Say That Again, and Again, and Again

Certain wing nut parties seem to be obsessed with calling our President a Nazi. If that was true they wouldn’t be saying it twice. Most times when people make accusations like that they’re very poorly informed, that’s why they’re so afraid. Ignorance breeds fear like spoiling meat breeds maggots.

Most of us react, we don’t think. If something sounds right, well hey, must be true. The only problem with that is we’re all of us, a messy mixture of prejudices, emotional pain and unpleasant life experiences. We filter everything we see and hear through this messy mixture. Seeing the truth gets hard.

The conservatives exploit this distorted thinking by using a technique ironically learned from a Nazi by the name of Herman Goering, Hitler’s minister of propaganda.

Herman knew that if you took a bald faced lie and repeated it enough times folks would start to believe it’s true. So, if you say that the President is a Socialist, or not an American citizen, or he’ll raise your taxes, over and over and over, people start to believe it. Big advertising has been using this technique to sell us soap flakes for a long time.

And speaking of Socialism, we employ many Socialist programs here in the good old U.S.A. to advantage. Social Security, Medicare, public schools, fire departments, the military and police departments to name a few. So, there’re not all bad.

Try to do your own thinking, don’t let someone else push your buttons and get you to react the way they want you to.