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My goal is to enable people to defend themselves against propaganda.
One of the features of the website are the pocket-sized lists, designed to be printed four-to-a-page, double-sided. You can literally stick them in your shirt pocket and whip them out when confronted with:
1) A psychopath - 1% of Americans are high-level psychopaths, about 9% are low-middle and upper-middle psychopaths. (It's a spectrum personality disorder.) Do the math. Only 1% of the high-level psychos are violent. The other 99% are "merely" toxic people without a conscience who can ruin your life and walk away whistling. You will not be surprised to learn that psychopaths gravitate towards positions of power such as politics, corporate boardrooms and executive suites, where they can comprise an estimated 10% of the members, and to con-man activities of all sorts. You could say that Trump is simultaneously filling all these slots. 12 criteria are listed. Example:
LACKS REMORSE: Despite their words, they experience little emotion or concern for the pain and suffering of others. Unfazed, dispassionate, coldhearted & unempathic, disdainful towards their victims, saying they deserved it.
[Editorial note: If corporations are now "people," most of them behave like psychopaths.]
2. Principles of Propaganda and Counterpropaganda (9 principles each). Examples:
BLAME: Never waver, acknowledge no doubt; always blame, never credit the other side. Debase, defame, dehumanize.
RESPOND: Lies not immediately refuted become the audience's truth.
3. Dealing with misinformation. Four scenarios. Example:
Continued Influence effect: Despite retractions or corrections, people continue to rely on misinformation.
Solution: Alternative explanation fills gap left by retracting misinformation.
Good Practice: Strengthen retraction through repetition, but without reinforcing the myth.
There's a ton of explanatory material supporting these intentionally brief statements.
PDF copies of the above which you can download or print directly are HERE
Arm yourself with useful information.
The GOP have been skillfully propagandizing Americans for decades.
The Dems need to know exactly how they do it and how to counteract it.
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