Propaganda: The Bread and Butter of the Progressive Left

January 25, 2019 By Jeffrey Folks

I've just googled "Russian collusion" and come up with 24 million results. This despite the fact that no credible evidence exists of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. How is it possible that nearly 60% of Americans doubt the president's innocence when the Special Counsel himself has come up with no proof of collusion? The answer is propaganda.

Twentieth-century totalitarian regimes were masters of propaganda. Lenin set the tone when he said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Stalin's rewriting of history is well known and factually documented. Stalin ordered the Katyn massacre, in which 22,000 Polish officers and other prominent Poles were executed, and it was covered up and denied until 1990. In these denials, the Soviets employed every sort of propaganda, including the claim that the massacre was carried out by German troops.

Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda chief, was quoted as saying, "A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth." That was Stalin's approach to the Katyn massacre, and it was Goebbels's approach as well. Hitler wrote in Mein Kamp that propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."

Present-day extremists rely on Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, and Alinsky's tactics differ little from those of his predecessors. Focus on "a few points and repeat them over and over."

 That is Alinsky's key lesson, and it is one that every progressive follows today, even if some may be unaware that Alinsky was paraphrasing Hitler. Alinsky's 13th "rule" summarized his technique: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

 Hitler picked his target, froze it, personalized it, and polarized it." That target was "the Jews." So did Stalin, Mao, Castro, and every other radical on the left or right..............Read more