07-19-2024, 08:09 PM
This post was last modified 07-19-2024, 08:10 PM by Maxmars.
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I think that this bizarre reality is a function of how the media and political parties embarked on a 'partnership' for a partisan cause... and felt completely free, and fully empowered to use the very worst propaganda techniques, and even embraced the concept of the "sacred lie" as long as the opposition is notionally diminished in their eyes.
Someone in the mix of those two player teams promulgated an idea that maligning and damning an "opponent' by any means (and to any degree possible) was somehow a "solution" to the hateful fact that not everyone agrees with them (and their 'clearly' unquestionable partisan wisdom.) They spend the better part of an entire decade indoctrinating the youngest generation about "how they should feel" and how they must "be."
There have been similar efforts to "promote" acceptable political ideology in the past everywhere politicians "pay" for media 'support'... but not by reason, not by persuasive argument, but instead by a non-stop blatant campaign to characterize "those other people." And if those "other people" should support someone with whom they bear a grudge, they should elicit notions of everything from a "failing country" to "the end of the world."
It's marketing. Elevated to the level of mental illness.
An entire generation of citizens has known nothing other than the 'narrative" they have spent countless millions to establish at the "truth."
As it stands now, there are people who become emotionally agitated the moment they merely hear the name of someone who represents an opposing view. It's not about the opposing view at all, its about the 'hating'' of the 'bad person." They will automatically accept any bad words about him (or her, for that matter) as coming from a good, reliable, and respect-worthy source.
They will come to love the hate... and when in the right group, or the right setting, that hatred becomes even more fulfilling...
Someone in the mix of those two player teams promulgated an idea that maligning and damning an "opponent' by any means (and to any degree possible) was somehow a "solution" to the hateful fact that not everyone agrees with them (and their 'clearly' unquestionable partisan wisdom.) They spend the better part of an entire decade indoctrinating the youngest generation about "how they should feel" and how they must "be."
There have been similar efforts to "promote" acceptable political ideology in the past everywhere politicians "pay" for media 'support'... but not by reason, not by persuasive argument, but instead by a non-stop blatant campaign to characterize "those other people." And if those "other people" should support someone with whom they bear a grudge, they should elicit notions of everything from a "failing country" to "the end of the world."
It's marketing. Elevated to the level of mental illness.
An entire generation of citizens has known nothing other than the 'narrative" they have spent countless millions to establish at the "truth."
As it stands now, there are people who become emotionally agitated the moment they merely hear the name of someone who represents an opposing view. It's not about the opposing view at all, its about the 'hating'' of the 'bad person." They will automatically accept any bad words about him (or her, for that matter) as coming from a good, reliable, and respect-worthy source.
They will come to love the hate... and when in the right group, or the right setting, that hatred becomes even more fulfilling...
