Freepers Hypnotized by the Dim Bulb In Chief?

[Hubert Flottz]

BUSH-HITLER: HYPNOTIZING THE MASSES

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Of all the labels hung on George W. Bush, the hardest to shake may be the comparison with Hitler.

Perhaps the clearest likeness between the two men lies in their use of emotionally induced hypnosis to plant in the mass consciousness an image of themselves as protectors of their subjects from threats to national survival both inside and outside the fatherland.

In a June, 2003 article written for The Nation about Bush’s "mastery of emotional language, especially negatively charged emotional language," clinical psychologist Reanna Brooks observed that "Bush creates and maintains negative frameworks in his listeners’ minds with a number of linguistic techniques borrowed from hypnosis and advertising to instill the image of a dark and evil world around us."

His subliminal messages to justify religious war against "evildoers" are right out of Madison Avenue. Writing in The New Yorker of July 12 & 19, David Greenberg tells how Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, "himself an evangelical, laces the President’s addresses with seemingly innocuous terms that the devout recognize as laden with meaning: ‘whirlwind,’ ‘work of mercy,’ ‘safely home,’ ‘wonderworking power.’" More...

http://www.duckdaotsu.org/07212004-bushhitler.html

[Surya Gayatri]

1. How to explain the phenomenon otherwise?

When I hear people like my intelligent, otherwise caring MD brother defending neo-fascist *blivet, I have to believe this is the answer. It's not all deluded, material self-interest, although he (my brother) has been a winner on that score. (4 years on & he still has a photo of the flaming twin towers as his PC desk-top wallpaper...look deeply into my eyes and repeat after me : 9/11...9/11...9/11):shrug:

[Hubert Flottz]

5. "people like my intelligent, otherwise caring MD brother

defending neo-fascist"

In two words...TAX CUTS!

[MadisonProgressive]

2. In the words of Joseph Goebbels:

".....the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. In the long run only he will achieve basic results influencing public opinion who is able to reduce problems to the simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals."

[oasis]

4. "Simple and repetitious" propaganda, yup.

[zbdent]

3. Getting a woodie while watching the State of the Union address

somehow does not cross their minds as "homosexuality" . . .