Why do the conservatives bounce back like a bad case of Herpes every two years?
I believe that the current back-room masters of the GOP consistently outmaneuver the Democrats in terms of framing issues and I believe that the infrastructure (financed by the Koch brothers and many corporate entities) is truly a marvelous Propaganda Machine :
Institute for Justice
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
American Legislative Exchange Council
Americans for Prosperity
John Birch Society (co-founded by father Fred Koch)
Kansas Policy Institute
Reason Foundation & Reason Magazine
CATO Institute
Heritage Foundation
The GOP itself
The above list is partial. Go to the following link to discover more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/...
We saw the effectiveness of this machine in action in the 2010 elections. Although in 2008 many Americans thought they had voted the GOP into remission, the Republicans rebounded like a cancer raging out of control.
How did they accomplish this? By successfully "framing their arguments" and by successfully "moving the window."
These terms used are relatively new to the populace at large. Let me re-phrase what the GOP and plutocrat backed Astroturf groups have accomplished: They are winning the Propaganda War.
WHY THE LIBERALS ARE LOSING THE PROPAGANDA WAR
I believe that there are two main reasons why Liberals are losing the Propaganda War:
1) Liberals abhor Propaganda while Conservatives embrace it. Liberals want to talk about "facts" and "reality" while Conservatives (many of them operating businesses) use Propaganda as a means to an end just like any company using advertising. Advertising IS Propaganda. The same techniques used by Madison Avenue are used by the GOP. Meanwhile, the Democrat opinion leaders, heavily populated by academics, reject the idea of Propaganda as "distasteful" and prefer the "high road". That's why we have major conservative spokespersons damning Obama-care as seeking to install death panels while we hear not a peep from major liberal mouthpieces about how Ryan's budget is really "grandma's death sentence." That's right, most liberals (intellectuals) are "too good" for propaganda.
Here is a quote from a master Propagandist (who, I'm sure, Carl Rove studied):
"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction.
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be. And this is the best proof of the soundness or unsoundness of a propaganda campaign, and not success pleasing a few scholars or young aesthetes."
2) The segments of the Liberal wing that do use propaganda have failed to adapt their techniques to the current reality. I'm talking about you, Union thugs. Yes, Unions are the one Liberal aligned group that is adept at certain propaganda techniques but have failed to update their strategy to take advantage of the current media environment. When was the last time you heard of a pro-union AM drive time radio host?
CONCLUSION
If Liberals are to prevail and wish to truly de-claw the destructive force that is the current GOP then Liberals who have access to mainstream media need to put aside their distaste of Propaganda and wage full out war.
Where was that quote from? From a book called "Mein Kampf". I told you that Karl Rove most likely studied it.