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

[TheKentuckian]

112. I rec but I think you are somewhat "mis-underestimating" the effort to shift the spectrum of

acceptable ideological discourse to the right while shrinking said spectrum.

This is their strongest use of message discipline, it is consistent throughout addressing ANY AND ALL TOPICS. True, topic for topic they have little interest in changing minds but overall a high level of effort is made to make entire political philosophies taboo and that essentially all meaningful debate in our politics is roughly between a secular/theocratic axis and then to a lesser extent (and usually a deeply conflicted situation at both polls) between pro and anti government absolutism (that again, neither polar opposite can actually consistently support their own argument because they ar both equally ludicrous falsehoods as ideologies).

Issue after issue though and situation after situation these folks don't have to argue convincingly in a winning hearts and minds kind of way to steadily and surely tar about every mode of thinking that isn't firmly corporate friendly and accepting of the status quo as radical and the opposite of beyond the right wing border of what depths of regressive forces they consider to be the far right which happens to be maybe one notch short of the Taliban (if not actually the same thing).

See how they consistently frame the picture? You go one click on the dial toward the left from the Turd Way and you are close to the point where they say the left mets the right and the trip is damn short.

I'm not sure how many notches you can get in before you have reached such a place but it seems pretty certain that if you are a New Deal type Democrat that holds their line that you are a hard leftist, at minimum and arguably a "Firebagger" and obviously any ideas to the left of "New Deal Democrat" put one squarely into the off the map extremist territory to the point that one is just as likely to show up in a tricorn hat demanding lower than historically low taxes and "official" birth certificates as equal rights and choice and if one utters economic justice then they probably makes you a wingnut of some flavor and if you mention civil liberties then it is a cinch beyond question.

It is the eliminationist tactics that work to change minds or preferably to them eliminate such thoughts from forming in an articulable fashion by dragging them through ten swamps and then yes killing all such avenues for such ideas to be shared and discussed.

Our current message controllers would paint the likes of Eleanore Roosevelt as a Teabagger to fit their phony ass narrative. If that doesn't stick then call whoever a racist or some kind of bigot. I'm surprised they haven't got around to chucking Martin Luther King under the bus yet for his economic justice campaign. They have thrown FDR under here with a suit of tar and feathers as a racist because Social Security (they lie) excluded blacks when the truth is more nuanced that the fields most black folks worked in were excluded, along with white folks who did the same jobs as well as the internment fiasco in which they never, ever account for the difference in the times and pressures of an actual existential threat.

We also never can get a description of "political center" even from those who are self proclaimed "centrist" because they are all left of center and rarely is anyone labeled just right of center to contrast. You'd think a Charlie Crist would qualify but he has to be painted as having always been center/center left as to justify how solid of a Democrat he can be considered now. Same for Arlen Specter or any other fence hopper, they were always of the left.