Over the last 20 years, I watched as post-911 war propaganda worked wonders on people on the political right and convinced them that there were terrorists hiding under their beds and we have to invade middle eastern countries because "freedom" - but the same propaganda didn't convince most of the left. Then I watched as anti-Trump propaganda did a number on the political left and turned them into deranged loons, but generally didn't work on the right (even the ones who weren't all that crazy about Trump still didn't succumb to the TDS). Now I feel like the covid propaganda is working on some people but not others. The PMC are falling for it big time, and there also seem to be some easily-frightened working class folks who are cowering in masks, but it's clearly not working on everyone.
That is the one problem with propaganda. No matter how good it is, it can't appeal to everyone, because people have different "triggers"/unmet needs that can't be met by the same approach.
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Date: 2021-09-12 01:44 pm (UTC)Over the last 20 years, I watched as post-911 war propaganda worked wonders on people on the political right and convinced them that there were terrorists hiding under their beds and we have to invade middle eastern countries because "freedom" - but the same propaganda didn't convince most of the left. Then I watched as anti-Trump propaganda did a number on the political left and turned them into deranged loons, but generally didn't work on the right (even the ones who weren't all that crazy about Trump still didn't succumb to the TDS). Now I feel like the covid propaganda is working on some people but not others. The PMC are falling for it big time, and there also seem to be some easily-frightened working class folks who are cowering in masks, but it's clearly not working on everyone.
That is the one problem with propaganda. No matter how good it is, it can't appeal to everyone, because people have different "triggers"/unmet needs that can't be met by the same approach.