“I don’t believe in aliens at all but people *have* used extremely effective mass manipulation techniques on crowds throughout history.”
It’s called the Big Lie, and it’s not hypnosis. Big Lies rise to prominence the same way benign conventions rise to prominence: the more something is repeated, the more acceptable it becomes.
People are open to propaganda because they are creatures of habit, and lazy. They like to solve intellectual problems as quickly as they like to solve physical problems. We want to settle in our minds who this Obama guy is, in order to relieve us of the obligation of settling what he stands for the next time we see his face. Since information about Him is controlled by the MSM, we are likely to associate Obama with “good speaker” and “spellbinding.”
We like the simplest definitions available. Sometimes they’re accurate, often less so.
Synchronicity!...I posted the Wiki synopsis of The Big Lie to someone on another thread, earlier.