2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hats off to the DNC. The debate schedule is utterly brilliant. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It's the disagreements over the small differences that will absolutely impress the Republican ideas into the heads of the listeners like shoes into cement.
As I am writing, my husband enters the room telling me about how the Republicans are repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly attacking Social Security and how the press is repeating the Republicans' repeating and repeating.
That's how thought is changed.
Take a little trip back to pre-NAZI and NAZI Germany and then go to Soviet Russia. Repeating, repeating, repeating is how you spread ideas. It is one of the tools of propaganda.
We think we are so smart and that our ideas are so clearly correct that we do not need to get out there and talk about them.
We are the stupid ones.
The Republicans with their many, many candidates and their many, many debates are indoctrinating voters.
The top dogs know their ideas are idiotic, so to sell them, they repeat them over and over.
That's how Fox News does it. They issue certain phrases, certain catch phrases of the day and all of their newscasters are supposed to carry that catchphrase and sell it.
We need more debates, lots of debates.
We need to repeat our ideas to the voters, and we need lively and exciting debates to get people watching and listening.
Hillary is not going to lose out just because we have more debates. If she is that weak, she should not run.