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SilverBoat -> RE: Proof cry-baby-cons aren`t happy about our good news..... (2/8/2012 6:48:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
I don't think the problem that's highlighted here is melodramatic adverts that look and sound like political campaigns. It's political campaigns that look and sound like melodramatic adverts. It's only because electoral campaigns have become so full of overblown sentiment and so devoid of depth of thought that people could confuse adverts with political campaigns.
In general, I'd agree with your observation, but the campaigns didn't become so full of psychosocially manipulative rhetoric simply by accident or incident. The 'neo-conservative' rightwing political organizations have spent hundred-billions on laundered-money think-tanks that produce most of the sloganeered propaganda, and a trillion or more on acquiring control of all the major news-media outlets. How many hard-core rightwing radio, television, print, etc networks have been built up during the last few decades? And the whole time, they've been attacking all other media as leftwing?
(Sure, the liberal groups have done some of that too, but they're often pollyannish idiots, and haven't put in a tithe of what the 'conservatives' invested. The leftwing 'network' consists of five (yes, just five) obscure radio stations with a few million in total annual funding.)
Much of the campaign strategies and statements are intended to confuse people, to push psychological triggers, to channel emotions of fear, anger, hatred, etc into causing distorted perceptions and irrational decisions. That doesn't 'just-happen', it's deliberate, calculated, and arguably sociopathic.
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