Not everyone is a hero worshipper. You can be singled out by the guards if you go for the purpose to gawk or mock the body of Lenin, so there is a certain amount of feigned adulation in the long lines of tourists.

What's the old marketing adage; 'Perception is Reality'.

I think we are not talking about the same

A fact is true. Propaganda is a process. A process of achieving what you want through the way you present to audience facts, is a matter of public opinion

Clinton was impeached is a fact, not propaganda

One of the ways of trying to make people support removing him or not of the office is propaganda not a fact.

Clinton deserved or not get removed is an opinion not a fact. Stir the opinion towards what you want is achieved through propaganda.

Propaganda can be based on facts, often loosely (generalization, reduction and other techniques). But is not the same as saying that propaganda is true under certain circumstance..

Propaganda and facts are not the same, propaganda doesn't care facts it cares about opinions about the facts

Note that I don't say that propaganda is necessarily bad (almost always it is). But that will get us to a discussion of what is good or bad.

“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

I think your first rule is wrong: • The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

Moral relativism is an essential part of the communist/liberal/Democrat agenda. Blurring the lines between right and wrong allows for anything to be acceptable. "Islam is the religion of peace." That slogan and it's current variations (Obama's statement that "no religion condones what ISIS does.") are intended to diffuse the boundaries between right and wrong so that we cannot have a clear line where it is appropriate to stop evil.

It may seem simplistic, but it is necessary to make a decision about what is right and what is wrong. Without that distinction, everything is just 'someone else's opinion;' and therefore acceptable.

Those certainly seem to be the rules the Democrats use to win.

The question for us is, how do we reach a mass of voters, most of whom are so shallow that those rules work?

They did that in Russia - ever go to Red Square? You can still, to this day, see the body of Lenin lying in state. The real corpse - not a dummy or mock-up, but the same dead dictator that started the whole looter theocracy of the USSR in the early part of the 1900's. He still draws a certain sense of awe and reverence to a lot of the people who visit it, and people still wait in line (in sometimes crummy weather) to walk past Ol' Vladimir and place flowers there.

Interesting, how a society that eschewed religion, called it the Opiate of the masses, turned around and built their own form of religion around itself and it's founder. Germany tried to do the same thing in the 30's and early 40's with their shrine to the Alter Kampfers... Had they not crashed and burned so well, they probably would have succeeded - after all, look at the various religions that use that -ology as their mantra.

Well said!!

Yeap... True story.. I would add the rule of the myth.

Take something a lot of people like, be it good or bad but people has some kind of connection and affection. Use it as a symbol of your project.

Say God is on your side... or Jesus was socialist, or Simon Bolivar was socialist, Chavez is the Christ of the poor, Maduro is the son of Chavez the eternal commander. Even make Chavez shrines. Make it religious.

Propaganda is not about true or false, is about point of views of the audience and influence them

Propaganda is never impartial (Impartial is the information in a system definition, facts), therefore it can never be objectively true.

Wow, those are some really scary words. But then again, they seem to represent freedom, freedom of thought. Obama must be thinking, "Why can't everyone just be like me? It would just make it much easier to get along."

Sounds like they used the same tactics on the topic of Global Warming... oopppsss I mean Climate Change... ;>)

BTW I saw the movie and loved it!! :)

A variation of the NAZI "Big Lie" method. Say is often enough and even doubters will begin to believe it.

Yeah, Orwell had it wrong by just 30 years!

Propaganda is the subtle machinery that works on emotions in the warfare of ideas, to aid one's own and denigrate or demolish any perceived as opposing one's own. To guard against being fooled by both impostors, use Ayn Rand's dictum: Check their premises.

Or... 2014.

1984

+1.

Never tell the truth; good fabrication takes practice.

Presidential reminder list - probably has it taped below the teleprompter, so he doesn't forget his prime objective...

I don't know if the DNC/RNC orchestrate it or if there's a vast industry of people using propaganda to get readers/viewers, and politicians and their parties must draft behind that to get attention. Maybe the vectors go more the other way, with the politicians driving it. It's definitely symbiotic.