Language and Propaganda - an example

Re: McGentrix (Post 6312207)
McGentrix wrote:

While I understand why you do it, could you stop posting links as bit.ly links? I think it's a bad habit for people to become accustomed to clicking such links but unless I can hover over a source and see where it is actually leading me I will not follow them. People should never follow blind links.

exactly

"My personal belief and nothing has been decided yet. I would [move through] and repeal [the ACA]and then go to work on replacing," McCarthy said. "I think once it is repealed you will have, hopefully, fewer people playing politics."

What is unquestionably written was your endorsement of a group of conservative writers lumping books by Freud, feminist pioneer Betty Friedan, John Maynard Keynes and the Kinsey Report along with books by Marx and Hitler as the Top Ten Most Harmful Books Ever Written. You would spare Darwin, though, so I guess that means you're not entirely gone.

It's easy enough to offer shortened links here (and still let people see what sites they are going to).

It is simply an observable fact that the great majority of the books listed from Lenin and Marx to Keynes and Erlich's Population Bomb have been proven bu history to be wildly inaccurate and fallacious.

The list was about the "Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries" not, if they were wildly inaccurate and fallacious.

The Danger of Doubting Donald Trump's Legitimacy
...And there’s a real upside to allaying their doubts through a recount. In the Trump era, truth will be under enormous strain. Voters of all persuasions will be beset by mass disinformation campaigns meant to eliminate points of consensus that allow open societies to make reasoned public decisions. Liberals should get habituated to driving home inconvenient facts to help people through the constant Orwellian struggle to see what is in front of their noses. Letting widespread doubts about the election fester would make matters worse. Telling people the election was above board without showing them will not help.

The most persuasive, but under-discussed argument in favor of auditing the election in Wisconsin is that it will pull many Americans out from under a penumbra of confusion and propaganda. At least some of the people demanding it will have their faith in the integrity of the election restored; our institutions will be better off; people can focus on resisting Trump the old-fashioned way.

But Trump doesn’t care about this kind of stabilizing dividend. To the contrary, he sees mass disaffection, and the erosion of accepted truths, as a source of political strength.

“By attacking the very notion of shared reality, the president-elect is making normal democratic politics impossible,” the writer Ned Resnikoff explained. “When the truth is little more than an arbitrary personal decision, there is no common ground to be reached and no incentive to look for it.”

Adds, I don't worry about your stuff, Bernie, but I don't always feel like reading everything.

Are you advocating the barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen approach?