March 4, 2017
On Friday last, I was listening to your discussion concerning the false claims of the left and media. I am not suggesting they are Nazis but someone in the democrat party has read Mein Kampf or the puppet master of the party has read it or lived it. The following are taken from Mein Kampf and I believe you will see that the actions propaganda of the left and media follow very closely to what Hitler proposed. Italics indicates a passage from Mein Kampf, my comments are in regular print. The Hitler comments were from the chapter on propaganda.
The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision.
The “facts” don’t need to be real, they can be implied such as Jeff Sessions talked to the Russian ambassador therefore they were discussing how the Russians could help Trump. Things implied and stated by the left such as “racism,” “death wishes for the elderly,” “the right hate immigrants” have never been proven but are covered by the media as fact. The fact is, the left (democrats) have always been the party of racism, beginning with starting the Civil War to protect slavery.
The whole art consists in doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself, since its function, like the poster, consists in attracting the attention of the crowd, and not in educating those who are already educated or who are striving after education and knowledge, its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect.
Obviously, “facts” created are preferable since they are more difficult to rebut especially if an “interpretation” is added. When attempts to sway people are appealed to the emotional, not the intellectual, facts become entirely meaningless and burdensome.
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be exerted in this direction.
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be. And this is the best proof of the soundness or unsoundness of a propaganda campaign, and not success in pleasing a few scholars or young aesthetes.
These are known as the low information voters who, having lesser knowledge can be more easily influenced. Think of the types of democrat supporters you see. Charles Barkley once made the comment poor black people have voted democrat for 50 years and they are still poor (and I might add uniformed) Note how democrats make a charge, say Sessions conspired with the Russians. They offer no proof, don’t try to explain their position and in doing so, make no intellectual demands on what they consider their base. Also note how infrequently democrats diverge from the party line. The reason for this comes later.
The second really decisive question was this: To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or to the less educated masses?
It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.
What the intelligentsia-or those who today unfortunately often go by that name-what they need is not propaganda but scientific instruction. The content of propaganda is not science any more than the object represented in a poster is art.
Another name for propaganda as it applies today would be indoctrination. This indoctrination starts early in school and becomes intense during college years, in effect making college students part of the masses. It was, I believe, Will Rogers who noted the problem isn’t what people don’t know that makes a difference, it is what they know that isn’t so that causes problems. The information they have which isn’t so is the result of propaganda and indoctrination.
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in sloans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.
Democrats will continue to deny facts even confronted with reality. Think of how many of them are calling on Sessions to step down even though nothing is proven and it is all allegations. Daniel Patrick Moynahan one said you are entitled to your own opinions but not your facts. The media are experts at taking allegations and insinuations and writing in such a manner as to make them look like facts. In doing so, they take the onus from the democrats to prove their allegations.
The broad mass of a nation does not consist of diplomats, or even professors of political law, or even individuals capable of forming a rational opinion; it consists of plain mortals, wavering and inclined to doubt and uncertainty. As soon as our own propaganda admits so much as a glimmer of right on the other side, the foundation for doubt in our own right has been laid. The masses are then in no position to distinguish where foreign injustice ends and our own begins. In such a case they become uncertain and suspicious, especially if the enemy refrains from going in for the same nonsense, but unloads every bit of blame on his adversary.
Let us go back to where I made a point of saying the democrats rarely part from the party line. This is why. To do so would create confusion with the masses and the edge would be lost. Nazi Pelosi recently made not the meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bile Clinton was “serendipitous.” I did not hear one democrat challenge this stupidity. She is counting on the stupidity of the masses not to make sense of her statement.
The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision.
The whole art consists in doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself, since its function, like the poster, consists in attracting the attention of the crowd, and not in educating those who are already educated or who are striving after education and knowledge, its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect.
The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.
Here Hitler is admitting that the truth is unnecessary and, in particular, not wanted when it comes to working with someone else. That must never happen. Whatever lies and distortions used to achieve that end are to be used. Hitler also noted that if you lie, make the lie so big no one will doubt it. The masses use little lies themselves and will soon recognize it from politicians.
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blase young gentlemen, but to convince, and what I mean is to convince the masses. But the masses are slowmoving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.
When there is a change, it must not alter the content of what the propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.
The point democrats are driving at this point is not that Sessions or anyone else may have done something wrong. It really doesn’t matter. What does matter is the message that President Trump needs to go and everything they say, do, or write must hammer that point. No one in the democrat party differs in these actions. They feel free to lie, such as Pelosi’s “serendipitous” comment, the fake “dossier” that someone wrote on Trump, and some people still use that lie. Who are the traditional racists in America? Democrats. Who wrote the Jim Crow laws? Democrats. Who started the Civil War to preserve slavery? Democrats. Who were the “Dixiecrats? Old line southern Democrats who fought improving the lives of blacks. Who was Robert Byrd? A Dixiecrat who was a high ranking official of the KKK and majority leader of the Senate who, when he died, was eulogized as a great American who could have been president. Who did Lyndon Johnson thank for passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Republicans since the democrats were fighting it.
What Hitler wrote some 80 years ago bears a remarkable resemblance to the democrat strategy of today. If you were to read “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” you would be able to clearly see what happened in Germany using these tactics and, in all likelihood, what will happen in America. The media has joined with the democrats just as the German media joined forces with Hitler. History always, always repeats itself and the fall of the Third Reich is being duplicated in America today.
