Lenin’s favorite “scalpel” (tool, technique, method) in subverting the enemies of the Socialist State was propaganda. It still is for every succeeding Russian leader. It hasn’t changed with any subsequent Socialist anywhere seeking to overthrow the free world. Rational American citizens are witnessing it happen today – as they did with “Basement Joe‘s” win in 2020.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, exercised complete control over all German mass media and “creative artists” through his office. The Reich Chamber of Culture was established in 1933. The main instrument of press control was the daily press conference. Selected press representatives received very detailed instructions as to which reports were to be published and in what form. The Ministry’s control of the press was based on ordering the “message of the day” and used indirect pre-censorship and direct post-publication censorship. After reviewing the relevant articles, the Ministry followed up with praise or censorship.
The participants in the Reich press were ordered to destroy the instructions issued to them after they had been implemented. Journalist Walter Schwerdtfeger was imprisoned for treason until 1945 because he passed the Ministry’s instructions on to the foreign press.
Sound familiar? It should. The exact same control of the media has been occurring in the United States for the last several decades. First couched in terms of Political Correctness morphing into “Woke” and “D.E.I.“, speaking the Truth has become a treasonable offense in America today.
It makes the Journalist Creed hanging on the wall at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. a hideous mockery of that trade and hypocrites of every one in it.
The source of this strategy can be traced directly to a man named Edward Louis Bernays (1891-1995) an American pioneer in “public relations” and propaganda. His best known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist “Torches of Freedom“, and his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s which was instrumental in the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. His uncle was Sigmund Freud.
Bernays’ work capitalized on the discoveries of “conditioned reflex” by Vladimar Bekhterev (1857-1927) before Ivan Pavlov made it more popular with his work on dogs; and the work of Sergei Chakotin, a student of Pavlov, who fulfilled Pavlov‘s desire to apply conditioned reflex to human beings (see: The Rape of the Masses: The Psychology of Totalitarian Political Propaganda by Serge Chakotin).
Bernays‘ books have become today’s political bibles with such diabolical titles as: Crystalizing Public Opinion (1923), Propaganda (1928); Public Relations (1945); and The Engineering of Consent (1955). Bernays’ accurate assessment of the gullibility of the American people will change your mind about “tin hat” curmudgeons you may know. His book Propaganda alone contains numerous examples of the diabolical mass manipulation of the American psyche.
Those works are the “scalpels” guiding the Left, the DNC, the “Deep State” to victory. Kamala‘s counterfeit campaign is capitalizing on Frederic Bastiat‘s 1848 paradigm incisively describing the difficulty of maintaining freedom within representative government: “Legal plunder [by the government] has two roots: One of them is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy [bribery] (see: “The Law”, “The State” and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850 by Frederic Bastiat).
The 1960 Nixon – Kennedy elections were determined by the first televised debate. Kennedy, young, handsome, smiling while promising the moon versus Nixon, sweating, scowling and negative. Compare that to today’s Kamala v Trump contest: Kamala: young(er), female (Americans love “firsts” i.e. Obama), smiling, promising the moon vs. Trump: scowling mug shot, growing older before our eyes, and negative (not to mention his natural character proclivities being his worst enemy).
The GOP still (at least publicly) continues to operate on the naive assumption the American electorate are rational human beings. That campaigning on the Biden-Harris abominable – even treasonous – record will triumph in November. That’s never been the case in American history much less in politics. Thomas Jefferson complained of the exorbitant expense required in throwing greater feasts and providing more caskets of ale and better wine to his constituents than his competing candidate.
The massive COVID-19 paranoia – according to the Great Barrington Declaration – the “Greatest hoax committed against humanity in the history of the world” – so easily foisted on the American people is just recent evidence of the facility with which the electorate can be manipulated – and how many shadow gestapo there are among us.
Even Elon Musk‘s millions used to “monitor the ballot boxes” can’t ensure a Trump win in November. There were ballot monitors in 2020. They were isolated or kicked out during the dark hours when trucks were delivering fraudulent ballots. There were ballot counting whistle blowers with direct evidence of ballot stuffing and deliberate miscounting. Judges refused to listen to them. There was the most advanced surveillance technology proving – showing! – fraudulent ballot stuffing. The judges and the media (including “conservative” media like Brian Kilmeade) who refused to listen to or expose the fraud.
A hostile, weaponized government, a feckless House; a colluding mass media (including vocabulary control by the “conservative” media i.e. illegal immigrant); and decades-long “conspiracy of ignorance” upon several generations stacks the odds against a Trump win in November – despite the “facts” or “the record.”
Remember: “It’s not how many votes are counted. What matters is who counts the votes.” – Lenin
Quotes from Edward Bernays‘ Propaganda; 1928:
“A presidential candidate may be “added” in response to “overwhelming popular demand”, but it is well known that his name is decided upon by half a dozen men sitting around a table in a hotel room.”
“A civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which [public] opinion may be regimented.”
“An entire Party, a platform, an international policy is sold to the public – or is not sold – on the intangible element of personality.”
“Governments, whether monarchial, constitutional, democratic or communist, depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of an acquiescent public.”
“Democracy is administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses.”
