Being Aware of Propaganda

I ran across this graphic today.  It is a real good piece of Propaganda.  Not one single fact.  Just a comment "People who work for a living are being overwhelmed by people who vote for a living. 

Let's Break it down. 

1. How are people who work for a living being overwhelmed? 

This is left vague so that anyone who is overwhelmed will relate to it.  The target is a person who feels financially over whelmed.  Today that is a vast majority of the people. 

2. How does a person make a living by voting? 

The inference is the Romney tag about the 48% who do not pay taxes.  This of course was shown to be false as a lot of people who do not pay taxes are working people who earn their money by Working.  What we are asked to believe here is that our taxes are paid to people who do not work and  they make their living by voting for people who will pass more bills to give these "moochers" more "hand outs"

Again, there are not facts or figures to show this.  This is misdirection.  You are given a problem and the point to the person that you want to divert blame. 


It is true that there are a lot of people that for people who will give them "hand outs".  Corporate hand outs such as subsidies that never die and and tax cuts where many corporations pay little or no taxes.

Also everyone who votes votes for their own self interest.  Corporate owners give massive donations to make sure they can control the agenda in Washington so they get to keep their hand outs.  

3. What is the Target of this propaganda? 

People who are overwhelmed in a time of transition where labor and technology are displacing workers and placing larger burdens on Government Assistance.  This causes strains on the economy in general, but a further complication is the refusal to provide adequate money for Job Creation to provide relief for the overwhelmed worker. 

On its face, it is a bit strange to accept that the poorest least powerful part of an economy can be the cause of an economy that is overwhelming the remnants of the Middle class.

In the mid-70's the world changed and the US began a decline.  As corporations became international they began to move jobs out of the US.  The Corporations now also had to compete for  resources and that caused inflationary pressures in the Economy.  The old economic Models did not work and the US has been in decline ever since.  Coporations began to jump ship, so to speak, and i leaving those bound in the US struggle (being overwhelmed) with living on less.

It is all there.  Anyone who wants to can do the research, but struggling families are at the mercy of time and money and seek instead someone who will tell them what is going on.  The propagandists have fill that spot all to well, feeding the people with simplistic stories to misdirect them until it too late to do anything.  Read Animal Farm by George Orwell.  He has the model down but when he wrote the book he get the future antagonist incorrectly, but the book just states the model.