The goal of the propaganda assaults across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything.*

[Savannahmann]

57. Of course it isn't.

The wave of Propaganda that is being pushed here and on other sites, we've all seen it, is not to sway opinion, but to stigmatize those who hold differing opinions. To make us look like kooks for opposing the NSA spying for example.

If we are shouted down, we can't make our case, and they win by default. It's working too, because the polls are already slipping back to show a majority who support such intrusions. We have two hopes to hold on to.

1) The ten percent theory. The idea is that once an idea passes a ten percent of the population threshold that it will inevitably become a majority opinion in time. Nearly half believe that the NSA spying is a bad thing, and it is a coin toss as to how the end of that road works out. Either a vast majority will decide that the NSA is a great thing, and to hell with Civil Rights, or the Majority will rebel against it.

2) The courts. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit, one of many, that challenges the NSA spying. Right now the Justice Department is contending that the matter qualifies as National Security, and the Third Branch of Government has no say in how it is run.

Time will tell if either of these brings us the outcome we desire, the end of the NSA program. During the entire time though, the Propaganda will be constant, people shouting that we are horrible for thinking that Civil Rights matter.