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To: Bob434

“The left’s playbook has always been rooted in violence”

Roots of Radicals has many roots. Most significant:
Get the opponent to accept a false premise.
Get the opponent to accept lies about reality.

False premise example: We live in a democracy.

Lie example: We all agree that .......


5 posted on 10/12/2025 11:10:14 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

wow do i have a post for you- Theodore Darylmpe said it-

-——Theodore Dalrymple———

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to
reality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think
if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”

Written by Theodore Dalrymple


6 posted on 10/12/2025 3:57:06 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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