means necessary.
Edited on Tue Mar-23-10 02:31 PM by izzybeans
As a counter, the first rule for citizenship should be, never, EVER, vote for anyone who claims the government can't function. It's the exact parallel to hiring an employee who told you your company sucks during the job interview.
This is your government and you can make it work.
These DUmmies are way behind on their Projectionist union dues.
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izzybeans
First rule, spread distrust in government no matter the cost and by any means necessary.
As a counter, the first rule for citizenship should be, never, EVER, vote for anyone who claims the government can't function. It's the exact parallel to hiring an employee who told you your company sucks during the job interview.
This is your government and you can make it work.
Now that's major goofy.
#1, I don't trust the gov't. That you do automatically tells me you want some Big Brother to tell you how to conduct your daily life.
#2, any politician who tells me the gov't will work for me is a politician that has totalitarian dreams, which brings us back to #1.
#3, the gov't will never work as long as there are liberals who have input into the discussion, and since libs want to participate that bring me back to #1.
Look libs, you're simply untrustworthy, incompetent, authoritarians, and liars. Based upon your extreme ideology, it's who and what you are. I mean, you even want a "rule for citizenship" that says who one must vote for. Gov't can't be trusted because liberals can't be trusted.
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Compare the times under Carter (future former worst president) and Obama (future worst president) versus Reagan.
That is all.
Are you better off than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?