I have written many times in this blog how the far left loves to engage in the tactic of deciding on a particular sociopolitical point, and regardless of whether it's actually true and factual, they just repeat it over and over, again and again, for years and years. They just keep inserting the claim everywhere and repeating it, never letting it go. The goal of this is, of course, to make it true by repetition. It's classical tactic of: If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth. (In other words, when enough people start believing it to be true, it becomes so for all intents and purposes. It may end up in history books as a fact of history, even though in reality it's a complete distortion or fabrication.)
To be fair, though (and I have to look at the other side too, else I would be intellectually dishonest), the same tactic is often used by the right, by the conservatives, as well.
There are many examples, especially among the American conservatives, but one of the most prominent ones is that of climate science denialism.
This is the one that, for some reason (that I do not fully comprehend), they are most passionate about. From all of their questionable and mistaken beliefs, this is the one that they love to shove everywhere the most. This is the one that they just insert everywhere, even in contexts that have absolutely nothing to do with the topic, again and again. And they have been doing this non-stop for years and years.
Take, for example, this recent (as of writing this) video by Matt Walsh, where he speaks about the fact that a couple of years ago there was mass furor in Canada because of allegedly found mass graves of children on the grounds of some Catholic schools where (again allegedly) native children were forcefully "converted" into western culture, westernized, made to abandon their own culture. This "discovery" caused a massive amount of protests and vandalism, including the arson of a dozen Catholic churches.
Turns out that there were no mass graves at all. No bodies. When the supposed "graves" have been actually opened up by archaeologists, turns out there are no human remains there at all. The "mass graves" were discovered by ground-penetrating radar... which is a completely unreliable way to do that because it cannot distinguish anything at that level of detail. It can only distinguish very broadly non-uniformities in the ground. Which in this case turned out to be drainage ditches and rocks. No bodies, no bones, nothing.
Rather obviously the leftist media has been quite hush-hush about this.
All that is very interesting in itself. However, at one point Matt Walsh just had to mention climate change, completely out of nowhere. It had absolutely nothing to do with the topic in question, and it didn't really relate to anything, but he just had to once again insert his doubts about climate change there.
And this is by far not a unique rare case. He just loves to shove that in tons and tons of his videos. Often the topic of the video has absolutely nothing to do with climate change, but he just has to forcefully shove it everywhere.
Whether intentionally or not, whether consciously or not, the tactic is the same as with the leftist claims: Make it true by repetition. Keep the idea constantly fresh in your follower's minds and don't let them forget it. Slowly but surely make your followers activists for the cause (after all, when your followers keep hearing the claim over and over, they will themselves also start repeating the claim to others, often likewise in situations that have nothing to do with it.)
It's also a tactic of attrition against doubters (again, perhaps deliberately, perhaps serendipitously, doesn't really make much of a difference). Someone who is otherwise sympathetic to conservative values but actually accepts the claims of climate science might write a dissenting comment in the comment section of a couple of these videos, or a couple dozen of these videos, a hundred of these videos... but at some point they will just give up because it has no effect. And, perhaps, even some of the skeptics might start to doubt. Perhaps the seed of doubt will have slowly been planted in their mind, and perhaps even the skeptics themselves will start doubting the official claims about climate.
Which, of course, is precisely the goal. The reason to just keep repeating it over and over, again and again, for years and years. Make followers into activists, and perhaps even convert a few skeptics along the way.
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