The scary thing about leftist propaganda is that it works

If you are one of the (very few) readers of this blog, chances are that you are a critic of the far left and likewise watch quite many anti-leftist YouTube videos and read the writings of critics. Perhaps even write such yourself. When one engages in watching, reading and even writing such criticism a lot, one may easily get the impression that society is pretty much divided into half: Those who accept the core tenets of the left (and sometimes everything they claim), and those who do not accept them and are critical of them.

In other words, that the vast majority of people are aware of the politics going on, and have an opinion on it (even if it's a very neutral middle-of-the-line opinion).

Unfortunately I don't think this is true. It's much more probable that the people who are political activists and/or are very acquainted with current sociopolitics and follow them closely are actually a small minority. The vast, vast majority of people don't care about politics, don't follow it, and in general have very little knowledge of what's going on in those activist circles, and don't even care to know because they aren't interested.

For example, in the United States there are hundreds of millions of people. It's unlikely that all of them or even a majority of them, closely follows the sociopolitical war going on in their country. They aren't interested in politics and don't follow it. They don't read political blog posts, they don't watch political videos, nor have political discussions with people (other than, perhaps, about who they might or might not vote for). The same is probably true of most if not all other countries as well.

So what is so scary about this? What's so scary is that people who are unaware of what's going on are very susceptible to political propaganda.

This is because when you aren't knowledgeable about a subject, and not very interested in it, you likewise don't have the knowledge to know if a claim eg. presented by a TV news broadcast is true or distorted.

When you aren't interested in a subject, you likewise have very little interest in even trying to find out if such a claim about that subject is accurate or not. Since most people watch TV news or read newspapers from time to time, and they have very little reason to doubt what's being said, there's a good likelihood they will just believe what they are being told. They don't really care to try to find out whether it's true or not, because they aren't really interested.

And what's even scarier is that current political propaganda, mainly spread by the mainstream media, is almost unanimously far-leftist. The far left has pretty much a de facto monopoly on massive political propaganda spread by the mainstream media.

Thus, when the mainstream media, the huge news channels that the vast majority of people watch even occasionally, keep repeating the same distortions and lies, chances are that a good majority of people will just believe them without much question. Thus, these lies become de facto truths and facts that most people just accept, believe and repeat without criticism and skepticism.

And given that the mainstream media just keeps repeating the same lies over and over, the more people they will eventually reach, even those who watch them very rarely. At some point such people will stumble across a broadcast where the lies are being told as if they were confirmed facts, which the viewer has no reason to doubt, nor interest in corroborating.

So, for example, when the mainstream media keeps repeating over and over that Trump is a racist, the majority of people believe it, because they can't be bothered to try to find out if it's true. When the media claims that Trump called Mexican immigrants "animals", the majority of people just believe it. When the media claims that Trump orchestrated the "insurrection" on January of 2021, the majority of people just take it as a fact, without even trying to research the subject in more depth. When the mainstream media claims that Kyle Rittenhouse was a far-right extremist who went to a protest with an illegal automatic weapon with the intent of murdering black people, they just believe it, because they have no reason not to. (And even the minuscule fraction that do a slight bit of research will just stumble across the corresponding Wikipedia pages, which just repeat the far-leftist mainstream propaganda with no criticism.)

I'm not trying to blame these people for being ignorant and misinformed, and thus easily misled. This is very understandable. Not everybody is interested in every single subject, and quite especially not everybody is interested in politics and find it extraordinarily boring and appalling. And that's fine.

The sad thing is that when people are not well informed, they are easily misled. It's the same thing as with all hoaxes, frauds, conspiracy theories and scams: When you aren't well-informed about them, you get easily fooled and start believing complete nonsense (and, oftentimes, are scammed out of your money).

Far-leftist propaganda preys on the natural tendency of the average person not being aware nor knowledgeable about these subjects. In fact, one of the main tactics of far-leftist activism is to keep the majority of people in the dark so that they don't get informed about the reality of things. The activists try to actively stop criticism from being widespread, so that people aren't exposed to it. They, naturally, only want their claims to be heard, and nobody else's. Because that's how propaganda is the most effective.