"Dear Leader" Billboard Campaign
How do we know you are our beloved leader? Well, you're picture will be plastered all over the billboards and on the sides of buildings.
I was born at the beginning of the Cold War and lived to see it end in 1989 with the collapse of the totalitarian regime known as the Soviet Union.
One of the things that characterizes totalitarian governments is the cult of "dear leader" worship, which explains the need for pictures of "dear leader" to be plastered on big billboards.
The only other scenario where someone's portrait is plastered on billboards is during election campaigns or marketing campaigns, which are really the same thing - attempts to get you to buy/vote/support the man or woman in the portrait, or at least what he's selling.
Every once in a while, in a democracy, a "dear leader" billboard campaign has some other aim, an aim, which in fact, takes us closer to the worship, or the whipping up of worship, of a totalitarian figure.
Of course, I suppose it could be related to the coming November Mid-Term elections, which really could be a vote of confidence on his presidency. Perhaps the size of the thing is a clue about something, too. Or maybe it's been bought and paid for by the Republican Party. Or the people behind the "Miss Me Yet?" campaign. I'll leave to you to decide:
h/t American Power
I was born at the beginning of the Cold War and lived to see it end in 1989 with the collapse of the totalitarian regime known as the Soviet Union.
One of the things that characterizes totalitarian governments is the cult of "dear leader" worship, which explains the need for pictures of "dear leader" to be plastered on big billboards.
The only other scenario where someone's portrait is plastered on billboards is during election campaigns or marketing campaigns, which are really the same thing - attempts to get you to buy/vote/support the man or woman in the portrait, or at least what he's selling.
Every once in a while, in a democracy, a "dear leader" billboard campaign has some other aim, an aim, which in fact, takes us closer to the worship, or the whipping up of worship, of a totalitarian figure.
Of course, I suppose it could be related to the coming November Mid-Term elections, which really could be a vote of confidence on his presidency. Perhaps the size of the thing is a clue about something, too. Or maybe it's been bought and paid for by the Republican Party. Or the people behind the "Miss Me Yet?" campaign. I'll leave to you to decide:
h/t American Power
Labels: Democratic Party, Democrats, elitism, leftards, leftards and leftards, mid-term elections, Yanky politics
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