Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jun 14, 2023 12:47:18 GMT
Left/Right: French Parliament - No.
Unfortunately it is another lie, but a clever one none-the-less. There is a category of lying where you invent a contemporary movement and then you take things from history that were before your movement started and say, well hey, we did not start it but some Einstein well-respected bigwig from the past did or some obscure author coined the term. If you want another example here you can check the history of gay out if you like. Oh they say, people have always been gay, look at the classical world and so on.
So if it were not the French who invented Right-Wing, then who the hell was it. To answer this question we must go back to the time of the American war of independence. A lot of scholars say this was the real turning point for Britain. They say once we lost that our empire had past its prime and from then on it would be pure blight. Anyway, to win that war the Americans needed guns and lots of them. The problem only manifested after the war. The problem was that after the war it was too peaceful, so you had all these gun manufacturers and no buyers. It was at this juncture the gun manufacturers started a campaign to promote their guns to citizens for protection. Just why would you need such protection though if it were so peaceful and civilised? Recall this was the age where every American family went to church on Sunday. Thou shalt not kill => thou shalt not need a gun.
To answer this problem and to revive the declining fortunes of the gun industry, there was only one way which could work, and that was to lie. You could not possibly hope to lie with logic. I've just explained the logic here and it is easy enough for everyone to understand. So the gun industry did not use logic, they used emotion and fantasy. They created the image of the wild west and the idea to be a real man you need to be tough and in order to look tough you need a gun.
Anyhow I'm sure you know pretty much how it went from then on and how Hollywood helped to sell their guns, but one thing you might not be aware of is Goebbels studied American propaganda in the 1920s and then applied it in Germany in the 1930s. This then ushers in a new wave of Right-Wing.
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