- 09 Feb 2020 15:20
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In other words, argumentum ad populum.
However, as politics is, after all, about the public, argumentum ad populum is probably one of the hardest fallacy to beat, no less because of the sheer price of staying upright in such a rogue wave.
Potemkin wrote:Or, better yet, induce the audience to spread the propaganda themselves - once the audience for the propaganda is invested in the propaganda themselves, once they 'own' that propaganda, then they will no longer perceive it as propaganda but just as "what everyone knows".
The Americans are very good at this sort of propaganda, whereas the Russians and the Chinese tend to be very bad at it.
In other words, argumentum ad populum.
However, as politics is, after all, about the public, argumentum ad populum is probably one of the hardest fallacy to beat, no less because of the sheer price of staying upright in such a rogue wave.
O Lord our God arise,
Scatter His enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God, save us all!
Scatter His enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God, save us all!