This piece is a deep dive into Trump and the right’s innovative use of Information Warfare to win the fights they should rightly lose based on traditional analyses. We must first lay some groundwork in Systems Thinking, but we think you’ll find it all interesting and useful.
Prefaced by his observations on voter behavior & what's going on in America, Senator Bernie Sanders e-mailed me 7 others of the public asking "how it's going" & "what's our feeling" about how the election's going...
In response, I quoted excerpts from your: “On Evil, Trump and Information Warfare” Revelatur Newsletter x Mark Hill & Corey Hill, (Jan 3, 2024)
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I chose to respond with an abbreviated cite taking 4 points from this article... then I added a 5th point. Which the Hills' or other stack readers might like to discuss?
The 4 cites from Revelatur Jan 3
1. evil genius Trump's greatest impacts & uncanny skill in info space…
2. influencer Trump's interconnections... including playing a purposeless neolib Democratic Party (that could've been dismantling the Republicans over the last 60 years...)
3. the need to dominate info space to attatch such a high cost to lies & such evident value to truth the public will fight for it... until wealth centers flip sides
4. a reason why propaganda works... until it unravels.
And finally, a diagnosis of my own; Point 5:
5. "America’s Radical Right- politicians (Trump unsurpassed among them) / religious leaders/ hate groups, + the Corporations & the Wealthy who enable them, have infected Americans with “Stockholm Syndrome”… Brittanica describes Stockholm Syndrome as a “Psychological response wherein a captive begins to identify closely with his/her captors, as well as with their agenda & demands.”
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Elaborating: “…It has also been documented in harmful relationships that involve domestic violence, incest, child abuse, cult membership, sports coaching, and war imprisonment.” …the only difference between Brittanica’s definition & a more complete diagnosis of America’s zeitgeist is the Radical Right has targeted infection on low-information voters having low-immunity to Stockholm syndrome… on a Sociological scale.
Prefaced by his observations on voter behavior & what's going on in America, Senator Bernie Sanders e-mailed me 7 others of the public asking "how it's going" & "what's our feeling" about how the election's going...
In response, I quoted excerpts from your: “On Evil, Trump and Information Warfare” Revelatur Newsletter x Mark Hill & Corey Hill, (Jan 3, 2024)
https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/170954
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I chose to respond with an abbreviated cite taking 4 points from this article... then I added a 5th point. Which the Hills' or other stack readers might like to discuss?
The 4 cites from Revelatur Jan 3
1. evil genius Trump's greatest impacts & uncanny skill in info space…
2. influencer Trump's interconnections... including playing a purposeless neolib Democratic Party (that could've been dismantling the Republicans over the last 60 years...)
3. the need to dominate info space to attatch such a high cost to lies & such evident value to truth the public will fight for it... until wealth centers flip sides
4. a reason why propaganda works... until it unravels.
And finally, a diagnosis of my own; Point 5:
5. "America’s Radical Right- politicians (Trump unsurpassed among them) / religious leaders/ hate groups, + the Corporations & the Wealthy who enable them, have infected Americans with “Stockholm Syndrome”… Brittanica describes Stockholm Syndrome as a “Psychological response wherein a captive begins to identify closely with his/her captors, as well as with their agenda & demands.”
https://www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome
^^^(note! NOT a live link; Copy&Paste this into your browser)
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Elaborating: “…It has also been documented in harmful relationships that involve domestic violence, incest, child abuse, cult membership, sports coaching, and war imprisonment.” …the only difference between Brittanica’s definition & a more complete diagnosis of America’s zeitgeist is the Radical Right has targeted infection on low-information voters having low-immunity to Stockholm syndrome… on a Sociological scale.
-John Ulloth