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Sez77's avatar

Great post.

Governments have learned that the way to manipulate the Public is to appeal to their emotions.

So many people will vote Yes based simply on manipulation of 'White Guilt'.

But the emotion-ploy is just as effective when used against them.

Speaking with a 20-something colleague today, she said "I didn't know much about it, and was going to vote Yes until I saw this video, and now I've converted about 5 other people to No by showing it to them".

The video was an aboriginal woman talking about not dividing us by race.

My young colleague didn't want to hear about nefarious Treaties and UN Land grabs. But this hit home for her.

(Hey, whatever works).

It showed the power of appealing to emotions, and how easily the Public can be swayed by it.

Governments know this all too well, and fully exploit it.

But it's also an effective 2-way street when used against them.

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Mark's avatar

there is no doubt in my tiny, extreme-far-right, neo-nazi- anti-gov, anti-vax, conspiracy-theory filled-lunatic mind that Liebler is the controller of the strings in 'federal parliament' and has been since at least the Hawke days.

too much 'coincidence' of filthy rich Joos taking over entire swaths of Australian Cities and Corporate interests for i to think otherwise.

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