Thread by @HeatherMoAndCo, The political right doesn’t offer a better life for ordinary people, especially [...]

The political right doesn’t offer a better life for ordinary people, especially not for those marginalized. Nor the fiscal responsibility they claim to care about. So they use a domestic version of techniques employed in malign influence operations.

A thread. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

The most successful propaganda & disinformation campaigns are not the ones that invent out of whole cloth. Rather, to achieve lasting goals, the more skillful of these operations, will exploit legitimate issues & preexisting beliefs.

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Skillful propaganda campaigns will weaponize those elements to create a narrative desired by the perpetrators of the influence operation.

The very components of an open society that we value, are inverted & used against our better interests.

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Let’s take #WEScandal, for example. Many of us have legitimate issues with big charities, myself included. I think they all need to be examined more closely. But is going on a mission to destroy 1 & engaging in nonstop character assassinations of those associated, a good thing?

The hypocrisy of #CPC in this regard is quite stunning. The Harper gov’t targeted the charitable status of charities critical of his gov’t. ( https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/07/15/stephen_harper_intimidates_charities_into_silence_goar.html)
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All while allowing front group non profits & charities receiving $$ from wealthy donors like the Koch network, ie The #FraserInstitute & #ManningCentre ( https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pulpit-and-politics/2019/09/death-david-koch-reminder-who-bankrolls-canadas-right)
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Death of David Koch a reminder of who bankrolls Canada's right

Newspapers have recently carried obituaries on the death of David Koch, the U.S billionaire. Through Koch Industries, David and his equally wealthy brother Charles controlled the second-largest

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pulpit-and-politics/2019/09/death-david-koch-reminder-who-bankrolls-canadas-right

....for engaging in lobbying & covert political activism on behalf of wealthy private interests, all while claiming otherwise ( https://pressprogress.ca/right-wing-charities-report-zero-political-activity-again/)

It’s">https://pressprogress.ca/right-win... therefore pretty rich for the #CPC to be projecting their own behaviour onto others wrt to #WeCharity. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

Right-wing charities report zero political activity…again

For at least the fifth year in a row, right-wing organizations report no political activity while uncertainty remains for many progressive charities

https://pressprogress.ca/right-wing-charities-report-zero-political-activity-again/

So singling out #WE, is really about something else. The attacks on #WECharity are a means to an end. As is the besmirching of members of the Trudeau family. All cannon fodder in a hypocritical weaponized political takedown.

It’s not issues with WE that #CPC cares about.

It’s the propaganda fodder they want.
What do #Benghazi #SNCscandal
#Burisma & #WEscandal all have in common? They’re all examples of manufactured scandals that inflated legitimate issues, weaponized them & used them to disseminate propaganda & disinformation.

The #GOP playbook

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