For so long now, we’ve been faced with an ever-increasing barrage or self-righteous, virtue signalling, Liberal/Leftist propaganda that it’s hard to imagine how we got here, where it all came from. Let’s have a look at how this type of propaganda works, starting off with an example from the world of commercial marketing.
Back in the 1980s there were the Jack-the-Lad beer brands. Most of these beers were very ordinary and so the challenge was to differentiate them, to target market segments with appealing propaganda. The legions of young men in their late teens/early twenties, propping up bars and drinking lager, were a promisingly lucrative segment and so the campaign began. The adverts at the time were full of wise cracking, smart-arse characters who could clear pool tables and effortlessly pull gorgeous young birds; of course, they’d only drink a particular lager.
The above image appealed to many working-class young men around the country, so campaigns like this sold millions of pints of beer as these impressionable youngsters subconsciously strived to become their role model. The reality was that, unfortunately, many of these young men were none too bright, spotty, obnoxious and drunken youths that no woman in her right mind would go anywhere near.
People, and we’re all guilty of this, tend to live in bubbles. Often there is a very stark difference between the way that people perceive themselves and the reality of what they really are. The marketing industry is very skilled at manipulating people by exploiting this discrepancy and politicians use the same techniques. People will cling to their bubbles for dear life as without them, they would have to be content with the far more mundane realities of life. Popping someone’s bubble can be far more painful than physical violence.
Let’s take a very old friend of mine as an example. One day as a teenager, as I was riding along on my motorcycle, I noticed my friend being bullied by some thug that had pulled him over. The thug was starting to punch my friend, a self-proclaimed pacifist and who stood there helplessly and let himself be punched. Whether pacifism is an excuse for cowardice, I’ll let you decide, I myself couldn’t ever conceive of a situation where I stood by and let someone attack me.
As I pulled over to investigate, the thug decided that he didn’t like the look of me and rode off. As for my friend, as the Politically Correct age of the Liberal/Lefty doctrine got going, my friend embraced this; it suited his pacifist or cowardly personality perfectly. My friend felt cool, virtuous, sophisticated, cosmopolitan, he soon learnt to despise me and hung around with like-minded Lefties. He had found the perfect shield for his own inadequacies.
Of course, there are now millions of people like my old friend. If you have a chip on your shoulder, an axe to grind or you just wish to find someone else to blame for your failures, the Liberal/Lefty bubble will provide you with the perfect place in which to hide. As long as Liberalism lasts, these people will never have to face reality, they will never have to deal with the realities of life and their very average humdrum existence.
This is why we find the lefty bubble so hard to pop but reality will catch up eventually. I must give Margaret Thatcher credit for this quotation:
“The trouble with Socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.”
Never a truer word said and I think we are at the stage where the money is just about to run out and it’ll be nothing to do with Brexit no matter how much Lefty propaganda will have us believe that it is. More on this another time.
The more reality catches up, the more our open borders increase our population beyond the elasticity of country’s economy to cope and our health and social services collapse, the more the indigenous population of our country is driven into poverty by Socialist politics, the more the Lefties will ensconce themselves in their bubble.
These Liberal/Lefty pacifists will do anything to deny the reality of who they really are, they will not accept the fact that they’ve been sold a pack of lies. They will never want to accept the responsibility for turning an advanced, civilised society, one of the greatest countries in the world, into a Third World slum: they will deserve all the misery that they get when reality catches up.
The current but thankfully receding age of Liberal/Lefty Socialism has provided so many people with a kind of easy virtue, a cloak of sophistication and an escape from their averagely mundane lives: when their bubble pops there will be trouble.
On the 1st of February, the Lefty bubble may well finally pop, if not it won’t be far off. I’ve long thought that as the age of global Socialism unwinds there will be chaos in the world. You only have to look at the continuing riots in France, Hong Kong, South America and many other places to see that trouble is already here and will get much worse.
The people of the world have been under an illusion for so long, reality is going to be very painful. However: you can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs.
The coming turmoil is something that we must go through. Whatever happens, however difficult things get, in the last few very difficult years, we’ve made advances towards regaining our freedom that back then we would never have imagined.
As Viv would say: keep battling on, we’re actually winning.
Flyer ; “On the 1st of February, the Lefty bubble may well finally pop..” Would be very grateful for some clarification of why 1st Feb in particular, what specifically you have in mind. Sorry to be a bit slow on the uptake! I know some very very nasty things will crawl out of the woodwork both the vassalage treaty and other legislation which has so far passed under the radar plus the UN Global Compact for Migration will kick in, but I wanted to check whether my own surmises are correct.
When we wake up on the first of February, it’ll be the first morning in over forty years that we’ve woken up to a sovereign nation. We won’t yet be completely clear I know but it is an enormous first step in the right direction.
The tide has turned against Socialism and globalism it’s going to be a long fight though, whether it’s on 1st February or sometime after, the Liberal / Lefties are going to have to realise that their dream is over, they are the wrong side of history. For now the Lefties cling to their bubble but pop it will.
Many thanks for the clarification Flyer. I hadn’t been sure whether you were focussing on the positive or the negative side of things. Well I really hope the tide really is turning against the loony left, they have done so much damage over the decades.
Thanks for that input ‘Flyer’, and yes I remember the beers that the ‘successful’ used to drink ! – A little before your time of the 80s, in fact mid 60s through to mid 70s, I was in a group of guys who played Pub Skittles. – We played for beer, and I remember asking the barman when it was my turn and on the losing side, for 20 pints of ‘Ordinary’ ! – It was acceptable bitter, and playing skittles seemed to encourage us to sink many pints, plus the price was sensible at that time ! – Very happy days back then !
I think it boils down to being aware of advertising, – I realised from schooldays, that ‘fashion following’ was a mugs game, and that only those who followed it would be seen to have a hole in their wallets ! – The noisy Remain folk will keep chuntering after the end of this month, and with less and less, continue through to the end of this year. – 2021 should see us clear of the EU at long last !,- Mark my words, our success as a Nation will kill off this pessimistic fashion. – For once, fashion will get the bloody nose that it deserves, along with being anti British !
Supporting the Conservatives is a bit weird for me, although I have always been a ‘Floating Voter’. – I was MD of my own Company for many years, and then a Shop Steward in a multi national Company, so politically I make my own decision upon each GE ! I joined UKIP for some years, until they ratted on Democracy, and now intend to hold PM Johnson to real Brexit, otherwise I will be off again with my vote ! – Shame about UKIP, as they had some good ideas !
Mike – don’t get me wrong, I love beer.
Read mark and learn.
I regard the following as one of the most effective phrases, in the circumstances of the reason for Brexit that I have ever seen written.
“The more reality catches up the more open borders increase our population beyond the elasticity of country’s economy to cope and our health and social services to lapse the more the indigenous population of our country is driven into poverty by Socialist policies the more the lefties will ensconce themselves in their bubble”
This phrase covers most of the aspects and ills suffered by the country being FULL UP, the result of many Blair socialist years of mass cross border immigration of biblical proportions, which ha ve as the author said impoverished the poor and already low paid in particular, teamed with Diversity mania the indigenous population has been truly shafted.
Unfortunately I don’t really see Boris bringing this. mass immigration scandal to a swift end, especially when I heard on “the papers”last night that these super immigrants will contribute their fair share to our economy.
Does nobody realise they may earn enough to pay taxes and other charges, but the government of all shapes do not allocate sufficient, or any funds to infrastructure.
No I don’t trust Boris either, the Slug I call him. Let’s face it, we’d be very silly to trust any politician after what we’ve been through, all we can do with Boris is use him while he’s taking us where we want to go and them dump him as soon as he starts to play up. Democracy these days seems to be all about choosing the least worst option, the TPTB make absolutely certain that we don’t have any good choices.
As for immigration, any schoolboy knows that you can’t squeeze a quart into a pint pot and yet under a barrage of Political Correctness, the dumbed down masses are incapable of realising or accepting this simple fact. As I said in the article, their bubbles will pop when one day when they are finally and inescapably confronted with the frightening, miserable reality that they’ve helped to create.
You import the Third World, you become the Third World, it’s as simple as that and our politicians have done it to us on purpose: including Boris Johnson.
IMHO the leftie/liberalism first of all infiltrated the classrooms. We have a teacher in the family, for whose ‘superior’ views I feel a deep rooted antipathy I was fortunate enough to be educated before this infiltration began so I can tell the difference!
The onset of ‘bread and circuses’ so-called entertainment on TVs up and down the land (unwatched by myself I hasten to add) has had huge effect on the intelligence quotient of millions!
Tony Bliar’s mantra of “educashun’, ‘educashun’, ‘educashun’ ushered in an ever increasing reduction in the real quality of true education, ie the ability to use ones common sense to distinguish between fact and fantasy. Thus was propaganda on a huge scale allowed to turn susceptible minds into ‘person of virtue’.
Orwell had a handle on what was coming. Animal Farm and 1984 have truly come to pass!
The schools are a big part of it, I signed up to do a teacher training course some years ago, thinking that I’d learn something about teaching; what I found was appalling. These teacher training colleges don’t like people that are too bright, that can think for themselves, the course was a little bit about teaching but mainly about brainwashing with Political Correctness: frightening and disgusting.
I’m glad my children are grown up, I would never sent them to a state or even the majority of private schools, they need burning to the ground.
Whatever characteristics that dismay us of the liberal left let us be absolutely clear in recognising the immense success they have had in their ‘long march through the institutions’. Over a period of 50 years they have got their people into place in every government body in the land in the most senior positions and are able to exert immense influence on the poltical agenda. And those who may not be ideologically driven? Well, how could you keep your job in the public sector if you rock the boat? It is career suicide to go against the prevailing orthodoxies of the day?
We have a hell of job on to get ahead of this game – look what a struggle we are having getting a clean Brexit and as for changing the face of Parliament we have hardly made any inroads at all.
I have long thought the Left’s Achilles’ Heel, apart from the lack of a humour gene and an irony bypass, is its inability to stop. Their moral self-righteousness is insatiable, unstoppable, a way of life not a genuine purpose; it needs constant feeding, forever. Even the smallest concession will bring them no satisfaction; they simply move the goal posts and keep on whining. But it has now reached a point where they are living parodies.
Witness: There was a short discussion on Sky this morning about cervical cancer and the effectiveness of screening, etc. Great. Nothing wrong with raising awareness. But – whether it was fear of litigation, remembering a case in Canada where a biological male sued because he was not offered screening, or simply avoidance of Twitter abuse – the ‘expert’ continually and cowardly referred to the target audience as ‘anyone with a cervix’!!
‘Anyone over 25 with a cervix will get a letter offering screening.’
‘Anyone with a cervix needs to overcome any potential embarrassment…’
Satire in overdrive.
The alternative 4th dimension eg..up and down, forwards and backwards and sideways and behind you is reached By tatering yourself ( obtained by the mathematical formula orientated minus Oriented -equals = tatered . meaning kernackered or lacking in oriental positioning. Is it anything to do with this ?
However You are abolutely correct. It is true. However it can be stopped by Grannies Rule” Never give power to a committee ( never form or support an Executive committee )
Reminds me of ‘good ole bbc’ – car kills five in Germany . . .airplane flies into tower . . . brave snake saves fish from drowning . . . and similar