The Sánchez government uses the propaganda methods of the Nazis
In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power and appointed Joseph Goebbels as Minister of Popular Education and Propaganda. Goebbels summarised his propaganda method in 11 principles, which Sánchez government’s communication replicates. Today the penetration of the Internet and propaganda means that the amount of users of a given activity has become a quality guarantee; as if the population’s support would ensure excellence or moral rectitude. The Principle of Unanimity (PUG) states that it is necessary to convince lots of people to think like everyone by creating a feeling of unanimity. The mass media that support the government invade us with this principle. The flock sentiment flourishes: what the majority do is good.
Prevalence of the mass responds to the Principle of Orchestration: repetition of ideas from different perspectives that converge on the same concept. Propaganda must be limited to a few tirelessly repeated ideas: equality, feminism, social shield. Propaganda converts the amount of sufficiently repeated messages into reality, despite them being lies or desires. President Sánchez identifies transparency with the number of the government’s TV viewing hours (Principle of Popularisation: the mass’ receptive capacity is poor). By the Principle of Simplification and a Unique Enemy, the rival is individualised as a unique enemy: the extreme rightwing. With the Principle of Renewal, pieces of information are constantly transmitted at such a rate that when the rival responds, the public is interested in something else: pensions, taxes, Monarchy law, environmentalism, gender equality mantras, etc. With the Principle of Transposition, the rival is blamed for one’s own mistakes or defects by responding to attack with attack: the government attributes successes to itself and blames its rivals for what is wrong. Accordingly, it states that it has saved lives by imposing a 3-month state of alarm, but blames PP for COVID-19 deaths, health cuts or for being disloyal. Quantitative propaganda justifies the PUG and what is massive being useful. Quantity replaces truth, excellence or what is moral (which is non-existent). What is correct is not what the majority must do, but what the mass does is correct. This is de facto substitution, what the mass should do is replaced with what it actually does, what is moral is replaced with propaganda, law and justice with consumed fact and desire: it pardons separatists and squatters occupying homes. One propaganda tyranny effect is totalitarian practice against the population that does not support the governing majority. This responds to the Principle of Silencing: silence and cover up all news favouring the rival. Concealing thousands of deaths and images of coffins; censuring the government’s criticisms. Sánchez’s government acts against Catholics and liberals (Law on Education), and against the self-employed by simply denying direct aid that the rest of the free world provides. Consequence?: increasing closure of thousands of small-sized firms and more unemployment.
Nazi propaganda was designed to mobilise expansionist Germany and has nothing to do with Sánchez government’s survival plans, which would be unable to face not even Morocco in a military sense, and merely aspires to remain in power as long as possible. How long can its Nazi propaganda model last? This model is good for the government because it has no moral message to offer the country. So it continuously deceives the population using empty messages about artificial equalities. It says something today, but the opposite tomorrow. The government is what it is today. Yet if Rivera had reached a pact with PSOE, he would now be Vice-President. This Orwellian PSOE has no national project other than to remain in power with its soft-approach dictatorship. The economy is about to explode, the duration of this coalition government will depend on how long it will resist and there will be another European bail out, which will mean new elections. This will obviously leave the country ruined, which is what always happens when PSOE no longer governs. Its duration could have also depended on the ballot box results of the 14-February Catalan elections. Put your seatbelts on: a rough ride ahead.
Post published in Las Provincias