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Friday, August 7, 2020

Party, Propaganda, and Revolutionary Silence

It is time to speak the truth about the reality of what the country is experiencing. 

By Richard Higgins • August 4, 2020

The American people are enduring a withering bombardment of propaganda from a corporate-owned media that is beholden to financial interests, including interests that benefit from legacy trade policies with Communist China.  Propaganda is a weapon of warfare abroad, and propaganda is a weapon of tyranny at home. 
 
Propaganda works. 
 
The tactics used and the target selection determines its overall level of effectiveness. Today, propaganda tactics are ubiquitous in the 24/7 social media-fueled frenzy. Today’s target is the American people. Fear amplification and false expectations are the messages. Divide and conquer is the ethos.  Propaganda tactics and methods have so saturated the national discourse that it is difficult to discern reality from falsehood, truth from fiction, or deceit from honesty. 
The situation is exacerbated by the lack of critical thinking skills among the younger segment of the population. Subjects like logic—and hence logical fallacies—argumentation, metacognition, etc. aren’t required course work at any level of public schooling.........To Read More....








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