* Intellectual Curiosity has been bred out of Americans,
and Outsude-the-Box-Thinking has been demonized in our schools,
and in our society
*The History of the Class Struggle and the Labor Movement
has been eliminated from our History Books
*The BIG LIE works
[font size=3]"All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. Thus its purely intellectual level will have to be that of the lowest mental common denominator among the public it is desired to reach. When there is question of bringing a whole nation within the circle of its influence, as happens in the case of war propaganda, then too much attention cannot be paid to the necessity of avoiding a high level, which presupposes a relatively high degree of intelligence among the public. "
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"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."[/font]
---volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925)
*
"You can't tax the Job Creators!"
*"America is the greatest nation in the World."
*"Anyone can get rich in America if they work hard enough!"
(Feel free to add your own Big LIE).
*Most of America is stuck at the Cognitive and Emotional Development of Middle Childhood,
where
Authority Figures are gods,
"Father" is infallible and requires unquestioned loyalty,
abstraction is difficult/impossible,
External Validation is necessary,
the World is divided into US vs Them,
binary choice thinking (Black vs White) and
immediate gratification dominate.
*"WINNING" an external and arbitrary goal as defined by
"the gods" ***AT ANY COST*** has become the
Raison D'Entre.
When is the last time you heard
anyone say:
"Its not whether you win or lose,
its HOW you play the game"?
THAT has been replaced in our American culture with:
"Second Place is the first LOSER!"
*Courage to
Do-the-Right-Thing and
Living-by-Principles are DEAD.
FEAR rules.
(This is actually a characteristic of
Middle Childhood Development, but worth repeating.
(
"If you don't do THIS, the boogieman gets you!")
Aside from THAT ^,
I got
nothin.
You will know them by their
WORKS,
not by their
excuses.
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