Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Alex G]

the “great lie theory”

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2086.cfm

"...the political tactic where a leader fabricates “great lies,” then “eternally” repeats them until a significant portion of the population comes to accept them as truth. The Bush dictatorship also discovered a residual benefit of the “great lie theory”: People are often so myopic or so embarrassed by their gullibility that, even after the “great lies” are exposed, they would rather reward the liar than acknowledge the lie.

This benefit, however, has also revealed the disquieting reality that far too many people in the United States, arguably the most powerful nation on earth, do not require legitimate reasons before they will acquiesce to the wasting of billions of tax dollars, and the sacrificing of thousands of lives, in wars based upon nothing but lies.

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George Bush admitting to spreading propaganda

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“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” ~ Bush in Greece, New York, yesterday