Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Best Propaganda? The Commies Do It

 Stacey McCain--no relation to the Arizona Scandal--has excellent insight into Communist propaganda, given to him by a Hollywood kid who knew all about it.

...What was the effect of Communist influence in Hollywood? I asked that question of Billingsley when I interviewed him years ago and he said that while Communists didn’t succeed in getting much pro-Communist propaganda into movies, they were more successful in keeping anti-Communist messages out of movies. If you think about this a bit, you realize that there is a reason why, to most Americans, totalitarianism is always associated with Hitler and the Nazis, rather than with Lenin, Stalin and the Communists. There have been very few movies and TV shows that accurately portrayed Communism as a deadly menace, and certainly the pro-Communist attitude of many people in Hollywood had some influence in this tendency of popular entertainment to downplay the danger of Communism. Or, for example, think of Ronald Reagan’s career. He had been a very successful actor and popular among his peers, which is why he was elected SAG president. But once he emerged as an outspoken opponent of Communism, his movie career evaporated and it became common for the media to label him a “B-movie actor” (which is a damned lie, because he had previously starred in plenty of A-list movies)....

Stacey coulda thought even more on that bit of info and realized that THAT is why the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the mil-intel outfits concentrated on what SHOULD NOT BE published on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

They learned from the Communists.

We should learn from the anti-Commies, with weapons if necessary.

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