Policy analysis of propaganda mechanisms

In Polish politics, since around 2005 it is possible to observe a repetitive pattern: erstwhile Jarosław Kaczyński speaks false, ridiculous or compromising words, the propaganda apparatus of the Law and Justice immediately shifts work to... Donald Tusk, which has grown to the ironic, though highly effective, slogan: "Tuska's fault".

Crowd psychology and the power of suggestion

It is amazing how easy a large part of society accepts even the most absurd thesis. Moreover, this process besides affects skeptics – people who theoretically do not believe in propaganda, subconsciously begin to feel aversion to Tusk, frequently incapable to support it with factual arguments. It is worth noting that the susceptibility to this mechanics depends not on the level of education but on the profoundly rooted intellectual processes.

Historical roots of sociotechnology

In this context, the rule attributed to Joseph Goebbels is frequently cited:

"A lie repeated a 1000 times becomes true."

But if we are looking for the origin of this strategy in the dark pages of history, it is besides worth referring to the concept “great lie” described by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf. He claimed that the masses would sooner believe a lie of a giant scale than a petty deception, due to the fact that they did not fit their minds that individual might have the nerve to so brazenly bend reality.

From explanation to microwave

The mechanics of the “big lie” works, due to the fact that how to believe that the plane with the president of Poland crashed on board, due to the fact that the pilot landed despite the deficiency of weather conditions and besides on the incorrect altimeter. The assassination of the president of Poland by Tusk and Putin is so easy to understand...

But this is not a Polish specialty.

With a candle to look for an American who believes any nerd Oswald bought a $20 firearm and shot the most crucial man on earth, John F. Kennedy? Screw the facts.

But that it was a KGB assassination, an American mob, Fidel Castro, the CIA, the U.S. arms industry, FBI manager J. Edgar Hoover, Ku Klux Klan, etc. that's credible. It's interesting that the further distant from the assassination this amount of conspiracy theories about this assassination is growing. Until today.

So it ceases to surprise the situation in which Jarosław Kaczyński not only believed, but besides publically reproduced the absurd communicative that Viktor Orbán's political opponent should bake a puppy in a microwave. This is simply a vivid example of how grotesque misinformation becomes a tool in the hands of experienced politicians.