This is going to be the first of a long series of posts aimed at helping folks like you understand how activists, influencers, politicians,and pundits talk about social problems. he political sphere is full of nonsense and deliberate obfuscation. This is the first of a series of posts that focus on, well, on propaganda. Not on how it works or why the MSM is propaganda or anything like that. This series is about the ways that politicians and pundits mislead people with a variety of shady tricks. Beware of Availability Entrepreneurs For every issue, there are groups on both sides misrepresenting the opposition and elevating marginal voices to where they seem to represent mainstream views. These people are called availability entrepreneurs. They are the dope dealers, "get rich quick" hucksters, and law of attraction kooks for the social world. They feed us what we want to hear and give us evidence that:
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