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CentralCoaster

(1,163 posts)
3. Third dynamic: Marketing tools, championed during the 90s by Clinton.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:37 AM
Apr 2016

And blown out to extraordinary dimensions since then.

Focus groups, messaging, avatars and icons, millions spent on those things that are the opposite of substance and leadership.

Using fear to motivate, including fear that you don't look good enough, you need a better car, Sanders wants to take your money and give it to hippies.

That kind of shit is really popular these days, but I think it's wearing off in the face of a human alternative.

Senator Bernie Sanders.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
4. Are you referring to the Facebook problems that have been roundly debunked many times already?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:39 AM
Apr 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

PufPuf23

(8,789 posts)
5. Lots of Bernay and MacLuhan and marketing going down.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:41 AM
Apr 2016

We are drenched in electronic massaging of perception.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
7. I wonder what to call posting the same hyperbolic screeds over and over again, ad nauseum?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:43 AM
Apr 2016

I know! Psychological warfare!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
9. I'm really not sure why Sanders supporters are...
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:45 AM
Apr 2016

Trying to fool the electorate by saying he is winning or by falsely claiming Clinton is leading some form of vote tampering charge. I get that these arguments are to try to bring more LIV's into the fold but they won't even buy the lies being sold. It is borderline psychological warfare and is a clear attempt to get republicans elected.

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
10. we knew the system was broken when we signed up for the fight
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:49 AM
Apr 2016

In a Catch 22, Sanders' surge has pushed Hillary deeper into the pocket of Wall St (if that is possible).

Her base is so hollow that all the manipulation is showing through.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/04/hillary-clintons-super-pac-taking-a-page-from-vlad.html

They wouldn't deploy this much democracy-screwing stuff if they didn't feel they had to.

drokhole

(1,230 posts)
12. Because fundamentalism, authoratarianism, and coginitive biases aren't restricted to a single party
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 11:28 AM
Apr 2016

...they belong to a particular mindset.

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