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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussia releases new batch of propaganda: "True liberals don't believe that Russia helped Trump."
Hijacking anti-establishment movements is Russia's specialty. Whenever there is an anti-establishment movement in Russia, be it artists or veterans or whatever, a mysterious russian billionaire philantropist will found his own organization that does EXACTLY the same and targets EXACTLY the same people. Money gets thrown at this new organization, people join it... and then it refuses to do something about the russian establishment of Putin and his cronies.
We can see the same in the reporting of the russian state-propaganda like RT:
* They are pandering to authoritarians. E.g. about a month ago there was an article mocking a russian human-rights activist who was illegally drafted into the russian military, how he will get some sense beaten into him as a recruit.
* They are pandering to anti-establishment liberals by (selectively) reporting on corruption and human-rights-abuses (except when done by Trump, Russia or the Assad-regime).
It's all about building a controlled opposition.
TL;DR The resurgence of rightwing politicians is a result of the elites. People who believe that Russia helped Trump are not liberals but antipopulist elitists and traitors to our glorious revolution against the bourgeoisie. Also, the members of the anarchist "black block" movement and of the punk Antifa-movement are white upperclass elitists.
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/26/the-debunked-russian-influence-nonsense-is-infantilizing-liberals/
I use complicated words! I must be smart!
The reductio ad absurdum of this kind of mythological thinking is the adoption of the term "Resistance" by domestic opponents of President Donald Trump, which implies an equation between Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans and the heroic anti-Nazis of the French Resistance. The anti-fascist theme also provides the name for the Antifa movement which, like the earlier "black bloc" anarchist movement, is made up chiefly of the privileged children of the white overclass who abuse leftist ideology as an excuse to dress up as movie-style ninjas, vandalize property, and harass people.
In other news, Antifa consists of antipopulist elites who want to brainwash the US into Communism.
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/antifa-useful-idiots-brainwashed-know-used/
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)I'd love for everyone they brainwash to think I'm 25 years old, can sing like Lizzo or Billie Eilish, can compete with Miss Universe in looks, and most importantly, have an IQ of 145. It's all just as believable as the rest of their trash.