Propaganda Against Churchill

@securemess|January 22, 2025 (3m ago)60 views

Propaganda Always Serves Power

One downside of democracy is that the public needs to be propagandised by the media to ensure public support: Bush and Blair’s “weapons of mass destruction”, the demonisation of Edward Snowden, or Trump’s “fine people on both sides”. The objective of the media propaganda is always the same: Lie to the public to serve power.

Tucker Carlson had Daryl Cooper, a self-proclaimed “historian”, on his podcast. Cooper claimed — at first slightly whimsically, then rather seriously - that Sir Winston Churchill was the chef villain of WWII.

No serious person would take Cooper’s claim seriously. Articles were quickly written by actual historians pointing out Cooper’s factual errors.

But what power, or attempt to gain power, does Cooper serve? That’s a much tricker question than debunking Cooper’s ridiculous claims.

Everyone to the Right of me is Hitler

The Left has been calling the Right “fascist” or “Nazis” for decades. Recent attempts to label right-wingers as “Hitler” have become completely unhinged, such as parts of the leftwing media calling Trump’s Maddison Square Garden rally a “Nazi rally”. Unsurprisingly, Biden and Obama were seen with Trump after the rally and before Trump’s inauguration. Are these the actions of men who believe that Trump is Hitler? No, don’t be stupid.

My thesis is that the Right are tired of being labelled “Nazis”, and hence there is a movement on parts of the Right to place Sir Winston Churchill, instead of Hitler, at the centre of WWII’s evil.

The Rejection of “Human Rights”

The evil of WWII saw western countries begin to take human rights seriously. However, recently “human rights” have been used to prevent illegal immigrants from being deported and to turbo charge climate change activism. The slippery slope, scope creep, or legitimate? You decide.

Many right-wingers have become skeptical of liberalism, with its focus on the individual over the collective. There is a growing movement of post-liberals and neo-reactionaries pushing to abolish liberalism, including limiting human rights.

My thesis is that the rejection of the post-WWII human rights consensus means removing Hitler as history’s chief villain. Without Hitler, the drive for human rights lessens.

The American Right’s Isolationism

Parts of the Right are skeptical, if not outright against, military intervention under all circumstances. The problem? America’s greatest modern-day success was helping to defeat Hilter.

My thesis is that American's greatest modenn-day success needs to be re-written for isolationism to become popular.