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  • Written by: Jason Stanley
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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How Propaganda Works

Written by: Jason Stanley
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us - not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-20th century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy - particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality - and how it has damaged democracies of the past.

Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the 20th century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality. Drawing from a range of sources, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States.

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Misleading Title, Partisan Discussion Paper

This book is a long form New York Times Article. That’s great if you like that sort of thing, but the title leads you to believe that it illustrates the mechanics of propaganda. Spoiler, it does not.

Jason makes verifiably false claims like “Republicans do not draw votes from blacks or Latino’s.”

The trouble is it takes the limited, typical U.S. is the centre of the universe and Republicans are racist approach and filters everything through that lease.

The irony of this book is thick in that Jason deliberately gives partial, misleading factors or verifiable falsehoods to shape your view and get you to think the way he wants. In short, this book is misleading propaganda. I say deliberately because a person of his education couldn’t possibly lack that much self awareness to have made so many mistakes.

It is clear, however, that he will be rejected by the alt-left since he only half heartily kisses the ring and maybe we can welcome him back to the mainstream once that happens.

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