It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.