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kpete

(72,005 posts)
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:13 AM Aug 2020

"For anybody listening to what the RNC is doing right now--it's all propaganda."

"To say that 170,000 souls lost in our country, up to now, is success by any measure is fantasy. It's disrespectful to the families who've lost loved ones...


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LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
4. What I have seen is everything I read the Democrats did, the Trump people are bringing the
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 11:44 AM
Aug 2020

counter to present Trump the same way Democrats presented Biden. It has been a day of mimicking the Democrats.

Brother Buzz

(36,449 posts)
6. Yes Propaganda, but one could make the argument the RNC is specifically practicing Gaslighting...
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 12:07 PM
Aug 2020

an odious subset/component of propaganda

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes, including low self-esteem. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs. Instances can range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents occurred, to belittling the victim's emotions and feelings, to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
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