A new billboard by the North Iowa Tea Party features a photo of President Obama, flanked by pictures of German dictator Adolph Hitler and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. The billboard features phrases like “Live Free or Die” and “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive.”
For 40 years the Republican party has been a haven for racists and bigots. They used the self named "southern strategy" to deliberately build their base with racists. To this day the party constantly glorifies the confederate effort to destroy the United States in order to keep slavery. Nixon's Jew Hunter is still a star of the GOP. David Duke is a Republican. White supremacist groups are all right-wing. And the preeminent right wing political family of our time, the Bush family, got rich underwriting the Nazi war machine. We could go on all day. Thankfully we don't have to. It only takes 4 or 5 sentences to make a compelling case the Republican party is racist through and through and stuff like this billboard is just a classic and massive case of projection
Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, would have been proud of the GOP's playbook for building their base with racists...
ReplyDeleteHitler put his ideas into practice with the reestablishment of the Völkischer Beobachter, a daily newspaper published by the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from February 1925 on, whose circulation reached 26,175 in 1929. It was joined in 1926 by Joseph Goebbels's Der Angriff, another unabashedly and crudely propagandistic paper.
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favorable to its own side.
The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas.
These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.
Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula."
Shit Lon, that sounds like what we're trying to do here :-)
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