>Kelley wrote:
> >
> > the way these things become unquestioned truisms, especially among the
> > right, is by virtue of the freakin rightnut media. i watch it happen every
> > single day on that politics list i sub to.
> >
>
>This is true but not quite to the point I think. You describe effective
>propaganda (and you are right that leftists cannot use a similar
>strategy), but you do _not_ describe hegemony, which is the entire set
>of social relations which makes such propaganda effective.
that's why i changed the subject line.