Thread by @caitoz

The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda

"Seize control of the narrative."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-left-wil…

A new Gallup poll finds that Americans' opinion of Russia and China have plummeted to historic lows this year, with 79 percent of the population now reporting an unfavorable view of China and 77 percent reporting an unfavorable view of Russia.
news.gallup.com/poll/331082/ch…

In a recent @MintPressNews article titled "After Years of Propaganda, American Views of Russia and China Hit Historic Lows", @AlanRMacLeod points the finger at the obvious culprit in this shift in public opinion:
mintpressnews.com/propaganda-ame…

And, I mean, of course this is the case. There is no rational reason for anyone to hold particularly negative views of either of those countries based on actual facts in evidence, and there is certainly no rational reason to perceive them as a threat.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1367998174539882497

You can expand this principle to include the entirety of US foreign policy on the global stage today.

Indeed, you can also expand this principle to include our entire financial/economic/political system as a whole.

Propaganda is the single most overlooked and under-emphasized aspect of our society, bar none. It's so pervasive that most of us don't even notice it, like that old joke about the two fish who are asked "How's the water?" and then turn to each other and say "What's water?"

How often do you hear your average citizens discussing the fact that billionaires own the mass media which is consistently used to manufacture consent for the agendas of the plutocratic class, compared to how often you hear them talking about, say, the next presidential election?

Even among leftists (by which I mean anti-imperialist socialists) this is a severely under-discussed issue, when it should be the MOST discussed,

Until fighting the empire's propaganda engine becomes the agenda the left focuses the bulk of its energy on, none of its other agendas will ever come to pass.

How do we do this? We just do it. We begin focusing our efforts, for the first time ever, on drawing public attention to the fact that the mass media have been deceiving them.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/how-to-defeat-…

For the first time ever we begin in sufficient numbers to prioritize above all else the disruption of public trust in the mass media and the imperial narrative management scams which keep everyone from clearly seeing what's wrong with the world. We seize control of the narrative.

Information has never been more democratized, and trust in the mass media has never been more low. The opportunity to expand awareness of what's really happening in our world has never been riper.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/all-of-human…

All we need to do is seize on this opportunity and wake the working class out of its propaganda-induced coma before the window on that possibility closes on us forever.