Adding: (d) Muslims are peaceful, (e) Mexico is our friend, (f) illegals violate our borders looking for a better life, (g) The Clinton Foundation is saving the world.
Behavioral Sciences and psychology are dismissed by our side while being USED by the other side. Psychology is not just counseling or some frivolous study. It is a weapon when used in certain ways to strategically position image, words, feelings of large groups of people.
Trayvon Martin becomes a cause, the Gentle Giant is on everyones lips, but Kate Steinle killed by an illegal in San Francisco??? Well, things happen. Benghazi? Well, so long ago, etc.
We had better start paying attention to this stuff and grab the language, stop using their terms, stop giving into their demands, stop apologizing for offending them, stop changing team names and acting as if their complaints are real when they are not.
All of it is connected and goes back to manipulation of public opinion. These tools are available to us as well. Reframe arguments, never let anything go just to be popular with someone.
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REFERENCE Obama Decree Unleashes Behavioral Science Squad to Nudge You
(by Alex Neman Sept. 18, 2015, The New American)
Under the guise of better serving the American people through government, Obama signed an executive order this week calling for federal agencies and departments to deploy emerging behavioral science techniques against the public.
The Obama order also establishes a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team charged with applying psychological research to manipulate the beliefs and behaviors of Americans under various pretexts, and guide the vast federal bureaucracy as it hones its abilities to manipulate the public. --SNIP--
Obama order also establishes a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team...
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If you haven’t already, read Vox Day’s book “SJWs Always Lie”, especially the last chapter about the difference between RHETORIC and DIALECTICS.
It shows how answering rhetoric (”Republicans are racists”) with dialectics (”Democrats founded the KKK, Democrats keep blacks on the welfare plantation, blah, blah, blah”) projects weakness and leads to failure.
It will change the way you think about politics.
Calling Trump a “thin-skinned bully and a racist” is not an argument. It’s a punch in the face. Winners punch back, losers argue.
That is absolutely correct. One of the reason that I like Trump is because he has single handedly taken a wrecking ball to the vile media and political correctness.
But they will not simply lie down and take it. They were taken aback at first by the success with the voters with his broadside. But now that the victories in the weekly primaries no longer dominate the news cycle the media is once again shaping the narrative.