Two Types of Campaign: Manufacturing Consent v. Majority Goal

ammoland ^ | 26 October, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

We are witnessing the competition between two different types of campaign. The first, with Hillary Clinton as its champion, is the type that has been successful for the presidency, with the exception of Reagan, for the last 60 years.  In this type of campaign, the ruling elite decides what they want to do.  They start propaganda campaigns to popularize what they want to do.  Most of the projects are long term, such as disarming the population, eliminating borders, or changing sexual norms.  They belittle opposition and do not allow the opposition to get their message out.  The technique is called “manufacturing consent.”  The election is part of the process, where the elite have manufactured consent, with their propaganda, that results in electing a candidate that will do what the elites want done.

The other type of campaign is best epitomized by Ronald Reagan.  Reagan traveled around the country, figuring out what people wanted, what the goals of the majority were.  He summarized and collated what they wanted into a campaign that promised to do what they wanted.  He won overwhelmingly.  He acted as a focus for what the public wanted rather than as a tool for what the elite wanted.

Donald Trump is pushing a campaign of the Ronald Reagan sort.  The elite see it as a rollback of their plans, and oppose it with every tool at their disposal, including nearly all of the media. They have turned it into a campaign where they are attempting to  manufacture opposition to Trump.  It is what they have to do to stop him. It did not succeed against Reagan, in large part because the elite believed their own propaganda.  A large part of their propaganda was that the media part of the elite

[marktwain]

The entire premise of "progressivism" is based on the ability of the elites to "manufacture consent" in the voters, in order to get their policies put in place.

[baltimorepoet]

The basic gist of “manufactured consent” is that it reduces voting to being merely a poll as to how effective the brainwashing was.

[Biggirl]

Good news. The elites are LOSING.