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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