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To put it very simply, there were five basic, highly effective moves that allowed Hitler's rise:
First, the Nazi party allowed a coarse, uneducated leader to rise to prominence on a white privilege, nationalist wave. Second, the conservative establishment
To put it very simply, there were five basic, highly effective moves that allowed Hitler's rise:
First, the Nazi party allowed a coarse, uneducated leader to rise to prominence on a white privilege, nationalist wave. Second, the conservative establishment
party foolishly thought it could appease him by sharing power. Third, that same Nazi party destroyed media credibility to silence critics. Fourth, the Nazis literally burned the establishment congress to the ground. Fifth, it seized authoritarian power by using unchallenged
propaganda to precipitate anexistential threat allegedly emanating from those outside the white Aryan race and outside the nation's borders.
It is the third stage – destroying the credibility of the mainstream media -- – that's happening right now, and the Politico/
It is the third stage – destroying the credibility of the mainstream media -- – that's happening right now, and the Politico/
Morning Consult poll shows it's working. Whether it continues to work in the next one, two or three years is still very much an open question -- one that depends on how other Republican leaders, who rightfully distrust journalists because they tend to be overwhelmingly
progressive, and the actual leaders of the dominantmedia forms in America respond.
But if this third stage works, and if GOP leaders allow it to stand, then the fourth and fifth stages we saw in Nazi Germany aren't all that far behind. There's a reason that dictators seize the
But if this third stage works, and if GOP leaders allow it to stand, then the fourth and fifth stages we saw in Nazi Germany aren't all that far behind. There's a reason that dictators seize the
TV stations, newspapers and magazines and create their own media arms when they rise to power: Propaganda is effective when it's wielded expertly by the state.
Adolf Hitler and his state media chief, Joseph Goebbels, forged plans for the Nazi party's Ministry of Propaganda and
Adolf Hitler and his state media chief, Joseph Goebbels, forged plans for the Nazi party's Ministry of Propaganda and
Public Enlightenment during peacetime, long before the onset of World war II. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it was an unprecedented, and largely unnoticed, strategy.
State-sanctioned propaganda – which works by destroying independent media credibility
State-sanctioned propaganda – which works by destroying independent media credibility
while simultaneously disseminating lies – is now lurking around every corner in America, and in the press briefing room at the White House itself, where the press secretary and administration officials offer demonstrably false statements as truth or "alternative facts."
History is repeating itself, this time with tools and media forms that did not exist a generation ago. But the goal is the same. The power of state-sanctioned propaganda, and its ability to destroy the credibility of independent media, is timeless for a simple reason: It works.
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