Haha, in all seriousness though, one of the limitations of baiting emotional outrage is that people get exhausted eventually. At the start of the war everybody was really invested in it, but then after a few months they started getting tired. Life moved on, and now most people will still say they’re supporting Ukraine and regurgitate some tropes for you, but you can tell their heart’s not in it anymore. Once people stop caring then propaganda stops working, they see it, but it doesn’t really mean anything to them anymore.
Yeah, eventually blaming everything on “the enemy” leads to a new problem, people start to question why the government allows “the enemy” to get away with all this stuff, and they stand to lose the next election due to seeming weak and impotent. But once they do, if they backtrack on the whole scapegoat thing, they look even weaker, so they’re stuck just insisting all their problems are caused by invisible foes and can’t do anything to stop them.
Haha, in all seriousness though, one of the limitations of baiting emotional outrage is that people get exhausted eventually. At the start of the war everybody was really invested in it, but then after a few months they started getting tired. Life moved on, and now most people will still say they’re supporting Ukraine and regurgitate some tropes for you, but you can tell their heart’s not in it anymore. Once people stop caring then propaganda stops working, they see it, but it doesn’t really mean anything to them anymore.
Yeah, eventually blaming everything on “the enemy” leads to a new problem, people start to question why the government allows “the enemy” to get away with all this stuff, and they stand to lose the next election due to seeming weak and impotent. But once they do, if they backtrack on the whole scapegoat thing, they look even weaker, so they’re stuck just insisting all their problems are caused by invisible foes and can’t do anything to stop them.
indeed