Remember when you were a kid and the t.v. warned about "communist propaganda"?

[BigBearJohn]

It never ceases to amaze how the Republicans can promote outright lies, with straight faces no less, and then figure if they repeat the lies often enough, spoken with indignity and raw emotion, that the public will buy it (as they often times do). PURE UNADULTERATED PROPAGANDA. And since the corporate masters have full control of the media, they can disseminate the Republican propaganda ad nauseum until you start to question your own sanity.
Is there any end to this filth?

"Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist." Source: Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda And Persuasion, 4th edition, 2006.

Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience

[Extend a Hand]

1. I remember in grade school in FL

we had drills where we had to get under our desks in case of a nuclear attack by the Sovier Union. LOL

We were supposed to be a likely target because of the space center.

[angrycarpenter]

2. remember Americanism vs. communism

the blatant indoctrination class in school. We were conditioned in school to accept what the government said as the gospel truth. Pity many never wised up in adulthood.

[MatrixEscape]

3. Good point to the OP and ....

Yeah, I know what you mean BigBearJohn ... one grows up to realize that it was "Duck and cover yourself goodbye!" Talk about terrorism.

I wonder how many kids were rather "terrorized" by the idea that a big old bomb could drop on them any moment? And, in their naiveté, they had no way to know, until they grew up, that it was most likely a futile effort in more ways than one. If they were close enough to get the "flash" they would not go blind. They might even save themselves from becoming an ash print on the wall, (in a small zone) but they would be dealing with a horror and possibly, a fate worse then death in any proximity to an atom blast.

I think those tactics served to impress the capitalistic Cold War agenda on impressionable minds, more than they proved to be any altruistic attempt to ensure safety.

[valerief]

4. We have become the enemy our teachers warned us against. nt

[stillcool]

5. it's pervasive...

..I'm tuning out, turning off, and dropping out. The blatant bullshit coming out of government agencies, the political machine, and not only the media but practically all of television programming, is too much. I've even taken to reading fiction lately...as I'm thinking it's closer to reality. At least I don't have to read between the lines, and constantly interpret the new meanings of old words, that inundate the self-promoting, fact-distorting non-fiction-fiction being put forth by paid to say zombies feeding at the trough.

[BigBearJohn]

6. Well said.