This week's quote stems from an address President Coolidge provided to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on January 17, 1925. Coolidge was speaking on the subject of propaganda.
Of education and real information we cannot get too much. But of propaganda, which is tainted and perverted information, we cannot have too little.
When one thinks about recent 'causes' that have swept across Minnesota and the nation (especially recent SCOTUS rulings), how can one say this statement doesn't have any merit?
I cannot, sir. He said what is.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, President Coolidge was spot-on. The Left's efforts to raise the destructive practice of homosexuality to equal footing with monogamous heterosexual marriage could only thrive if they, through propaganda, could pull the wool over the people's eyes regarding the deleterious physical and mental health effects of sodomy: call anyone who would point out the facts homophobic, knuckle-dragging bigots, shout them down when they reason with you, and bristle at the suggestion that anything but pure hatred could motivate someone to disagree on a reasoned basis with them. They have done that, and the people have been suckered. Anthony Kennedy is a perfect example of a propaganda tool: he even discarded federalism as a justification for striking down DOMA to reach further and brand supporters of heterosexual marriage as hateful, bigoted people--including President Clinton and a bevy of Democrat congressmen. At no point in history has a people known so much, yet understood so little.
ReplyDeletePretty verbose for Cal.
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