Reply #327: so he controls you

[Two Americas]

Whatever he says, you will take the supposed opposite side.

That is exactly how the right wing propagandists are controlling and steering Democrats, while they think they are actually opposing the right wingers. The right wingers are defining this supposed "opposition," telling people what they should be saying and doing in opposition to them, controlling them.

People think that the right wing propaganda is intended to "rally the right wing base," and think that they can watch and listen to it and not be affected. But most of the right wing propaganda is actually aimed at liberal lurkers, and is designed to lure them into false battles and into taking weak positions, and to then turn on their own allies and attack people when they take left wing positions.

People are taking the "liberal" positions, and are "rejecting" the right wing positions in a very shallow and simplistic way, but what they are failing to see is that they are allowing the right wing propagandists to define the battle and assign the roles in that battle, and are in that way controlling and steering the liberals who watch TV and take it seriously.

The effect that the right wing propaganda is having on Democrats and liberals and progressives is far greater and far more destructive then the effect it is having on any "base" or on the general public. It turns liberals into puppets on a sting, weak and predictable, dancing to the tune of the right wingers, playing out a role that is being assigned to them, and reading the lines that have been given to them.

If Limbaugh does not want liberals to take a certain position, all he needs to do is to take it himself.


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