Posted on 03/20/2004 9:11:38 AM PST by jmstein7
New Anti-Democrat Ad! Winning on ANGER, not Ideas!
The Democrats know they can't win on ideas.
Instead, they rely on making Americans angry to win.
Since Americans won't vote for them, Democrats win by getting them to vote against Republicans.
If America knew what Democrats really stood for (socialism), they would never win.
It's all a dirty Democrat campaign trick!
Download the latest ad by right-clicking HERE and choosing "Save-As"
Enjoy!
Maddening ! ;^)
Server too busyDo the 'right click and save as' to you desktop and then after it's there, click on that file.
Or try again later. When it has a lot of folks hitting it at once, it probably doesn't work.
Sorry for the trouble.
Wonderful work! Let's get it out there!
From John Kerry and the International Socialist Party:An adept student of propaganda once wrote, "The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and [then] to the heart of the broad masses." In other words, the art of propaganda is to transform politics from a reasoned debate of issues among intellectuals into an emotionally driven stupor of the masses. He then went on to write, "The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, [and] their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out." Propaganda short-circuits reasoned debate by building a consensus outside of the political process, which can then apply significant external pressure to anyone standing in the way of the message.
The Democrats, through the press, use this technique of propaganda to avoid the reasoned debate. What do they stand for other than hatred of George W. Bush? This ad cuts to the heart of the Democrat plan.
I disagree. I think the Dean scream was (is) overused. It gets played on the radio still ten times a day. I would rather have Kerry yelling "None of your business" or do they have one with him calling that SS agent an SOB?
Perhaps what's needed is to produce some 'fables' or stories, whose characters would not be explicitly identified but whose identities people should be able to infer. Write the stories in such a way that any liberals who find themselves offended have only themselves to blame for identifying with the evil characters. [E.g. when an ad accused "greedy mayors and corrupt politicians" of suing the gun industry, Mayor Daley squawked at being called greedy and corrupt--but why would he think the ad was talking about him?]
One fable I'd start with would be the story of a farmer who is accused by the townspeople of keeping a larger portion of each year's grain crop than anyone else. Never mind that he worked to produce the crop, or that he needs the grain to plant next year's crop. Allowing the farmer to keep too much of his crop is clearly detrimental to the townspeople.
Another story--though harder to tell in a suitable format--would be a story in which some nasty people plot in a back room to engage rent-a-mobs against businesses that don't pay them proper tribute. Of course, Hollywood does similar stories all the time with Republicans as bad guys; Republicans need to strike back.
Somehow, a lot of liberals need to be woken up the fact that they're being played for saps, and used by greedy people to extort money from those that needed, so the greedy people can pocket most of the money themselves. Not sure how best to do that, but if the facts can gain a foothold there could be a very rapid sea change in short order.
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