The Brexit right have conducted a relentless Goebbelsian propaganda campaign year after year. What has Labour done to combat it? Nothing.
Is it then a surprise that politically naive voters have come to believe the Brexit nationalist narrative?
Silence is collaboration.
Is it then a surprise that politically naive voters have come to believe the Brexit nationalist narrative?
Silence is collaboration.
The Left suffers from a naive tendency to believe that voters will respond rationally to economic facts. Marxism has left a legacy of economic determinism and even centrists tend to believe that economic experiences translate pretty seamlessly into political preferences.
But facts don't directly affect political views. They do so only when given a political meaning by political narratives & frameworks which tell us what political significance to put on a fact.
The politically aware don't notice this because the political frameworks and narratives they have learnt automatically assign meanings to events and facts. But the politically naive need to be given explanations and meanings, and hence are wide open to propaganda.
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