Saint-Raphaël's right-wing mayor, no stranger to media stunts, has vowed to 'put an end to the lies about the reality of communist totalitarianism.' In response, the French Communist Party and other left-wing groups denounced the 'revisionism of history.'
It all comes down to, do you believe that it’s possible to mislead people? And relatedly, can you deceive a whole population? I have seen so much evidence that propaganda works, living in our shared capitalist hellscape. I cannot see a >90% agreement, on pretty much any question ever formulated, without a loooot of programming. Nothing is ever that popular naturally. These are not populations that are routinely exposed to differing opinions. Totalitarianism, in all it’s forms, has these same indicators: screwy election numbers, cults of personality, government enforced and socially enforced orthopraxis and orthodoxy, etc. It is not a system where you have anything resembling agency.
You can’t imagine anything that 90+% of people would agree on?
Because I sure can.
People need to be fed, have a place to sleep and hide from nature.
And what agency do we have now in the west? Can we stop the climate catastrophy? PFAS and microplastics from entering our bloodstream? The US couldn’t even stop a fascist takeover.
I very much dislike people who try to paint politics as an opinions game, while foregoing the basic function of state as caring for its citizens.
It all comes down to, do you believe that it’s possible to mislead people? And relatedly, can you deceive a whole population? I have seen so much evidence that propaganda works, living in our shared capitalist hellscape. I cannot see a >90% agreement, on pretty much any question ever formulated, without a loooot of programming. Nothing is ever that popular naturally. These are not populations that are routinely exposed to differing opinions. Totalitarianism, in all it’s forms, has these same indicators: screwy election numbers, cults of personality, government enforced and socially enforced orthopraxis and orthodoxy, etc. It is not a system where you have anything resembling agency.
You can’t imagine anything that 90+% of people would agree on?
Because I sure can.
People need to be fed, have a place to sleep and hide from nature.
And what agency do we have now in the west? Can we stop the climate catastrophy? PFAS and microplastics from entering our bloodstream? The US couldn’t even stop a fascist takeover.
I very much dislike people who try to paint politics as an opinions game, while foregoing the basic function of state as caring for its citizens.