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The emotional-inversion trap. How the Left uses language to demonise the Right. : Comments

By Keith Borholm, published 1/10/2018

Conservatives need to wake up to the fact that words and phrases have an emotional impact and can foster confusion in voters' decision-making.

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I just hope Morrison doesn't do an Abbott.
Posted by individual, Monday, 1 October 2018 5:13:05 PM
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Meanwhile this essay describes how the popular media systematically and deliberately misinform the public on almost every issue. It is of course highly applicable to the Murdoch "news"-papers.
http://www.beezone.com/da_publications/popdisgu.html

This reference describes the highly proscribed choices that now exist in the political, economic and cultural spheres;
http://www.coteda.com/fundamentals/index.html
Posted by Daffy Duck, Monday, 1 October 2018 7:54:45 PM
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Seriously, you say only the Left use emotional language? Have you listened to Trump lately?!

For example: 'The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person. It is called the politics of destruction. Behind the scene the Dems are laughing. Pray for Brett Kavanaugh and his family!'

Do you think this is a sober statement of the material facts?

The left have nothing to teach the right when it comes to demonising people. The right have historically specialised in whipping up resentment and fear against outsiders (e.g. those lawless refugees who are coming to steal our jobs and plot terrorist attacks).

This is all just polemical thinking. Don't obsess about the evils of the other side. Try independent thinking.
Posted by Michael T, Monday, 1 October 2018 8:50:14 PM
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http://youtu.be/tlIjMJBSnRE

Try this for an inversion trap !
Posted by individual, Monday, 1 October 2018 9:23:30 PM
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I thought this was an excellent article, and I can't find any fault with it. 10/10.
The author should be commended for taking the time to read Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals.
This is the book that forms the basis to Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party's ideology.
- It also covers the lefts ideology and tactics generally.

I also commend him for doing what more journalists and reporters should be doing, which is to seek out the truth and learn all the facts.
- To essentially earn the right to express a informed opinion.

Finally, I'd just like to also thank him for standing up for my country, for what's fair and decent.
Good on ya Keith, thanks for your efforts.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 1:35:59 AM
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I absolutely agree with everything which Keith Bonholm has written in this article.

The default position of the Left on any topic is to portray themselves as the champions of high moral virtue, while denouncing the actions of the Right as always promoting the interests selfish rich people. Almost any political subject can be made to conform to this formulae. The moral grandstanding is almost comedic. Perhaps some readers can remember the always outraged Natasha Stott Depoya? While the utterances of Green leader Di Natale are so morally superior that you can visualize him standing before a chorus of singing angels as he speaks.

Of course, such moral grandstanding does appeal to those who have a compulsive need to think that they are superior people, morally and intellectually better than the hoi polloi.

Fortunately, the times, they are, a changin', and western white people are beginning to see through the moral grandstanding for what it really is, the ranting of a new breed of evangelical moral puritans. These puritans conform exactly to past manifestations of these personality types, from evangelical religious inquisitors to communist commissars. The utter conviction that they, and only they, are the guardians of morality. The absolute belief that they are the righteous ones and that their opponents are unspeakably evil. The knowledge that their cause is so just that no blow is too low.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, most people thought that Socialism had been thrown on the scrap heap of history. Surely nobody could be stupid enough to resurrect a system that had failed in every society it had been tried, with 100 million casualties?

But there seems to be a significant demographic character type within western societies that needs to think that their government should be their Big Brother, who should look after them from cradle to the grave. And no amount of displaying that such a government has never worked in practice will ever convince them that their quixotic, utopian dream is an illusion.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 4 October 2018 8:10:39 AM
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