If you want to be reminded of just how radically left the adults of that time were and the media, then go check out the DVDs of the 1960s, “Smothers Brothers Show”.
It was prime time TV of radical politics, and direct to the camera lectures, that were softened with jokes and occasional music.
I just watched some of them again, and trust me, your memory does not do it justice, it was hardcore leftism delivered by corporate establishment and millionaire business people.
My memory does, it's just nice to know I was not the only one to notice.
With subsequent decades to study the effectiveness of imagery and phraseology--measured by polls, calculated in communications arts departments at Universities, the indoctrination and manipulation of the masses via the medium of television (as well as pop music--especially videos--where images impart meaning not necessarily found in the words), by mass media has never enjoyed such power.
Even the imagery at Invesco Field, the stage setting was reminiscent of Leni Reifenstahl's (sp?) Triumph of the Will, a seminal piece of propaganda, and no doubt an inspiration for the Leftists.
All since then refines basic principles and the use thereof, the basics were pretty well known by the Nazis and the Soviets.
It's more subtle now, but that is done to reduce the reaction, the backlash, and resistance to the implantation of concepts as desired by the propagandist. (You can trip over a step, but most will just shuffle up the ramp).
Alinsky tactics, are outgrowths of the agitprop industry, and the more blatant some of the rhetoric is, the more palatable the subtle lies--one plays against the other. (Something the Republican Party just doesn't seem to get, as it tosses it's "radicals" under the bus with ridiculous regularity instead of using them to at least shift the axis of debate back toward their own side.)
When serious competition rolls in, it is villified as 'extreme' ("Talk Radio") so people won't listen to it and begin critical analysis of the viewpoints on the issue.
It's new, improved, extra freshening, lemon scented, concentrated, fat and sodium free, in the new (smaller) economy size, but it's the same soap they were selling then, just in a slicker package.
But the 'buzzwords' are wearing out, as people realize they aren't "radicals", "racist" or "homophobes", they just are tired of being told a sh*t sundae is ice cream with cherries and whipped cream on top.
Hopefully, the whole "recovery" thing will point out to the masses that the lies do not change their own reality, and the internet has permitted that word to get out as never before.
While the web can be used for propaganda, too, it's counter propaganda potential is even greater if it remains a free medium.