Like the gas stove shit (in the US). How simple was it for Fox News, etc., to get millions of people who had no opinion on gas stoves whatsoever minutes earlier, to suddenly be willing to die to preserve their right to own gas stoves against some faceless enemy who is, in their addled minds, coming to their home to forcibly take their stoves away?
You already pointed it out, you just aren’t quite touching on the difference. These conservative morons (the ones being fed, not the ones preaching the message) are quite gullible and short-sighted. They operate on emotion, not reason.
The reason Left-leaning people aren’t susceptible to such rhetoric is because they’re more in control of their faculties. We may get worked up and emotional. We may fall victim to bad information. But we aren’t driven entirely by the id.
ETA: Capitalism is built on lies. Tobacco industry lied for decades. Fossil fuel industry has lied for decades. Muskrat has lied for a long time, but I don’t know how long (and don’t care to check).
What I meant is that people on the left should be using these tactics against the same conservatives, because they’ve proven how gullible they are, to get them to do the opposite of what they’d normally do.
Like getting them to buy electric vehicles because they saw something on Facebook that told them that liberals are actually claiming now that they’re worse for the environment than internal combustion.
Or, because they’re so scientifically illiterate and incurious, we can convince them that bacteria and antibiotics are a liberal hoax so they go out of their way to give themselves life threatening bacterial infections.
Like I said, someone smarter than me can figure it out…
I guess corporations can do it much easier because they have basically endless resources.
You already pointed it out, you just aren’t quite touching on the difference. These conservative morons (the ones being fed, not the ones preaching the message) are quite gullible and short-sighted. They operate on emotion, not reason.
The reason Left-leaning people aren’t susceptible to such rhetoric is because they’re more in control of their faculties. We may get worked up and emotional. We may fall victim to bad information. But we aren’t driven entirely by the id.
ETA: Capitalism is built on lies. Tobacco industry lied for decades. Fossil fuel industry has lied for decades. Muskrat has lied for a long time, but I don’t know how long (and don’t care to check).
I wasn’t referring to leftists falling for it.
What I meant is that people on the left should be using these tactics against the same conservatives, because they’ve proven how gullible they are, to get them to do the opposite of what they’d normally do.
Like getting them to buy electric vehicles because they saw something on Facebook that told them that liberals are actually claiming now that they’re worse for the environment than internal combustion.
Or, because they’re so scientifically illiterate and incurious, we can convince them that bacteria and antibiotics are a liberal hoax so they go out of their way to give themselves life threatening bacterial infections.
Like I said, someone smarter than me can figure it out…
I guess corporations can do it much easier because they have basically endless resources.
The problem is that leftists care about such petty things as “the truth” and “integrity”.