"That's not who we are."
How much do you know about the techniques used in propaganda?
If you're like most Americans you don't know jack about it. In fact just reading the word "propaganda" makes you automatically reject any information that follows--because "propaganda" is so last-century, eh? It's nothing but a cold-war scare term, conspiracy-theory stuff.
Plus, "everyone knows" that only dumb, gullible people fall for propaganda. And that's not you, right?
You wish. But in fact propaganda exploits well-known psychological traits that everyone has--traits like wanting to be part of the "cool kids." Decades ago it was called "the bandwagon effect." Today no one even knows what that means, but the psychological drive to be one of the "cool kids" is still with us.
One of the ways cunning politicians use this to get you to support their policies is to imply that "everyone" supports (or opposes) "X." That's all it takes. Cuz if "everyone" supports (or is opposed to) X, then since "everyone" is presumably a good American, anyone who wants to be a good American must agree that X is a great or a bad idea, depending on the pol's position.
Of course politicians are more clever than that: saying "everyone" often causes listeners to think, "Wait, how did he or she come up with that?" So when a pol wants to get you to condemn some policy they don't like, they'll say "That's not who we are."
This is much more effective than saying "everyone condemns X," since the listener isn't moved to ask "How did he/she come up with that?" But it's the same exact tactic. And below are 46 examples of Democrat emperor Hussein Obama using this. And these are just the ones they had video of!
Ask yourself: Would he have used this so many times if it didn't work?
Look at the number of times Pelosi uses this. Because it works. People who consider themselves "good Americans" agree with this almost every time.
If you're like most Americans you don't know jack about it. In fact just reading the word "propaganda" makes you automatically reject any information that follows--because "propaganda" is so last-century, eh? It's nothing but a cold-war scare term, conspiracy-theory stuff.
Plus, "everyone knows" that only dumb, gullible people fall for propaganda. And that's not you, right?
You wish. But in fact propaganda exploits well-known psychological traits that everyone has--traits like wanting to be part of the "cool kids." Decades ago it was called "the bandwagon effect." Today no one even knows what that means, but the psychological drive to be one of the "cool kids" is still with us.
One of the ways cunning politicians use this to get you to support their policies is to imply that "everyone" supports (or opposes) "X." That's all it takes. Cuz if "everyone" supports (or is opposed to) X, then since "everyone" is presumably a good American, anyone who wants to be a good American must agree that X is a great or a bad idea, depending on the pol's position.
Of course politicians are more clever than that: saying "everyone" often causes listeners to think, "Wait, how did he or she come up with that?" So when a pol wants to get you to condemn some policy they don't like, they'll say "That's not who we are."
This is much more effective than saying "everyone condemns X," since the listener isn't moved to ask "How did he/she come up with that?" But it's the same exact tactic. And below are 46 examples of Democrat emperor Hussein Obama using this. And these are just the ones they had video of!
Ask yourself: Would he have used this so many times if it didn't work?
Look at the number of times Pelosi uses this. Because it works. People who consider themselves "good Americans" agree with this almost every time.
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