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Paving the Way's avatar

We need to give people opportunities for new affiliations. People do not usually go from one allegiance to nothing. Soviet citizens were offered liberalism and they took it. That offer has not worked in the Muslim world because they correctly see how decadent liberalism has become. Communist China gives its people just enough freedom to keep them from rebelling. North Korea uses the iron fist. Our governments use propaganda and need to belong. Thus, we would change hearts and minds by offering different propaganda and different affiliations.

75% of people are not critical thinkers nor do they have the capacity for abstract thinking (I may have guessed at this percentage but seem to remember something like this from graduate school). Most will move to the next powerful opinion when the current opinion is no longer perceived as cool.

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barbaraburrows's avatar

One thing I have learned in the past few years is to pay special attention to those who are banned from Twitter, Facebook etc. I especially paid attention to Biden’s “dirty dozen - 12 most dangerous people in America. Possibly the intense censorship is backfiring??

Thanks for mentioning Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon. I so hope Julian lives to see the light of day. What heroes they are..

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