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In reply to the discussion: Democrats Still Don't Understand What They're Up Against [View all]KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)on multiple fronts for decades using simultaneous but carefully separated and orchestrated parallel battle fields:
1. The face we see with their suits and ties in speeches in Congress and in campaign ads, which appeal to emotions and pump-up people's level of fear.
2. The faces we don't see hidden behind the curtain of legislation and regulatory changes they carefully mask-over regarding harms to the public.
3. The enormous right-wing media machine funded by hard-right billionaires that pumps out lies and deception 24/7.
4. Encouraging the mechanisms by which our main-stream media companies have become profit oriented concerns, which discourage them from bucking corporate (Republican) interests. Therefore, everything political must be normalized back to the relatively civil and "working across the isle" style of the 50s and 60s.
It is instructional to observe how Republican politicians play their theatrical games, using each of those four mediums to their advantage. They create a fog of disinformation to keep the public's heads spinning at all times - a method straight our of Russia's master playbook.
We're facing an extreme uphill battle to return to economic and political equality, as well as to educate our public on how they're being played.