Political Abuse

[ish mailian]

David,

Try to reconcile this claim in Washington monthly with the other one
you posted on the press as Trump's enemy.
This one understands Trump. The other one hasn't a clue because it
assumes that the large medium can correct or hold to account the
messenger for his message. The Washington Monthly piece has it right.
There is no pretense. Trump is a charlatan. The greatest we've seen on
the white house in a very long time. He makes slick Willy look like an
honest Abe.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:10 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/22/is-shawn-spicer-gaslighting-the-press/
>
> The truly horrible thing about propaganda in authoritarian regimes is not
> that it convinces the true believers, but that it demoralizes opponents by
> saying in effect: “Yes, we know that you know we are lying, but we don’t
> care! We do it because we can and you can’t stop us!” As for the majority of
> apolitical citizens, it infects them with a corrosive cynicism and dissuades
> them from all forms of public engagement. Apathy may be a more powerful
> silencer of dissent than overt physical coercion.
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