Pushing the propaganda
by digby
Brave New Films has put together an excellent short primer on how the right wing gets its propaganda out into the ether using the current lies about Social Security as the example.
And they have Bernie Sanders doing the explaining, which is very cool.
BNF is taking on the Kochs specifically and they are major kingpins in this operation. But the conservative infrastructure project has been underwritten for years by a variety of wealthy benefactors. This goes all the way back to the Powell Memo, but their infrastructure is so well entrenched decades later that it has an organic quality that’s taken for granted in the political bloodstream. It’s important to take it apart and explain it so that people can see this.
This is a good one to send around to your relatives.
If you haven’t read the Powell Memo, you can read the whole thing here.
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