Re: "It isn't working. The British public isn't buying." Bullseye! Most of us couldn't care less. The Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on February 26, 2019, 10:47 am, in reply to ""It isn't working. The British public isn't buying." Bullseye! Most of us couldn't care less. The"
A recent poll said 38% of people think corbyn is antisemitic. Even if that poll is skewed (it surely is), and even if all 38% are tory voters anyway, it does work: it has worked to keep talk of the actual policies that really scares them of the agenda. It creates a general backdrop that helps feed into the 'he's useless/chaotic' narrative, leading to the low numbers who think he'd make a good prime minister (more skewed polls, but still). These people are well-acquainted with the techniques of advertising and pr. I agree that with many people (more and more) this stuff doesn;'t work directly, but it still works indirectly to a large degree - it's like people who watch adverts on telly and say 'well it doesn';t affect me: i've never bought anything because of an advert' - but it's not there to encoruage conscious decisions, it's to create associations which come to bear subconsciously at the moment of choice. If this shit didn;t work in aggregate it wouldn't get billions spent on it. Even so, i'm not fatalist about it - it's not hopeless (we are many etc), but it doesn;t help to underestimate the power of what we're up against when trying to bring about even a modicum of change.
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