Has anyone else noticed that there is a narrative in mainstream media that seems not only inaccurate, it seems a mirror image of what actually is? At times the current narrative seems actually backward, and upside-down. In this bizarre world of opposites anything seems plausible…This is BRANDING. BRANDING is a powerful tool in marketing, moves huge companies to huge profits, gets us to buy things we probably don’t need, and sometimes aren’t good for us, and are at times down right destructive to our well being. Masters of BRANDING spend billions in maintaining, upgrading and manipulating a BRAND to do what? Sell! We are being sold daily, hour by hour, and minute by minute, and we know it. We even accept it and in the end we still buy stuff. The proof that marketing works is in the “what is,” and the “what is” is that we buy. Government has always been about BRANDING. The interesting fact, yes I used the word “fact,” is that political BRANDS have flipped flopped so much that the average person doesn’t know the truth any longer and “buys” the a specific BRAND not for what it does, rather for what the BRAND says it does. Don’t get me wrong. There will be no moralizing here. BRANDS are meant to sell nothing more, and nothing less and everybody uses them. However when a BRAND openly uses Marxist, or Fascists tactics, and labels any opposing group Fascists there is a direct contradiction. The same is true of racism. When one group, any group, demonizes another group because of their skin color or ancestral background and then calls the others “racists”something very powerfully afoot. BRANDING. As we look back in our own recent history to communist takeovers that have left over 100 million dead, or the Nazi regime that took the lives of 16 million, this mass murder is done through BRANDING and allows people to accept and even feel good about it. Wikipedia says: Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder. Democide is not necessarily the elimination of entire cultural groups but rather groups within the country that the government feels need to be eradicated for political reasons and due to claimed future threats. This Democide is happening today, right now in Communist China. Here’s an example of the current, active branding the Chinese government is using today in response to accusations of actions taken against the Uyghurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority: “China has rejected the report as “wholly without factual basis” and claims its mass detention of Muslim minorities is part of a “vocational training” program to counter extremism.” DemocracyNow.org This is not unique to Communist China. In our own country one BRAND is publicly calling for the “reprogramming of conservatives.” Make no mistake, this is how it all starts. When we speak of FREEDOM we must not be fooled by clever BRANDING. We must look at the PRINCIPLES of FREEDOM itself and judge. Is what they are saying what they are doing, and if what they are doing is not a true PRINCIPLE of FREEDOM it is something else… Where does all this lead? Ask the Uyghurs in China with 1 million muslims being held in secretive detention camps. The detention, re-education and killing of millions of people is not a PRINCIPLE of FREEDOM. Period. Look deeper than the BRAND you are buying. Look past the packaging, and clever words and look for the BRAND of FREEDOM! Allen Hughes Life Defense #allenhughes #lifedefense #realfreedom
