Words Matter

One of the things the Left has done successfully is to use behavioral scientists to help them formulate practices to sell their agenda. These practices have been studied and are known to work.

One of those practices is to repeat something over and over until people believe it is true. Hitler, in his book, “Mein Kanpf” spoke of the idea that the bigger, the more outrageous the lie, if repeated often would be believed. We have asked for decades how the German people stood by and allowed 6 million Jews to be exterminated. Although the German Jews had lived beside the Christian and secular Germans for decades, Hitler used the BIG LIE to demonize the Jewish community. German people began to see Jews as the enemy. When we see others as the enemy, we no longer have sympathy for them. In fact, there are changes in our brains when we think others are a danger to us.

This is what has been being used against President Trump and his supporters. This is why we are so divided. The Left continues to refer to the President as a Nazi, dictator, racist, xenophobe, fascist, etc. I think we all see Nazis as the enemy. The last ten or more years we have heard Trump and MAGA called Nazis repeatedly. This has resulted in numerous assassination attempts on the President’s life and violence against his supporters. So many we aren’t even shocked by it anymore. Think of that….we aren’t even shocked by violence anymore.

The Atlantic published a column entitled, “The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem” in its current April Issue. I suspect most people don’t need to read the article, the title is enough to confirm their belief.

I’m seeing this tactic being used locally. There are several PACs now in our small town posting on Nextdoor everyday, all day demonizing the Mayor and incumbent Council members. They have no evidence of their accusations but that doesn’t matter. The accusations (BIG LIES) are sufficient. Just as the legacy media doesn’t report anything that conflicts with their narrative that Trump is evil, and what they do report on is spun in the most negative way possible, the PACs in our town do the same. Twitter and Facebook banned the sitting President from their platforms. And as the media did to Trump, Nextdoor also won’t allow the Mayor or Council members to defend themselves.

The left has been using “words” to push the BIG LIES for a very long time. Calling illegal aliens “undocumented immigrants”, calling pregnant women “birthing persons”, having teachers not refer to students as “boys and girls”, calling pedophiles “minor attracted persons”, heterosexuals “cisgender”, prostitute “sex worker”, handicapped “physically impaired”, etc. In every case the intent is to change people’s perception.

Another practice the Left uses successfully is fear mongering. Climate Change is a good example. Even though not a single scary claim over the last 30 years has happened. They claim if we don’t completely destroy our standard of living the planet will die. It hasn’t and those who make predictions that the oceans are rising have beach front homes. More examples; If Trump moves our embassy to Jerusalem it will start WWIII. Or if Trump bombs Iran’s nuclear sites it will cause WWIII. He did both and no WWIII.

Fear mongering is being used here in PV, as well. Pictures of huge explosions posted on Nextdoor to cause people to fear a quarry in the middle of more than 2000 acres of open space. They say Council members who approved this are evil, greedy, people being paid off by developers, etc. Their goal is to use fear to motivate voters to vote out the incumbents and vote in their candidates. They don’t actually care about the quarry. They don’t live anywhere near the site. And it’s interesting those who live closest aren’t the ones complaining.

Beware of the BIG LIES and fear mongering. Look for their real goals and their end game.