Here is something you've never heard of but probably are exposed to every day
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The term is: Reverse Validation. It is when a politician or a leader or a media organization takes an issue like birth control, gay marriage, or even child labor laws, and publicly sows doubt and controversy where issues such as these seem to most of us to have been settled already. Why do this? Because it releases lots and lots of energy in the population it is directed at.
"The war on Christmas" is an example of a seasonal reverse validation. A kind of hybrid use of this ideology. Reverse validation quickly angers people around some issue and once the energy has been effectively used up, another issue is introduced and another and another keeping the target audience either angry or on the edge of anger all of the time.
You might have an easier time remembering this dynamic if you simply call it the Fox business model.
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what we're all interested in much more revealing, and even fun, than deceitful influencers intend.
Just imagine how helpful it would have been to recognize the reverse validation of "DNC" in 2016 to a new conspiratorial meaning personifying an enemy of Democratic voters (
), instead of what it was -- then an extremely weak, neglected, unfunded administrative support department charged with providing very limited defined assistance to presidential candidacies and organizing debate events.
(Btw, what the spotlight actually pointed up was what a neglected, dysfunctional backwater the support department known as the DNC'd become, so underfunded it could barely keep its own lights on much less even begin to fulfill its assigned duties. It's since been reformed and given staff qualified to meet its assigned responsibilities.)