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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (190641)	10/10/2001 3:27:27 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (190641)	10/10/2001 3:32:49 PM
From: asenna1	Respond to of 769667

The essential task of propaganda is to use psychological skill to create a favorable atmosphere. As Schopenhauer says: "When the heart resists, the mind will not accept." The fundamental attitude of all successful propaganda is optimistic. He who allows pessimism in his own cause can expect nothing but uncertainty and resistance. But optimism means, in all circumstances, confidence! A good politician can accomplish little, if he faces a pessimistic populace which doubts his good will and even the practicality of his plans. On the other hand, it is clear that even the best propaganda cannot conceal constant political failures. Propaganda is only meaningful and believable when it can show positive results. Such then are the tasks of propaganda: it is the proclaimer of an idea, it undermines the positions of the enemy with all the means and forces at its disposal. It stands in the middle of life, in the middle of events, and draws the necessary consequences. Whether the means of propaganda are proper or whether it serves the facts or ideas is entirely irrelevant. The reality that propaganda faces is so confused and the conditions it faces so unnatural, the new idea which propaganda carries so much better, that it would be inexcusable weakness if propaganda did not use every at its disposal to bring down as rapidly as possible the rotten system it faces. Propaganda is evolutionary, the organization revolutionary. The word of propaganda becomes the deed of the organization, and the deed of the organization improves an intolerable condition.The task of propaganda is to explain to the people new ways and ideas, to interest the masses in events and to win their cooperation, Politics and propaganda cannot conflict with each other, nor can they run parallel to each other, rather they are inextricably bound to each other. Without politics there is no propaganda and without propaganda there is no politics. Good politics always needs good propaganda. Both have the same goal, the same direction, and the same thing is true of them as is true of an individual: "One moves in life in the direction one looks." No philosophy that doubts its abilities can guide a government to success. Propaganda, however, can persuade the people of the abilities of their government, and to their advantage. Propaganda and passion belong together. Great passion is as rare as great genius.The greater the passion, the more effective the propaganda. The Source: "Politische Propaganda," Unser Wille und Weg, 4(1934), pp. 323-332.