{"id":1727,"date":"2007-09-12T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/09\/12\/conservative-psychological-manipulations\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T14:54:27","slug":"conservative-psychological-manipulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/09\/conservative-psychological-manipulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Psychological Manipulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These videos by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eidelsonconsulting.com\/\">Roy Eidelson<\/a> examine several ways that American conservatives manipulate public opinion &#8211; and how this psychological warfare can be countered and resisted. Not flashy at all &#8211; he should probably have someone else do the voiceover &#8211; but nicely argued.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Dangerous Ideas: How Conservatives Exploit Our Five Core Concerns&#8221; (above) describes how today&#8217;s conservatives have used appeals to our core concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness in order to further a narrow ideological agenda that actually benefits very few while leaving most of us worse off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>[googlevideo]http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=844699642769511518[\/googlevideo]<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here he examines these same psychological framings as they apply to war-mongering (special emphasis on Iraq).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Resisting the Drums of War&#8221;  describes how the misguided and destructive war in Iraq was promoted by targeting our concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. The continued occupation of Iraq&#8211;or an attack on Iran&#8211;will likely be sold to us in much the same way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ttcV6NIvkqE[\/youtube]<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These videos by Roy Eidelson examine several ways that American conservatives manipulate public opinion &#8211; and how this psychological warfare can be countered and resisted. Not flashy at all &#8211; he should probably have someone else do the voiceover &#8211; but nicely argued. &#8220;Dangerous Ideas: How Conservatives Exploit Our Five Core Concerns&#8221; (above) describes how today&#8217;s conservatives have used appeals to our core concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness in order to further a narrow ideological agenda that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/09\/conservative-psychological-manipulations\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,17,5,10,33,3,32,14],"tags":[2242,116,4257,350,99,6182,4258,4259,4260,4261,6181,4262,4263],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-armchair-activism","category-alien-nation","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-language","category-politics","category-video","category-virus-related","tag-distrust","tag-framing","tag-helplessness","tag-injustice","tag-iraq","tag-language","tag-psychological-manipulation","tag-psychological-warfare","tag-roy-eidelson","tag-superiority","tag-video","tag-vulnerability","tag-war-mongering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}