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Wow q/q, isn't the left always attacking the right? Or am I imagining it?

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To reiterate:

What the right-wing is attacking is not "the left". It is a collection of propaganda images designed to generate Pavlovian responses and provide a false caricature of their opponents.

For example: the right-wing doesn't want to talk about their horrendous fiscal irresponsibility, so they find some poor black woman on welfare to attack. They know that progressives will (rightly) defend her, and that this will then enable them to characterize their opponents as "defenders of those (evil racial minority) welfare queens".

They know exactly what they are doing, and you can see this over and over and over again in their rhetoric.

You respond by saying "well, the left attacks the right too, so what's the problem?". But that response completely ignores my point, which was the NATURE of the attack-techniques that the right-wing propaganda machine is using. They are purely propagandistic and dishonest, and the end result is little more than a collection of Pavlovian responses to conditioned images of "the evil other".

It isn't just that progressives are being screwed by this Pravda-like approach that the right-wing is using. It's also that most right-wingers themselves are simply being played for fools.


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