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Skybird · 03-15-13, 11:17 AM

I illustrated that people often, if not always, vote against realties they do not like, and that people often, if not always, fall for sweet words and luring catchphrases that promises them what they want to hear. Same about Berlusconi. I did not compare him to Hitler - I showed that people fall for words even if they are obvious lies.

Stalinism today is absolutely socially respectable in huge parts of the Russian society. People fall for the cult. Nobody holds a weapon at their sleeves to like a mass murders who is responsible for having killed millions of Russians himself.

My criticism of democratic states base son what is being said in the parallel thread the past days. It also bases on the trend visible in the EU and the US for growing totalitarian control by centralised power bodies, and on the fact that with the change from monarchies to democracies there came the change from limited wars over property to to total wars over ideology and social orders, and that democracies by far do not score better than tyrannies before when it comes to the blood toll imposed by them on mankind. Democracies just do not fight that much amongst each other and tend to not engage in getting their hands bloody themselves, but run policies that lead to the bloodshedding being committed by others, in the name of democracies economic selfinterests. Some would even argue that democracies have in their indirect ways have caused more people getting killed, than explicit dictatorships. - Again, people let that happen, and do not look closer.

Ten years ago, in the US it was possible to betray constitutional checks and balances, to launch a war of aggression that was founded on lies, manipulated propaganda and pure material interest by a clique of hopeful industrial profiteers. Most people bought the lies with great enthusiasm. Some still do today.

Sweet words is what voters want to hear. Promises meeting their expectations, even if they are unsustainable. A gain in the present, is more attractive than an outlook for a possible bigger gain in the future for which first labour and investements have to be made and put at risk to go lost. Whether it is Hitler , Stalin, Berlusconi or Bush, does not matter for explaining the very simple mechanism behind their propaganda and their lies. - Economists talk of the individual's LINK time preference But not just businessmen think about this, but the ordinary man on the streets does, too - just on a more personalized basis.

03-15-13, 11:17 AM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I illustrated that people often, if not always, vote against realties they do not like, and that people often, if not always, fall for sweet words and luring catchphrases that promises them what they want to hear. Same about Berlusconi. I did not compare him to Hitler - I showed that people fall for words even if they are obvious lies. Stalinism today is absolutely socially respectable in huge parts of the Russian society. People fall for the cult. Nobody holds a weapon at their sleeves to like a mass murders who is responsible for having killed millions of Russians himself. My criticism of democratic states base son what is being said in the parallel thread the past days. It also bases on the trend visible in the EU and the US for growing totalitarian control by centralised power bodies, and on the fact that with the change from monarchies to democracies there came the change from limited wars over property to to total wars over ideology and social orders, and that democracies by far do not score better than tyrannies before when it comes to the blood toll imposed by them on mankind. Democracies just do not fight that much amongst each other and tend to not engage in getting their hands bloody themselves, but run policies that lead to the bloodshedding being committed by others, in the name of democracies economic selfinterests. Some would even argue that democracies have in their indirect ways have caused more people getting killed, than explicit dictatorships. - Again, people let that happen, and do not look closer. Ten years ago, in the US it was possible to betray constitutional checks and balances, to launch a war of aggression that was founded on lies, manipulated propaganda and pure material interest by a clique of hopeful industrial profiteers. Most people bought the lies with great enthusiasm. Some still do today. Sweet words is what voters want to hear. Promises meeting their expectations, even if they are unsustainable. A gain in the present, is more attractive than an outlook for a possible bigger gain in the future for which first labour and investements have to be made and put at risk to go lost. Whether it is Hitler , Stalin, Berlusconi or Bush, does not matter for explaining the very simple mechanism behind their propaganda and their lies. - Economists talk of the individual's LINK time preference But not just businessmen think about this, but the ordinary man on the streets does, too - just on a more personalized basis. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.