I remember years ago a course on social psychology. The teacher said “WE won, THEY lost.”
It was a reference to sports teams. Your team won the championship? “WE won!”
Your team lost the championship “THEY lost.”
I’ve always been on the lookout for this line of reasoning. People back quickly off of a losing horse. They don’t want to be associated with losing. They also pile on a win they quite literally had nothing to do with.
It’s a useful line because you can see the MSM doing this now. Like they weren’t cheerleading it the entire time. In the hopes that people will forget they were involved or had any culpability. One of the reasons this works is because their fans did the same thing.
“The government has lost and failed etc.” “They lost.”
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Re: A weird change in the narrative
Date: 2022-02-22 08:39 pm (UTC)It was a reference to sports teams. Your team won the championship? “WE won!”
Your team lost the championship “THEY lost.”
I’ve always been on the lookout for this line of reasoning. People back quickly off of a losing horse. They don’t want to be associated with losing. They also pile on a win they quite literally had nothing to do with.
It’s a useful line because you can see the MSM doing this now. Like they weren’t cheerleading it the entire time. In the hopes that people will forget they were involved or had any culpability. One of the reasons this works is because their fans did the same thing.
“The government has lost and failed etc.”
“They lost.”