It really is a psychological obsession.
It really is.
If I had 1/10 the money that Schumer and Pelosi have....I would be long gone.
You guys would never see me again.
But with them it is not about that. It is some kind of psychotic obsession with control.
I would never want that kind of control. I would never want their life.
The Father of Modern Advertising is Edward Bernays.
Before WWII he sold his work as "Propaganda".
After WWII when it was discovered the Josef Goebbels owned all of Bernay's books and had made extensive use of them he changed the description to Public Relations.
And Bernays learned his stage magician misdirection from his Uncle Sigmund Freud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_BernaysOf his many books, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) gained special attention as early efforts to define and theorize the field of public relations. Citing works of writers such as Gustave Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Walter Lippmann, and his own double uncle Sigmund Freud,
he described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct—and outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desirable ways.
FreudIn 1920, Bernays organized the publication of Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis in the US, sending royalty money back to his uncle in Vienna. Freud turned down further offers at promotion, such as a possible lecture tour and an invitation to write 3,000-word newspaper columns, for $1,000 each, on topics such as "The Wife's Mental Place in the Home" and "What a Child Thinks About."[38]
"When a person would first meet Bernays," says Scott Cutlip, "it would not be long until Uncle Sigmund would be brought into the conversation. His relationship with Freud was always in the forefront of his thinking and his counseling." According to Irwin Ross, another writer, "Bernays liked to think of himself as a kind of psychoanalyst to troubled corporations." In addition to publicizing Freud's ideas, Bernays used his association with Freud to establish his own reputation as a thinker and theorist.