We Were Warned in 1963: Has Communist Ideology Overtaken America?

[xfrodobagginsx]

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[Nipples_Mcgee1]

*reported*

 

[RobDownSouth]

Ah, Cleon Skousen....Glen Beck's favorite pseudo-intellectual.
Talk about a blast from teh past!

 

[hsnh]

What Yuri Bezmenov said.

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

Ah, Cleon Skousen....Glen Beck's favorite pseudo-intellectual.
Talk about a blast from teh past!

So, are these things happening or not? That is the question.

 

[hsnh]

Soviet propaganda operated mainly at the level of ideology.

Mao's Cultural Revolution operated at the level of emotions.
Mostly the working class and youth.

Nowadays one sees more often Maoist type of attempts at mass mobilization. On both sides.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

So, are these things happening or not? That is the question.

Some have, many haven't. But I'll grant you it's hard to believe we were so gullible as to prefer "peaceful coexistence" to all out atomic war.

Meanwhile, there is no more East and West Germany, and many former Soviet satellite nations are now self-governing. And Russia and China itself have gravitated substantially to free market trade and investment at least as much as the United States has gravitated to increased central government control.

In any event, as long as you insist on cowering down there in the bunker with Kimmy Schmidt, I hope you are at least getting a little nookie on the side.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Soviet propaganda operated mainly at the level of ideology.

Mao's Cultural Revolution operated at the level of emotions.
Mostly the working class and youth.

Nowadays one sees more often Maoist type of attempts at mass mobilization. On both sides.

The use of emotions relies heavily upon an ideological foundation.

If we hadn't raised a generation of kids thinking responsibility, justice and wealth were a communal things to be shared by all/groups/demographics/personal identities, then set them loose in corporate feudalistic M'aricuh..... there would be no emotional trigger to get at them with.

What Yuri Bezmenov said.

Yep....it's more than probable that we have lost the culture war.

 

[hsnh]

The use of emotions relies heavily upon an ideological foundation.

If we hadn't raised a generation of kids thinking responsibility, justice and wealth were a communal things to be shared by all/groups/demographics/personal identities, then set them loose in corporate feudalistic M'aricuh..... there would be no emotional trigger to get at them with.

But Trump too used a lot of populist tactics.
BTW: I just came across this fascinating trivia:


That Nazi propaganda during ww2 was in fact modeled after American propaganda used in ww1 (the CPI "The Committee of Public Information")

The CPI was created by president Woodrow Wilson to convice the American Public to agree to go to war, and it drew heavily on the work of Edward Bernay (Sigmund Freud's nephew) and Walter Lipman.

They used a lot of tactics that appealing to Public's emotion, because according to one of their political analysts Count von Bernstorff : The outstanding characteristic of the average American is rather a great, though superficial, sentimentality." "The failure of German propaganda -at the time- in America was due to the fact that it emphasized logic over passion."



It makes you wonder: if they were so sophisticated and organized so many decades ago, how good they must be now. All of them.

 

[Hard_Rom]

It all started with the fluorine, man! That's when, we like, gave up our personal rights to the government. Think about it, man. Just think about it.

 

[Nipples_Mcgee1]

It all started with the fluorine, man! That's when, we like, gave up our personal rights to the government. Think about it, man. Just think about it.

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